THE OMEO CASE

Evening Star, Issue 19804, 1 March 1928, Page 4

THE OMEO CASE

DEATH OF MRS GRIGGS THE CORONER’S FINDING. MELBOURNE, February 29. After further evidence had been given regarding the relations between Griggs and his wile 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. COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. MELBOURNE, February 21). Griggs was committed for trial on a charge of murder. 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 that she was dead. He adds; “It was really a beautiful way to go. She knew nothing of pain or weariness,' but just fell asleep and woke in heaven, and 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 that Ethel was a Christian, and that we have the Christian’s hope, 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, including her daughter’s Bible and hymn book.