CAMDEN TOWN MURDER.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 9010, 20 December 1907, Page 5

CAMDEN TOWN MURDER.

ACQUITTAL OF WOOD

A REMARKABLE TRIAL. '

Received December 20, 12.5 a.m

LONDON, December 19,

Ten thousand persons outside Old Bailey acclaimed the acquittal of Robert Wood, a young artist, accused of the murder of Emily Dimmock, at Camden Town. An alibi was-proved. Two witnesses 'testified that they saw 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. A neighbour statad that he saw Wood enter his home towards midnight. Westcott, a railway man, testified that he himself was the man who McKowan, a carman, mistook in St. Paul's road, towards 5 o'clock in the morning, for the prisoner. Wood testified that he had lied, as he did not wish to be dragged into the case lest his friends would know that fie associated with women like Dimmock. Mr Justice Grantham, in summing up favourably 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 had led a double life, was untruthful, and had endeavoured to get others to lie for him. He had lied throughout, his conduct giving point to such evidence as there was against him.

The jury were absent 15 minutes, and brought in a verdict of not guilty.