THE NAPIER WIFE-MURDER CASE.
NAPIER, December 15. The trial of McLennan for wife murder commenced to-day. The Crown Prosecutor, with Mr Oornford, prosecuted ; Messrs Lascelles and Carlile appeared for the dofence. The case is likely to last at least a week. The dey was occupied in taking the evidence of Olement Tancred, Lee, Miller, Wm. Tait (from South Canterbury), and Mrs Sinclair (of Mornington, Dunedin). Their evidence was of an indirect nature, and chiefly referred to the relations of the prisoner towards his wife before they came to Napier. The testimony was generally of a favorable character, though Mrs Sinclair declared that when Mrs McLßnnan was staying at her house she was in good health, except once after McLennan had visited her. She also went away with her husband once, and returned in ill-health. At that time, as when in Napier, Mrs McLellan believed herself to be pregnant, and prepared baby clothes. Mr Tancred's evidence showed that prisoner could have obtained arsenic on the Btation. This, it will be remembered, was the poison found in her stomach. Dr. Caro deposed to treating her for pregnancy. I
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Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1816, 16 December 1879, Page 2
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