THE ILFORD MURDER.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16923, 23 December 1922, Page 9

THE ILFORD MURDER.

Bywaters To Be Hanged, Appeal Dismissed. By Telegraph—Prens Association—Copyright. Anstrnlian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received December 23, 8 a.m.) LONDON, December 21 The Court of Criminal Appeal, consisting of Lord Chief Justice Hewart, Mr, Justice Darling, and Mr, Justice Slater, dismissed Bywaters’ appeal which was based on the grounds of (1) Mr. Justice Shearman’s refusal to take the two trials separately; (2) the inadmissibility til letters from Mrs. Thompson to Bywaters; (3) misdirection of the jury; (4) that the verdict was against tbs weight of evidence. Counsel argued that the letters confused the issue. The Court did not call upon the Crown to reply. The Lord Chief Justice said that their Lordships regarded the case as a squalid and rather indecent case of lust and adultery, in which Thompson was cruelly murdered. The deceased was the only person in the case who excited any sympathy. The -elations between By waters and Mrs Thompson were most culpably intimate, There passed between them a remarkable and deplorable correspondence of a most mischievous and most venomous type. There was no ground whatever, in the Court’s opinion, for arty interference with Mr Justice Shearman’s decision to try the prisoners togetherBy waters heard the result unmoved.