THE CAMDEN TOWN MURDER.

Star (Christchurch), 20 December 1907, Page 1

THE CAMDEN TOWN MURDER.

WOOD ACQUITTED. United Press . Association— B» Electric • „ , . Telegraph— Copyright. . LONDON, December 19. Ten thousand persons outside the OU Bailey acclaimed the acquittal of Rober .Wood the young artist accused of th< jnurder of Emily Dimmock at Camder !Towri. |An alibi was proved. Two' witnesses testified that they ea\\ Emily Dimmock with a man who was Jnot Wood after midnight on the nighi k>f th,e crime- Wood's relatives testi- . ified that he slept at home. A neigh« |>our stated that he saw Wood enter hit jiome towards midnight. Wescott, a jrailway man, testified that he bimseU !*ds the man whom' M'Kowan, a oarinan, mistook in St Paul's Road towards five' o'clock in the morning for me prisoner. Wood stated that he had lied, not wishing to be dragged into the case, and let hie friends know that lie associated with a woman like hinijmpck. , Mr Justice (Jranthan, summing up favourably to the prisoner, emphasised the fact that the evidence was entirely circumstantial. It , was one of the Inost remarkable criminal trials in England, and certainly the most, remarkjßble of -Ms time. There was no direct bvidence/ against Wood. The latter liad led a double life, was untruthful, land had endeavoured- to get others to )ie fer him. . He had lied throughout, Jlis conduct giving point to such cviHenoe as there was against him. ' The jury was >. absent for fifteen minutes.