CHARGE OF MURDER.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 589, 18 August 1909, Page 5

CHARGE OF MURDER.

' PERTH CHILD-POISONING CASE. . \. . j ; (By Tclcefapli.-l'rcas Attn'clnllun.>-pop7rlßht.) .] \ .; Porth, August 17.. . j At the inquest on the exhumed bodies of i j tho three Morris children, tho jury found ■ • that Arthur Morris (who was buried in 1907) ! died from an irritant poison-administered by ! tbe woman B-endcll, and thut Thomas Morris, '. | father'of the children, was an accessory to j tho act. -. ■ . .■''.■ .J Both Rendell and Morris were arrested on .• a charge of wilful murder. The evidence dis- 1 closed that repeated sales of spirits of salts . j had been mado to Morris and members of ' j his family. '"; ■; . ''■ ''.-'.. j ' [Tho Morris children supposed to be poisoned ..' , j were Arthur Joseph Morris,'awd 15, buried in ■ July, 1907; and Aiinin 1 May (9) and Olive Lit-. . I lian (7), buried, in' July, JOOS.' It was cabled on j August 12 that'.twa brothers.of tho dend chil- i■■ "j dren allege-that the woman Eondcll, who was ' I living with tliom. gave spirits of salts to their j doad brother with which to gargle his throat.] .

i The location ■of the prison reformatory ;j farm for the South Island has-not yet been . ' j decided upon. Mr.' Waldegravo, Under-Sec- i retary for Ju'&tico, and Dr. Hay, Inspector J for Prisons, recently insi>octod tho site which ! has been offered on condition that prison j labour is granted in connection with tho ; work of reclaiming that and adjacent land j on tho Otatara side of. tho estuary at Inver- ' • cargill. It is understood that" these officers j aro preparine a modified scheme, which, j after.having Iw en submitted to tho Minister j for Justice,, will, .bd tho .subject of a report by tho district engineer. If the scheme is ; ■ < | found to bo practicable, it will bo iniinodi- , | ately submitted'to Cabinet. ' ' . ■ | WHAT THEY THINK OF US IN ENGLAND. , ' Below is an extract from- a letter which was j received a week ripo by tho manager of Messrs,- j Murdoch and Co.'s Wellington branch. .■'.'■ "I am 'writing to tell yon that your little | country is absolutely > the finest I havo over I set foot on. I have now been practically nil ' over ; tho world, and w except for England. I which, of cßiiree, is Home, I could think of ! no place in which I would rather.livo than ■ | your beautiful island home, Now Zealnnd. I have nnother reason why I am thankful that I I visited your country, and that is, as you ■ know, I was suffering from that dreadful. ' scourge Ezcoma, a complaint which I have had since I was a boy. You will ■ remember re- ! commending- mo to try Ecd .Cross Ointment for . ■ I the trouble. I bought a box of it while in i Auckland, before leaving for Home, and by ' the time'l arrived in England I was absolutely '■ ■ . ! enrod... My friends hardly loiew mo when I • :| returned." ''j Tours very sincerely, ! ••■'••:,■ .-' FRANGIS J. TB-AVIS. > P.S.—Send me a dozen or so tins, which I ! wish to give to my friends., ' F.J.T ' ; Johnston, Chemist, Cuba Street, sells RED C?Q.SS OINTMENT, tlie, Migtty Healer. i Price, Iα fid, . . ■"■ , ■■'■■■. i