THE GREENWOOD TRIAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3620, 5 November 1920, Page 5

THE GREENWOOD TRIAL.

EVIDENCE IN POISONING CASE. Received 8.55 a.m. LONDON, Wov. 4. At the Greenwood trial, the Crown j counsel mentioned that Mrs Greenwood died after drinking from a bot- : tie of wine, and the bottle disappeared without a trace. It was suggested that Greenwood put arsenic in the wine. Later in the 3ay-Mrs Greenwood was taken seriously ill and showed symptoms of arsenic polsorr= ing. Greenwood delayed going for the doctor, and then talked so long to the doctor's sister that his daughter had to fetch him. A letter was read from Greenwood to the doctorfs sister, after Kis wife died, stating that she was the one he loved most in the world and offering marriage. Counsel suggested this was not a genuine offer, as two days before he had notified the registrar of Ms intention to marry Miss Jones, whom he married two months after the death of his wife.

Mary Griffiths, the doctor's sister, gave evidence that Greenwood proposed to her and she refused him. She, denied that she detained Greenwood on the night of his wife's death. She knew of no difference between the Greenwood's on her account. She did not/ get Greenwood to write a letter regarding a proposal of marriage for the purpose of righting her before the world. She asked him what! he meant by writing the letter, and be replied that there was nothing in it.