WELSH MURDER TRIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 86, 11 April 1922, Page 5

WELSH MURDER TRIAL.

ARMSTRONG IN THE BOX

SUICIDE SUGGESTED. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 1 p.m.) LONDON. April 10. Great interest is being maintained in the trial of H. R. Armstrong, the Welsh solicitor, who is accused of having murdered his wife by administering arsenic. The case is now in its second week, am! is not expected to linish before Friday. The court was crovded to bear the opening of the case for the defence. Mr. Curtis Bennet submitted that although the defence had not the onus of proving it, the probability was that Mrs. Armstrong had committed suicide. She had just come home from the lunatic asylum, and finding that she did not improve but was becoming worse mentally and physically, she was prepared to do something desperate. The prosecution had entirely failed to show any motive for murder. Mr. Justice Darling said counsels contention would open up an entirely new case. Armst'.*on£ gave evidence in a calm manner with much clearness. He said his relations with his wife were always of the happiest nature. She iirst showed delusions in August last. Shortly after that the doctor suggested that the razors and a revolver should be removed from the bedroom, and that was done. Armstrong said there was not j the slightest truth in the suggestion I that he had administered arsenic to his wife.—(A. and N.Z. fable.)