The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-14
MRS. CAREV'S APEh,
Judicial Committee Of the
Privy Council Approves
the Yokohama Judg-
ment.
AN ENGLISH MAVERICK CASE
Found Guilty But Saved From
Death = Sketch of the
Case.
AN ENGLISH MAVERICK CASE
TBy Gable to The Associated rress.s

TBy Gable to The Associated pressS
LONDON, July Il, 1897.-The Judicial
Committee of the Privy Council has re-
fused leave TO appeal from the judgment
entered at Yokohama on February /,
sentencing to death Mrs. Carew, con-
victed of poisoning her husband, Walter
Raymond HalloweiI Carew, Secretary OF
the Yokohama United Club. which was
subsequently commuted by the British
Minister to Japan. Sir E. NJ. Satow. TO im-
prisonment for life.
The trial of Mrs Carew last winter at
tracted much attention because OF the
prominence of Mr.. and Mrs. Carew in
society at Yokohama and because of a
similarity of some features of the case to
the Maybrick trial, which resulted in the
sentencing of Mrs. Florence Maybrick, an
American, to life imprisonment IN Eng
land The trial court held twenty-one ses-
sions before verdict The proceedings
were enlivened by numerous sensational
incidents. AT one time q highly important
piece of documentary evidence disap-
peared. It was eventually found carefully
tucked away in a cuff of the jacket which
the prisoner was wearing in the court
room. At another time it was reported
that a governess employed in the CaTsw.
household had confessed that she had
administered the poison which caused Mr..
Carews death. Mrs. Carew had testified
at the coroner's inquest, conducted by
the British Consul, to the appearance in
her domestic circle of a mysterious
woman in black supposed to be a former
sweetheart of Mr.. Carew in England. An
attempt was made to identify the
governess with this mysterious woman
and she was arrested, but the prosecution
was dropped.
The coroner's jury did not hold Mrs.
Carew responsible for her husbands
death. The British Minister, however.
took the case up and caused her arrest
last November on the charge of murder.
The Carews had been living at Yoko-
hama for six years. Prior to going there
Mr.. Carew had long been IN the British
civil service, stationed in the Far East,
His health failing, he had designed to try
the climate of California. While on a
trip from the Straits Settlement TO San
Francisco he stopped at Yokohama and
as the climate attracted him took up his
residence there, he and his wife being i'm
mediately received into the select Euro
pean society of the Japanese metropolis.
Mr.. Carew was taken i'll last October
and his wife allowed no one except her
brother and the doctor to enter the sick
room. AS the patient showed no tm-s
provement the doctor ordered his removal
to the British Naval Hospital, where he
died a few hours after arrival. It was
developed at the trial that q large guam
tity of arsenic had been used in the house
Mrs. Carew said her husband had been
in the habit of taking it regularly for
years. The coroner,s inquest resulted in a
verdict of death from arsenical poison
ing, but by whom caused there is no di-
rect evidence to show
Mrs. Carew is splendid horsewoman,
rather fine looking, was socially ambitious
and during her residence in Yokohama.
prior to the accusation, always figured
prominently.
When Mrs. Carew was informed that
the British Minister had commuted the
death penalty to Imprisonment for life
she said she would not accept clemency
on such conditions, paSsionately declar-
ing, las between execution and imprison-
ment for life infinitely prefer death So.
unless you will release me, you must kill
me; for if you do not, shall kill my
self"