ILFORD MURDER CASE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 23 December 1922, Page 5

ILFORD MURDER CASE

DISMISSAL OK APPEAL" t, (By Electric Telegraph. —Copyright.j (Australian 'Sr, N Z. Cable Association.) , LONDON, Dec'. 22; Justices Hewarf, Darling, and Salter dismissed Bywaters’s appeal, which was based on the grounds, of Shearman’s refusal to take. the, two trials separately, inadmissibility of letters, misdirection ,of .the jury, and a- verdict against the weight of evidence. Counsel argued that tlie letters, confused the issue. The Court did not. call the Grown in reply. Justice Hewact said their lordships regarded the case as squalid, and a rather indecent case of lust; and adultery, in which Thompson was cruelly murdered. Deceased was the only person in the case who excited sympathy. The relations between Bywaters and Thompson were most'culpably intimate. There passed between them remarkable and deplorable : correspondence of the most mischievous and most venomous type. Thera was no ground whatever in their opinion for interference with Justice‘-Shearman’s decision to try the prisoners' together. Bywaters heard the result unmoved.