THE GREENWOOD TRIAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3621, 6 November 1920, Page 5

THE GREENWOOD TRIAL.

i FURTHER EVIDENCE. LONDON, Nov- 4. To-day's evidence in' the Green•wood case was mainly that of experts, who were of. opinion that death was due to arsenic taken some hours before death. ; Mr. Marshall Hall's cross-examina-tion, revealing the closest study of the positions in relation to murder, aimed at showing that arsenic was present in minute quantities in many substances commonly used. Experts found no traces of morphia when the body was exhumed ten months after death.

There were heated passages between Mr. Hall and the police superintendent concerning the latter 's notebook containing Greenwood's statement. Mr. Hall suggested that leaves had been moved containing portions of the statement. The superintendent retorted indignantly that Mr. Hall, by carelessly fingering the book, had made it appear as if a" leaf had been torn out. Received 12.5 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 5. Mr. Marshall Hall, in opening the defence in the Kidwelly poisoning case, intimated that he would call expert evidence to show that the death of Mrs. Greenwood was due to~~acute gastric attacks, and not to arsenical poisoning. Greenwood's daughter would give evidence that she took a glass of the same wine as her mother for lunch, and another for supper.