THE TRUNK MURDER.

Otago Witness, Volume 23, Issue 2684, 23 August 1905, Page 24

THE TRUNK MURDER.

THE MURDERER EXECUTED.

LONDON. August 15. Arthur Dev-ereux, a chemist's assistant, who was recently sentenced to death for the murder of his wife and two children, has been executed.

The murder was of a particularly gruemib? character. Mrs De\cieux, whose ago was 31 years, and her twin sons, aged one year and 11 months, disappeared in February lasr, and the bodies, which were packed in a trunk, were removed from De\oi"'Oii\'s residence in Milton avenue. Harlesclen. to a furniture depositor}- in North- west London, where they were discovered in April. Devcreux. in the meantime, had gone to Coventry, where he was engaged as a chemist's as-istant when ai rested. At the preliminary trial expert evidence showed that Mrs Devercux and her children had died from morphine poisoning. Devereux, who contended that h;a wife poisoned hereelf and that he'found her and the children dead in siated that he paelced the bodies in the trunk because he couid not bear to face an inquest. At the trial, which lasted four days, the demeanour of the prisoner was remarkably callous. He went into the witness box without hesitation or emotion, and describe"?! how he spent four hours in packing and repacking the bodies in the box in which they were afterwards found.