MAREO CASE AGAIN
MR. DOIDGE SENDS LETTER TO MINISTER OF JUSTICE (P.A.) Auckland, Feb. 16. Arguments for the view that Eric Mareo was wrongly convicted at Auckland in 1936 of murdering his wife, Thelma Mareo, by administering veronal to her are set out by Mr. F. W. Doidge, M.P. for Tauranga, in a letter which he has addressed to the Minister of Justice, the Hon. H. G. R. Mason. Copies are being sent to all Members of Parliament. Mr. Doidge states that he has read the whole of the notes of the evidence at Mareo’s trials, together with notes made by Mareo himself and the subsequent reports of the late Sir William Wilcox, eminent toxicologist, and Mr. E. G. Hemmerde, K.C., Recorder of Liverpool. After quoting Sir William’s considered opinion that Mrs. Mareo’s death was due to veronal self-adminis-tered, Mr. Doidge contends that there is not a scrap of positive evidence to show that Mareo murdered his wife.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 40, 18 February 1943, Page 3
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