... MRS THOMPSON—A WOMAN WHO LIVED MELODRAMA. EMOTIONAL SCENES IN LAST STAGES OF ILF9RD TRIAL. London, Saturday, The trial of Mrs Thompson and Frederick Bywaters, the central figures in the mysterious death of Percy Thompson, Ilford, opened to-day with a tense, expectant air. From a few hours after the' trial was adjourned yesterday throughout the long night of piercing cold and damp, men and ...