GREENWOOD MURDER CASE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18019, 6 November 1920, Page 5

GREENWOOD MURDER CASE.

FURTHER EVIDENCE. LONDON, Nov. 4. I Ar the Greenwood trial the Crown ; counsel mentioned that Mrs Greenwood died after drinking from a bottle of wine. The bottle disappeared without trace. It was suggested that Greenwood had put arsenic in the wine. Later in the day Mrs Greenwood was taken seriously ill. with symptoms of arsenic poisoning. Greenwood delayed going for a doctor, and then talked so long to the doctor's sister that his daughter had to fetch him. A letter was read from Greenwood to the doctor’s sister after his wife had died, stating that she was the one he loved most in the world, and offering marriage. Counsel suggested that this was not a genuine offer,as two days before he had notified the registrar of his intention to marry Miss Jones, whom he married three and a half months i after the death of his wife. Mary Griffiths, the doctor’s sister. . gave evidence that Greenwood proI posed to her. but she refused him. She denied that she detained Greenwood on the night of his wife’s death. She knew of no difference I between the Greenwoods on her ac--1 count. She did not get Greenwood ;to write a letter regarding the proposal for the purpose of righting her before the world. She asked him what he meant by writing the letter. : and he replied that there was noi thing in It. Received Nov. 5. 7.20 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 4.

To-day's evidence in the Greenwood case was mainly that of experts, who were of opinion that death was due to arsenic taken some hours before death. Mr. Marshall Hall’s cross-examina-tion. revealing the closest study of the positions in relation to murder, aimed at showing that arsenic was present in minute quantities in many substances commonly used. Experts found no traces of morphia when the body was exhumed ten months after death.

There were heated passages between Mr. Hall and the police superintendent concerning the latter’s notebook containing Greenwood’s statement. Mr. Hall suggested that leaves had been removed containing portions of the statement. The superintendent retorted indignantly that Mr. Hall, by fingering the book carelessly, had made it appear as if a leaf had been torn out.