FLY-PAPER POISON.

■a f HUSBAND ACQUITTED OF MURDER d CHARGE. a After a trial lasting eight days, Noel 0 Montague White, aged 27, was acquitted at tho Criminal Sessions at Maritzburg, Cape ] Town, on a charge of tbe attempted murder of his wife by administering arsenic in , cocoa. j The circumstances were practically simi- j lar to those of the celebrated 'Maybrick , case. It appeared from the voluminous evidence that White was on active service for a few months, and on his return his behaviour towards his wife changed. There were some quarrels and estrangements, and • the prisoner was ordered to leave tbe home of his wife's mother. £ White accordingly went to live with a | friend near by, and it was aUeged that he attempted the murder of his wife, of whom he was exceedingly jealous, by administering arsenic. The details as puMished were 1 briefly this:—Whlto purchased in May last ■when flies were not numerous, some arsenical fly-papers. These he was alleged |to have soaked ln water and then squeezed : out into some cocoa at his lodgings. 0 A native boy at the house said he saw c | White mix a brown powder and pot some p ot it in an envelope, which he then pnt ln v his pocket. t ! Subsequently White was alleged to hava> * | gone to the house where his wife was staying, aud to have crept round to the window and placed the powder Into a cocoa tin which -was always kept near the window r ard used only .by his wife. t I The wife, unknown to her -husband, left ? 'the same day for a trip up-country, and the same night Sirs. Johnston (the sister-in-law . of White) and her two children went to tbe house on a visit. Singularly enough, they, with a Sirs. Ikln, of Durban, had .cocoa, although they usuaUy only drank j coffee. Shortly afterwards the four people {named were taken violently ill. I Subsequently detectives searched the ' room where White was staying, and -there they found some half-dozen arsenical , . papers which appeared to have been wetted and squeezed out as one wrings out a towel. The Jury return a unanimous verdict of "Not guilty."