CAMDEN TOWN MURDER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13626, 20 December 1907, Page 5

CAMDEN TOWN MURDER.

REMARKABLE TRIAL ENDED. WOOD ACQUITTED. , By Telegraph.Pie*e /ksosiation.— (Received December 20, 12.30 a.m.) London, December 19. A crowd of 10,000 people outside the Old Bailey acclaimed She acquittal of Robert Wood, the young artist, accused of the murder of Emily Dimmock, at Camden Town, in October. An alibi was proved, and two witnesses testified that they saw Miss Dim mock with a man, who was not Wood, after midnight on the night of the crime. Wood's relatives testified that he slept at his homo that night, and a neighbour stated that lie saw Wood enter his home towards midnight. A railway man named Westcott stated that he himself was the man who McKowan, a carman, mistook in St. Paul's Road, towards five o'clock in the morning, for prisoner. Wood testified that he had lied to the police, not wishing to be dragged into the case, lest his friends should know that he associated with women like Dimmock.

Mr. Justice Grantham* summing up favourably to prisoner, emphasised the fact that the evidence was entirely circumstantial.

It had been, His Honor said, one of the most remarkable criminal trials that had place in England, and was certainly the most remarkable of his time. There was no direct evidence against Wood. The latter had led a double life, was untruthful, and had endeavoured to get others to lie for him. He had lied throughout the case, his conduct giving point to such evidence as there was against him.

The jury, after an absence of about fifteen minutes, returned a verdict of not guilty.