KIDWELLY CASE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18018, 5 November 1920, Page 5

KIDWELLY CASE.

AN ALLEGED WIFE-POISONER. LONDON, Nov. 3. Newspapers give great prominence to the sensational position of the trial at Carmarthen, of what is known as the Kidwelly case, in which Harold Greenwood, a prominent solicitor, is charged with poisoning his wife. Shortly after his wife’s death , he married Miss Gladys Jones, with whom the prosecution alleges he had i relations prior to his first wife’s j death. ,I The court is densely crowded, and ’ the greatest criminal lawyers are : engaged in the case. j The trains brought great crowds I to witness the trial, the Scenes round ' the courthouse having a resemblance i to a national Eisteddfod. Received Nov. 4, 8 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 3. ’ Mr. Marshall half hinted that the i defence intended to show that an ’ ■ overdose of morphia caused death, J not arsenic. At one moment he ’•threatened to withdraw from the ■case, but continued. I After the adjournment a doctor • sad he had the prescription at his I surgery, but on returning to Court announced that he could not find the i originals, as the book had been de- [ stroyed. He added that the police • had a copy of the original for some months, wherein the word was opium, not morphia. The book was destroyed when he gave up practice in December, 1919. but he admitted that a copy was made in June. 1920. Mr. Hall cross-examined the witness and showed the second line of defence, viz., that the arsenic in the body might have been derived from glucose, which was extensively used during the war period for making jam owing to shortage of sugar. CASE TAKES A STARTLING TURN. Received Nov. 4, 10.30 p.m. LONDON. Nov. 3. The Greenwood murder case at • Carmarthen, which is regarded as the most sensational murder trial since the Seddon case in 1914, took a startling turn during the examination of the deceased's physician, who I gave evidence at the coroner's inquest that he administered two pills, each containing half a grain of morphia, a few hours before her death. He now corrected that evidence, saying that he meant opium, not morphia. He only discovered the mistake yesterday. He admitted that a grain of morphia would probably cause death, but he insisted that it was opium. Mr. Marshall Hall, defending Greenwood, vehemently protested against such a surprise being sprung upon the defence without warning, and stated that it altered the whole case for the defence.