GREENWOOD TRIAL

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 36, 6 November 1920, Page 7

GREENWOOD TRIAL

EVIDENCE OF EXPERTS AS TO CAUSE OF.DEATH ACCUSED'S PROPOSALS OF MARRIAGE Br Ttleirraiih—Pre«i AMoclatlon-Copyrleht London, November 3. At <116 trial at Carmarthen of Harold 'Greenwood, who is charged witili the murder of liis wife, counsel for the Crown mentioned that Mrs. Greenwood, died after drinking from a bottlo of wine, and the bottlo hud disappeared without a trace. [In suggested that Greenwood had put arsenic into uhe wine. Later in the day Mrs. '"ireenwood was taken seriously ill, and the symptoms were of arsonie poisoning. Greenwood delayed going for the doctor, and then talked so long to the doctor's sister that his daughter had to fetch him. A leiter was read from Greenwood to tho doctor's sister, written after his wife died, stating that she was the one he loved most in the world, and offering her marriage. Counsel suggested thwi this was not a genuino offer, as two days before lie had notified tho Registrar or his intention to marrv Miss Jones, whom he married three and a half months after the death of his wife. ' Mary Griffiths, the doctor's sister, in her evidenco,' said that Greenwood proposed t'.o her, and she refused him. She denied having detained Greenwood on the night of his wife's death. She knew of 'no differences botwecn tho Greenwoods 011 her account She did not get Greenwood to write the letter regarding tile proposal for the purpose of righting her before the world. She asked him what, ho meant by writing tho letter, and lie replied, "Tlicro is nothing in it." -IJeutor.

(liec. November 5, 7.20 p.m.) London, November i. To-day,'s evidence in the Greenwood rase is mainly that of experts, who" ivere of'opinion that death was-due to arsenic taken some hours before death. Mr. Marshall Hall's cross-examination, which revealed the closest study of the positions in relation to the alleged murder, aimed at- showing that arsenic was present in minute quantities in many' substances commonly used. Experts found no traces ot morphia when the bodv was exhumed Hon months nftor death. The.ro were heated passages between Mr. ITall and the police superintendent concerning the lottor's notebook containing Greenwood's statement. Mr. Hall suggested that leaves had been removed containing portions of th.T f*fltement. The superintendent' retorted indignantly that Mr. Hall, by fingering the book carelessly, had made it appear as if a leaf had been torn out.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.