WIFE MURDER ALLEGED.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 November 1920, Page 5

WIFE MURDER ALLEGED.

GREENWOOD TRIAL CONTINUED. HUSBAND'S OTHER LOVES. Ss Telegraph.—Press Asia.—Copjrrlglit. London, Nov. 3. At the Greenwood trial, the Crown counsel mentioned that Mrs. Greenwood died after drinking from a bottle of wine. The buttle disappeared without trace. It was suggested that Greentt'nod had put arsenic in the wine. Later in the day Mrs. Greenwood was taken seriously ill, showing symptoms of arsenic poison. Greenwood" delayed going for a doctor, and then talked so long to the doctor!, sister that his daughter bad to fetch him. A letter was read from Greenwood to the doctor's sister after his wife died, stating that she was the one he loved most in the world and offering marriage. Counsel suggested that this was not a genuine oiler, as two days before lie had notified the registrar of his intention to marry Miss .Tones, whom he married two months after the death of bis 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 deaj*. She knew of no difference between .the Greenwoods on her account. She diet not get Greenwood to write the letter regarding the proposal for the purpose of righting her before the world. She asked him what he meant, by writing the letter, and he replied that there was nothing in itUnited Service and Renter,

POISON IN THE BODY. DEATH DUE TO ARSENIC. Received Nov. 5, 7.20 p.m. London, Nov. 4. To-day's evidence in the Greenwood cutte.- comprised mainly that of experts, ivho were of opinion that death was due to arsenic, taken soma hours before death. Sir Edward Marshall-Hall's 'crossexamination, revealing the closest study of the positions in relation to the murder, aimed at showing that arsenic waß 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 S=ir Edward Marshall-Hall and a police superintendent concerning the tetter's notebook containing Greewood's statements. Sir Edward suggested that leaves had been removed containing portions of the statement, and the superintendent retorted indignantly that counsel, by fingering the book carelessly, could make it appear as if a leaf was torn out,—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.