Mrs, Ella Barnett, at whose house Mrs. Jarvis stayed, described how Mrs. Jarvis came to her in fear of Jarvis and with bruises on her body.
A man named Smith visited Mrs, Jarvis at her house, she added, and after she had been to the pictures with him on December 22 she returned with her face covered with blood.
Jarvis followed, but was chased out Charles Henry Jarvis, of The Chalet, Leigh, said his son had complained to him of the wife's relations with other men.
Medical evidence was that Mrs.
Jarvis was throttled or strangled by the hand Police stated that Jarvis had been arrested on a housebreaking charge and remanded for a week on bail on condition that he kept away from his wife. He had several convictions.
The police saw Jarvis on December 28, and he told them that he last saw his wife on Friday about 9 pin. outside the Bell Hotel, and that they did not quarrel, Leslie Leonard Smith, painter, of Alexandra Road, Southend, said he met Mrs. Jarvis on December 13 at a cinema. Mrs. Jarvis told him she was a widow and that her husband's name was Owen.
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