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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2068, 20 December 1907, Page 3

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remarkable criminal trial YOUNG ARTIST ACQUITTED ON A CHARGE OF MURDER. AN ALIBI PROVED. GREAT PUBLIC DEMONSTRATION. .United Press Association —Copyright (Received Dec. 19, midnight.) LONDON, Dec. 19. Ten thousand people outside the Old Bailey acclaimed the acquittal o ■Robert M ood, a young artist, clnuged with tlio murder of Emily Dimmoek, at Camperdown. An alibi was ■proved. . . , , . ~ Two witnesses testified that Aiey saw Dimmoek with a man who aas not M'ood after midnight on the night of the crime. . . , Wood’s relatives test-died that he slept at home. A neighbor stated that bo say. Wood enter his homo towards midnight. A VVcstcott railway man testified that ho himself was the man whom AloKeowan, a carman mistook m Bt. Paul’s-road towards 5 o’clock m the morning for the prisoner. M’ood testified that he had h c 'E ■not wishing to be dragged into iho case lest his friends should know he associated with women like Dim mock. Mr. Justice Grantham, in summing up favorably to the prisoner, empliasised the fact that the evidence was entirely circumstantial. it "'■)* , on ° of tho most remark ible criminal trials in England—certainly the mostremarkable of his time. There was no direct evidence against Mood, iho ■latter had led a double life, was untruthful, and had endeavored to get others to lie for him. He had lied throughout, his conduct giving point to such evidence as there was against jury was absent only 15 minJltCSr ________