WIFE'S DEATH.
. KIDWELLY MURDER TRIAL EVIDENCE FOR THE DEFENCE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Nov. 5. Sir E. Marshall-Hall, opening the defence in the Kidwelly poisoning case, intimated that he would call expert evidence to show that the death was due to acute gastric attacks, not to arsenical poisoning. GruenwoodVs daughter would gh|: evidence that she took a glass of the same wine as her mother for lunch, and another for supper.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
Received Noy. 7, 5.5 p.m. London, Nov. 6.
At tile Kidwelly trial, Greenwood, cross-examined, declared that the police superintendent's notebook, purporting to contain his statement in reply to police inquiries before the pxhumation, was not the original notebook, or pages had been substituted for others torn out. The statement had been mutilated by omissions and additions, and his signature was forged. The nurse (old witness his wifcdied from morphia pills. He told the doctor just before the exhumation that he made a mistake in giving morphia pills, which were too strong for his wife. The doctor replied: "Morphia pills are not injurious." The doctor, re-called, denied that Greenwood ever spoke to him about the pills. The nurse, re-called, denied telling Greenwood that the pills were too strong. The prisoner's daughter, aged 22, gave evidence that she drank burgundy at luncheon with her mother from the bottle out of which the prosecution alleges the prisoner administered the fatal dose of arsenic. Her mother became ill after tea time. Witness had another glass of burgundy at supper from the same bottle, and suffered no ill effects. The police bad never asked her for a statement regarding the events of which she gave evidence. Sir Edward Marshall-Hall, for the defence, pointed out that Greenwood, if he had/been guilty, would have obliterated traces of the poison by cremation. The accused, under examination for four minutes, had denied causing the death. He was not on affectionate terms with his present wife during the deceased's lifetime. The latter had an income of £OOO a year, which went to her children. The present wife had nothing. Colonel Toogood, London County Council toxicologist, stoutly opined that death was due to morphia.—Alls.•N'.Z. Cable Assn.
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