The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-13


mas been taken here in the trial of Mrs.
Carew. a prominent society lady, on
the charge of poisoning her husband
with arsenic in a manner similar to
that said to have been followed by Mrs.
Florence Maybrick, now undergoing II
sentence of imprisonment for life in
England. Mr.. Carew was taken i'll on
oct. Is last and died on Oct. %. The
inquest certified that he died of arsenic
poisoning and a verdict of murder was
rendered against some unknown per-
son. At the preliminary inquiry, held
in the British consular court here, the
evidence showed that Mrs. Carew made
large purchases of arsenic, the use OF
which she said was an old-time habit
of her husband.
Throughout the proceedings there
We're references to a mysterious yelled
woman, and there was considerable
excitement here when it became known
that Mary Jacob, the governess of the
Carew family, was arrested yesterday
and is reported to have confessed to
committing the murder for which Mrs.
Carew has been on trial since Jan. b.
A MYSTERIOUS WOMAN IN BLACK
Walter Raymond Hallowel Carew,
husband of Mrs. Carew, was secretary
of the Yokohama United club, and lived
with his wife and children in the most
fashionable portion of the reservation
set apart for foreign residents of the
city. They had been six years in Jap
an, coming here from Singapore, where
Mr.. CareW had been in the British East
Indian civil service. 1t was the gov
erness, it seems, who first spread the
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which led to whispering among the SER
wants, eliminating in the governess
communicating her suspicious to the
physician who had been in attendance
upon Mr.. Carew
owing to the suspicious cast upon
the widow, the latter employed counsel
to represent her at the coroner's in
quest, and upon the witness stand she
admitted having frequently quarreled
with her husband over money matters.
She also referred to the appearance in
their domestic circle of mysterious
"veiled woman" and of woman in
black" believed to be Identical whom
Mrs. Carew believed to be the person
who had poisoned her husband. At
first it was supposed that this mysteri-
Gus female was a certain Annie Luke,
who had been engaged to Mr. Carew
before he left England. II was estab-
lished that yelled woman called at
the CareW residence one night and let
ters signed Annie Luke" and "A. l.. u
We're received during the inquest by the
coroner and by the deceased previous
to his death, leading people TO suppose
that Miss Luke had followed him from
England to Japan.
INCRIMINATING LETTERS.
Mrs. Carew's arrest followed soor
after the inquest, and pieces of paper
said to have been picked up by the
governess, figured prominently in the
preliminary inquiry before the British
consular court. These pieces of paper
when seWed together, seemed to fur
nish the missing links in the chain OF
evidence which was slowly being drawn
around Mrs Carew, and which, appar-
emily was leading beyond doubt to hel
conviction on the charge of poisoning
her husband. While these letters We're
being handled in court one of then
mysteriously disappeared, and it wa:
afterwards intimated that Mrs. CareW
had stolen it, The judge ordered all the
doors of the court TO be closed and {
search for the missing document wa:
Mrs. Carew, and the missing pape
was found tucked away in the cuff o
her jacket. After that, the guilt of tn,
unfortunate woman seemed established
beyond a doubt. Counsel for Mrs
CareW, when the apparently stolen doc
ument was found upon their client
threw up their briefs, saying that the!
found it impossible to act any ionge
for her.
The letter found on Mrs. Carew wa
written to her by a Vansittart Dick
inson, clerk in the Hong Kong an,
Shanghai bank, who was a friend o
the family. 1t read:
Il have been thinking much of you
probability of your having to meet thi
woman Ohe mysterious yelled woman
previously alluded to). / wish for you
sake that you could refuse to, bu
have come to think that you canno
we'll do so. Do you know anything
against her? If not, you should NEE
her. l think it would bring you end
less bullying by refusing, and / wan
that to be avoided If possible. If yo
refuse, do so on the ground that he ha
insulted you before others, and tina
you do not wish for repetition. Re
fuse on those grounds first. That i
to say, if you refuse at all"
1t will be seen that the purchase o