MINISTER ARRESTED

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 81, 3 February 1928, Page 5

MINISTER ARRESTED

CHARGE Qt WIFE MURDER SUDDEN DEATH AND BURIAL. Press Association —Copyright. MELBOURNE, Tins Day. Following the death of Mrs. Ethel Griggs under suspicious circumstances at Oi.noo, tlie police; exhumed her holy and later arrested her husband, the Rev. Ronald Griggs, a Methodist nuiiistdr. on a charge of murder. Mr Griggs, who is 28 years of age,

Wais a brilliant scholar at Queen's College, Melbourne, and had done good work for the Methodist Mission before receiving a call to OincoHe was married at Raiiton (Tas.), and came to Oiikvi shortly afterwards. Jn February last a daughter was. born to. tho couple l . About four months ago Mrs. Griggs took her baby on a visit to her parents in Tasmania, and returned to Olneo on New Year's Eve. She died toe fol-j lowing Tuesday, and was buried next da\ —her 22nd birthday. Shortly after the occurrence prominent members df tho tihiurch iat> tho quarterly meeting requested Mr. Griggs to resign, but he refused; Detective-Sergeant Mili'ahcy had charge of the case for tho police, and made exhaustive enquiries before taking action for the exhumation of the dead woman's body.