MUNN MURDER TRIAL

Southland Times, Issue 21092, 26 May 1930, Page 7

MUNN MURDER TRIAL

EVIDENCE FOR THE DEFENCE. JURY TO VISIT MUNN’S HOME. (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, May 24. The murder trial was continued to-day. The evidence for the defence was continued and Dr Kenneth Mackenzie said he could not conceive any normal person taking more than one dose of strychnine. It was possible in a case of suicide but not in • a case of murder. -Dr W. H. Parkes said he once accidentally took a substantial amount of strychnine and he had volunteered to give eyid-... ence. Witness described his convulsion. He said from the first to the last of the • convulsions the attack lasted about two hours. He was normal after four hours. Cross-examined by Mr Northcroft, he said there was no strict rule about the duration of the attacks. The bitterness of stychnine was so great that there could be no mistake. It was about six minutes after taking the strychnine that he felt numb and five minutes later the first convulsion came. A surveyor gave evidence that lying on the bed where Mrs Munn lay he found it fairly easy to open the drawer in which the strychnine was afterwards found. The Crown Prosecutor recalled Mrs Brown, a neighbour of Munns, who denied that she had had a quarrel with Mrs Munn. Dr Dudding was also recalled. The Court adjourned till Monday, when counsels’ addresses will be heard. The jury is to visit Munn’s home this afternoon.