SECOND TRIAL OF WOMAN CHARGED WITH MURDER NEARS ITS END

Wanganui Chronicle, 7 May 1948, Page 6

SECOND TRIAL OF WOMAN CHARGED WITH MURDER NEARS ITS END

(P.A.) Dunedin, May 6. After eight days of voluminous Crown evidence —in which 48 witwitnesses had testified, in the Supreme Court in the case of Phyllis Freeman, aged 33, who Is charged with the murder of Joyce Maysie Morrison, at Enfield, near Oamaru, in 1942—the last witness left the box at the close of today’s hearing. Tomorrow morning the Crown Prosecutor (Mr. F. B. Adams? will deliver his address to the jury.

The last two witnesses were Dr. E. F. d’Ath, Professor of Pathology at the Otago Medical School, and Dr. P. P. Lynch, pathologist, of Wellington, who both expressed the opinion that Mrs. Morrison had died of strychnine poisoning. They had examined Mrs. Morrison’s body after its exnumation from the Oamaru cemetery last year. Queues waited outside the courtroom before the afternoon session began, and when the doors were opened some spectators had to stand while the evidence of the pathologists was being taken.