MAREO MURDER TRIAL

Evening Star, Issue 22364, 13 June 1936, Page 3

MAREO MURDER TRIAL

FURTHER EVIDENCE ON VERONAL VAGARIES COURT ADJOURNS TILL MONDAY [Pur Unitbd Press Association.] AUCKLAND, June 12. When the trial of Eric Alaroo was resumed in the afternoon Aloira Esnie Aleissncr, a married woman, of Havelock North, said that in September, 1930, she had collapsed. She had been sleeping badly for six months before barbitono was prescribed for her by a doctor, and pills were obtained. Witness described taking the pills. During the night she remembered waking up as though in a dream and feeling for the pills, which she thought were on a pedestal by the bed. ; She remembered getting up and searching the room. The next she remembered was humping into the telephone, and then she found herself in the bathroom. She remembered getting on a high stool to roach the medicine chest. She opened the cupboard and searched for the pills, which, she eventually found. She did not know that the pills had been shifted to the bathroom. Witness could remember taking them, but could not remember how many. Fran/. Meissner, husband of the previous witness, described putting the pills in the bathroom and later finding the box empty. He had given his wife only two pills. Witness said his wife had been asleep for about four days. The court adjourned until Alonday after having heard the evidence of the wardrobe mistress in ‘ The Duchess ol Danzig ’ operatic production, Alice Frances Smith, who said that on the final night Airs Mareo smelt of liquor. The last witness for the defence, a medical man from Wellington, will be heard on Alonday.