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...Peace Corpsman Bill H. Kinsey, 24, charged with bludgeoning his wife to death, was on trial for 18 days in the Tanzanian town of Mwanza (TIME, Sept. 16). Last week he was found not guilty, but the verdict had a distinctly grudging sound...
...trial assessors (something like jurors), one of them an American, decided that Peverly Kinsey's death was "an obvious accident." As they saw it, the prosecution failed to disprove Kinsey's claim that Peverly had slipped and plunged 20 ft. to her death while the two young teachers were picnicking on a rock-strewn hillside...
...Kinsey flew straight home to see his mother and veterinarian father in Washington, D.C. He says that he may well return to Tanzania and extend his Peace Corps tour...
...copies of Ceremony in Lone Tree, a novel by Wright Morris, in which specified sentences proved to be almost word for word the same as the lines in the diary. The novel was part of a selection issued to Peace Corps members in Tanzania for their book lockers, and Kinsey testified that he had formed the habit of jotting down excerpts from books while majoring in literature at college. Dr. Gerald C. Dockeray, a pathologist who appeared for the defense, told the court that Peverley's head wounds were so severe that a "colossal force" must have been used...
Ducky Chat. If Kinsey began the trial a lonely stranger, by week's end he knew that his case had been handled by a sharp and knowing criminal lawyer. Georgiadis even produced a surprise witness: Mrs. Charlotte Dennett of Riverside, Conn., the mother of the dead girl. "It's good to see you, Bill," she said, as she embraced the defendant. Mrs. Dennett, ex-wife of the late Raymond Dennett, a former director of the World Peace Foundation, took the stand to give evidence in a quiet voice. While she fought back tears, she identified a letter that...