ACQUITTED.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 20 December 1907, Page 2

ACQUITTED.

TIIE MURDER OF EMILY DIMMOCK. WOODS PROVES AN ALIBI. A POPULAR DEMONSTRATION. | Received midnight. London, December It). An assemblage of ten thousand outside the Old Bailey acclaimed the acquittal of Robert Wood, the young artint, who wad accused of the murdev of Emily Diinmoek at Canipdentown. An alibi was proved. Two witnesses testified they saw the woman Dimmock with a man, who was not Wood, after midnight on the night of the crime. '

Wood's relatives, testified that he slept at home, and a neighbor stated he saw Wood enter his homo towards midnight. Westcott, a railway man testified that lie himself was the man who McKowun, a carman, mistook in St. Paul's roatl, towards 5 o'clock in the morning, for prisoner.

Wood testified that he had lied, not wishing to be dragged into the case, lest his friends should know he had associated with a woman like Dimmock. Mr Justice Grantham, In summing up

favorably to the prisoner, emphasised the fact that the evidence was entirely circumstantial.. It was one of the most remarkable criminal trials in England, certainly the most remarkable of his time. There was no *direct evidence against Wood. The latter ha'd led a double life. He was untruthful, and had endeavored to get others to lie for | hiin. He had lied throughout, his

conduct giving point to such evidence as there was against him. The jury was absent 15 minutes,