THE VICTORIAN SENSATION

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 130, 1 March 1928, Page 9

THE VICTORIAN SENSATION

CLERGYMAN ACCUSED OF WIFE MURDER THE CORONER’S VERDICT GRIGGS COMMITTED FOR TRIAL t>Y Telegraph.—Press association. Copyright. (Rec. February 29, 11.25 p.m.) Melbourne, February 29. After further evidence had been given regarding the relations between Griggs and his wife, and his wife being in good health when she returned from Tasmania, the Coroner found that Mrs. Griggs died from heart failure as a result of arsenic poisoning administered by her husband, and found him guilty of murder. Griggs was committed for trial. In a letter to his wife’s mother, Griggs, after describing his wife’s sickness, says that following a short sleep he had gone to look at his wife and found she was dead. He adds: “It was a really beautiful way to go. She knew nothing of pain or weariness, but just fell asleep and woke in Heaven. Who shall say it was not better so ? Ethel is now lying in the most beautiful part of the Omeo resting place.” In another letter he says: “There is great comfort in knowing Ethel was a Christian and that we have the Christian’s hope and duty which is the first part of that Heavenly home to which all are drawing nearer day by day.” He says he is sending her mother a few things which she will treasure—her daughter’s Bible and hymn book.