THE KIDWELLY MURDER.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16985, 6 November 1920, Page 4

THE KIDWELLY MURDER.

• « : — CROWN'S ALLEGATIONS. <*■ LONDON, November 4. At the Kidwelly murder trial, counsel for tho Crown mentioned that Mra Greenwood died after drinking from a bottle of wine. The bottle disappeared, without trace. It was suggested . that Greenwood put arsenic ™ the wine. Later in the day Mrs Greenwood was' taken seriously ill, there bein "• symptoms of arsenic poisoning. Greenwood delayed going for a doctor, and then talked so long to the doctor b sister that his daughter had to fetch. 1 tihe doctor. , „ _ , . A letter was read from Greenwood to the doctor's sister, written after his wife had died, stating that she vas *ne one ho loved most in the world, and offering marriage. Counsel suggested 'that this offer was not a genuine offer, as two days before, Greenwood had notified the Registrar of his intention to marry Miss Jones, whom he married three and a half months after the death of his wife. ~ Mary Griffiths, the doctor s sister, gave evidence that Greenwood proposed • to her. She refused him. She denied that she detained Greenwood on the night of his wife's death. She knew of no differences between the Greenwoods on her account. She did not get Greenwood to write the letter TegardinfT' tihe proposal for the purpose of righting her before the world. She asf;ed him what he meant by writing the letter, and he replied thrtf, there was nothing in it. EXPERTS ON CAUSE OF DEATH. (Received November oth* .7.20 p.m.) LONDON, November 4. To-day's evidence in the Greenwood base was mainly that of experts, who were of the opinion t'hat death was due to arsenic taken some hours before death. SiT E. Marshall Hall's crossexamination, which revealed the closest studv of poisons in relation to ijnirder, aimed at showing that arsenic was present in minute quantities in many sub- ' stances commonly used. The experts j found no traces of morphia when the body was exhumed ten months after death. There were heated -passages between Sir E. Marshall Hall and the. police superintendent concerning the latfbr's notebook containing Greenwood's state- s ment. Counsel suggested that leaves had been removed containing portions of t)he statement. The superintendent * retorted indignantly that counsel, by | fingering, the book could I make it appear as if a leaf had been tom out. *