MURDERED HIS WIFE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15800, 15 April 1922, Page 3

MURDERED HIS WIFE.

ARMSTRONG FOUND GUILTY

MOST REMARKABLE CASE IN

LIVING MEMORY

Elec- T»-.I Oiiyrnjni—l nireo Pres." A.-sn .Australian auu n 2 unme Association, LONDON, April 12.

Medical experts for the defence expressed the opinion that Mrs Armstrong died of a big dose of arsenic taken six days before her death. .Mr. Curtis Bennett, in his final speech, emphasised the fact that the dead woman had just come from an asylum and suffered horn delusions and could no doubt have committed suicide. LONDON, April 14. Armstrong was found guilty and sentenced to death. Interest in the Armstrong ease, was maintained to the end. Mr. Justice Darling, in summing up, said : The case probably is tire most remarkable in living memory. lie emphasised the. value of circumstantial evidence, providing it was good. Regarding the suggestion that the woman suicided, he asked the jury to consider if she would have said: “I am not going to die, am 1?” if she had taken arsenic herself.

The jury was away three-quarters < f an hour. When they returned, Armstrong replied that he had nothing further to say. I He stood rigidly to attention while the Judge said that he agreed with tho verdict and passed sentence.

Armstrong went to the cells without a change of attitude, preserving the same cool, collected demeanour which he had exhibited during his long crossexamination.

Notice of appeal has been given