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LOVER ACQUITTED OF MURDER TOLD "WE MUST PART"
William Whiting, aged 38, was at the Old Bailey recently acquitted of the murder of Mrs. Phyllis May Spiers, whose body was found in a coppice at Folke- stone with a green scarf round the neck.
The prosecution suggested that Whiting was angry with Splers because she had caused Mrs. Rone Woodbridge, with whom, he said, he was in love, to leave him.
Although one of the first to congratulate Whiting on his ac- · quittal, Mrs. Woodbridge refused a reconciliation.
"I still love Rose. and I am anxious for her tu come back to me," he said, but Mrs. Woodbridge, | who overheard the remark, brake :; "It's no we; you know 1 will nev come buck,"
Whiting invited her to join him . he left the building, but she refused. "I don't want to see him any more," she told ine. Whiting then left with friends.
The trial will go down in legal his- tory as one in which it was the pro- secution that indirectly proved the accused man's innocence.
Ten witnesses called for Whiting were found by the
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These wlinesses
Were turned Dver to the defence, and their evidence was that they had seen ile woman alive after May 23, the day on which the prosecution sur gested she was murdered. Mr. Justice
Wruttesley, summing up, said what Was most strongly relied on by the defence was tys evidence of these witnesses. 61 WITNESSES
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After being in Whiting's company on May 23 Mr. Spiers disappeared, but the jury must remember that she witled haine. She was a
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Fun! The Crown said it was a ense of preple making a mistake, as people did when asked to recall when they Bitst
saw a person they did not know very well, but if the jury thought only one of these witnesses wis not making a mistake, and that the girl was seen alive after May 23, they bad ehnice but to find Whiting not gudty.
The jury, which included three winra, considered their verdict for two hours 23 minutes,
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AUSTRALIA STANDS BY BRITAIN
Canberra,
The Australian Cabinet recently gave long consideration to the inter- atkal situation, following a tele- phone conversation between Mr. J. A. Lyons, the Prime Minister, and Mr. S. M. Bruce, Australian High Commissioner in London.
The Cabinet decided (0 support Great Britain to the fullest degree in any action that may be deemed inter- nationally necessary.
Mr. Lynns, in a statement at the conclusion of the Cabinet meeting. said that although the position had not improved, the Commonwealth was still hopeful that reason would prevail.
He had advised Great Britain that Australia Wus in the completest acron with the policy as outlined by Mr. Chamberlain and renfried by Sir John Simon at Lanark,
Tur siribourne Herald, in leader says: "Australia yearns for peare, and believes that the interests of freedom and justice will be best served by supporting Britain,"
being borne by the Crown.
After the verdict Whiting was surrounded, men shaking him by the hand and women kissing him. "I Sixty-four witnesses were brought hat a terrible time waiting for the *from Folkestone for four days, the jury to come back," he said. "They
cost of their train faron and fers, allowed running into hundreds of pounds,
The tar have cigarette, which slead.ed me up a bit."
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