MURDER CHARGE
RE-TRIAL OF MAREO. TO-DAY’S EVIDENCE. AUCKLAND, This Day. When the Marco trial entered the second week to-day, Norman Ralph Blomfield, company secretary, who ran the business side of the “Duchess of Danzig” production, said that signs of drinking increased in the Mareo home. While lie knew them he never saw Mrs Mareo drinking to excess, but Mareo was a pretty heavy drinker at times. Mareo telephoned witness half an hour after his wife’s death, and in reply to a question said that, the cause was the appendix, adding: “Foolish girl, if she’d had it out when I wanted she’d have been alive yet. ’ ’ A Government analyst, ; Kenneth Massey Griffin, described various tests carried out with organs and exhibits handed to him by the police, and gave the quantities of veronal which he found present. His tests showed that 6 five-grain veronal tablets could be dissolved in half a cup of milk. He tasted the solution and found it was like soda. —(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 8 June 1936, Page 5
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