GREENWOOD TRIAL

Hokitika Guardian, 9 November 1920, Page 3

GREENWOOD TRIAL

! AUSTRALIAN X N.Z CABLE ASSOCIATION}

(Received tuis day at, 1.30 p.m.) rONDON, Nov. 8

At the trial of Greenwood, the Judges are summing up and a verdict will be given to-morrow. To-day was given up to Counsels speeches. Interest is unabated. Betting on the result is widespread. In the north of England books are being compiled with professional thoroughness. In mining districts even women are laying .odds.

Marshall Hall in a three and a-half hours’ brilliant speech, emphasised the doctor’s doubts regarding the cause of death. Two doctors of high reputation gave evidence that she died from morphia, not arsenic. Tiie defence justified suggesting that Doctor Griffiths had made an unfortunate mistake and gave a dose of Fowler’s solution at eight o’clock which accounted for the presence of arsenic, and completed the disaster by administering a whole grain of morphia later, instead of half a grain. The Crown had not then proved a motive for murder. During the closing passages of the speech Greenwood was overcome and warders assisted him from the dock.