COMMITTED ON MURDER CHARGE.
LETTERS TO .HIS - ; r ‘ MOTHERTN-LA^ (Received Wednesday, Midnight.) MELBOURNE, Feb. 29. After further evidence had ; been given regarding the relations between Griggs and his wife, also as to his wife being in good health when she returned from Tasmania, the coroner found that Mrs Griggs died from heart failure as the result of arsenic poisoning administered by husband and found him guilty of murder Griggs was. committed for trial bn a charge, of inujrdor. In a letter to his wife’s mother Griggs, after describing his wife’s sickness, says that following a short sleep ho had gone to look at his wife and found" 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.. .Who shall say it was not better so. Ethel is now lying in the most -beautiful part of Omoo resting place.” Th 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 »ays he is sending her mother a few things which she Will treasure —her daughter's Bible and hymn book.
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 1 March 1928, Page 7
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218COMMITTED ON MURDER CHARGE. Levin Daily Chronicle, 1 March 1928, Page 7
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