The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-12-23
While Awaiting Verdict Ofthe
Jury
ASTOUNDING NERVE SHOWN
Displayed BY Robert Wood. Artist, While
on Trial for Murder Of a Woman
Acquitted. He Is Hero Of the
Hour Ia London.

London Dec. e3.-- Robert Wood. an
young artist who was acquitted Of thl
Camden town murder. a the hero OF thl
hour IN London. vhile the witnesses VII,
testified against him are virtually nndcl
police protection. Several Of them hay,
already had 20 change their abode, ow
Ing 20 the hostility provoked BY thcil
testimony
Ruby Young, tho artists former sweet
heart. who had promised to swear q
an alih for him covering the night ol
the murder, bat caused his arrest. 4
being sent 20 Canada hy the authorities
owing 20 threats directed at her
\ While crowds are constantly assem-.
bled before Woods house, be has gone
% Scotland for q month's stay 10 escape
is admirers. Ills perfect calmness and
good humor during the trial and bis a..
founding nerve Ii sketehing the Judge,
while waiting the verdict Of the jury,
are not more striking than the generous
compliments he has paid the police and
witnesses who testified against him.
lie has displayed none OF the bitter
resentment which q falsely accused man
might naturally be expected 90 bear
toward those responsible for the attempt
90 have him hanged on a rroundless
charge or for the frightful ordeal TO
which they subjected him. He has not
expressed one word Of Indignation
against anybody.
THE fairness. perfect fairness Of the
trial 4 what struck me most" he says
lie added that the murder itself was
unique IN is execution.
Phyllis Dmmock, il whose company
Wood admittedly was mp to III p. N.
Of Tuesday. Sept. ] |. was found the next
morning in her room lying naked across
the bed. Her throat vas cut, the spinal
column being almost severed
Surgeons said the muricrous cash had
been. inflicted while the girl was sleep.
ing, her head bsiug evidently raised In
the assisin's right hand, while with one
powerful. sweeping movement with a "a.
zor he all but cut her head from the
body.
The Dimmock woman lived with Der
tram Shaw, a waiter in a restaurant,
who that night was away on a journey
During his absence she walked the
streets among The lowest class Of wo-
men.
The evidence against Wood was pure
~ circumstantial. and the testimony Of
the witnesses who saw him with Phyllis
Dmmock was tainted By their bad char.
acter The only traces Of Wood found
in her room were Of q post -card max.
ing an appointment and burnt frag-
ments Of a not, IN the CRATE These
fragments were in his handwriting, and
the prosecution contended that the note
arranged for meeting on the night OF
the murder.
Wood swore that he only met the
woman three days before the |
murder, while her associates asserted |
that he had been on friendly terms with
her for nearly two years.
When the police published fac
simile Of the postcard i was Ruby |
Young who disclosed the identity OF the |
writer and secured Woods arrest, though /
she had promised him she would swear \
TO a false abb that he was with her
ON the night of the murder.
The crime was the work of a callous.
calculating man in its method and sur
circumstances, and so perfectly |
executed as 20 be worthy Of De Quin
cey's morbid imaginings in Murder as
4 Fine Art
Nothing but a miracle or a voluntary
confession can now solve the mystery.
Wood has declined an offer OF ST 800
4 week to appear on a music hall stage
md do rapid ssetehing.