The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-13

after his condition. Mr. Porch himself
testified that he had seen his sister ad-
ministed medicine to Carew, and it
was otherwise shown in the evidence
offered that at least three ounces of
Fowler's solution had been used in the
Carew house within three days.
The case seemed to be somewhat
complicated by the testimany of the
widow herself. She told of a mystic
rious woman, veiled in black, who had
called at the house to see her husband.
This woman, she said was a certain
Annie Luke with whom Mr.. Carew was
supposed to have had liaison before
his marriage. The widow said that this
woman had followed Mr. Carew to
Japan. She produced a number of let
ters supposed to have been written by
the mysterious woman, in which refer
ence was made to the foolish wife"
The police made every effort to locate
this Annie Luke, but failed completely.
1t was shown that yelled woman had
once called at the Carew house during
the absence of Mrs. Carew but it was
believed that it was Mrs. Carew her
self, en- masque. In the letters sup
posed to have come from annie Luke"
that mysterious person hinted at sui
The veiled woman is believed to be a
pure fabrication of Mrs. Carew's to di-
vert suspicion from herself.
An interesting feature of the case Is
contained in certain letters from a Mr..
Dickinson, a member Of the branch
Hong Kong bank at Yokohama, in which
Dickinson entreats Mrs. Carew to secure
a divorce from Carew and promises to
marry her as soon as she shall succeed
in doing so. The coroners jury return
ed verdict saying that CareW had
come to his death at the hands of some
unknown person, but popular feeling
ran high against the widow, and a war
rant for her arrest was issued. She was
tried before the British consular court
In process of trial the fact was dis
closed that the letters supposed to have
been written by Annie Luke" We're in
sCribcd upon paper that Mr.. Carew was
in the custom of using in his corres-
pondence. A number of fragments of a
torn sheet which had been collected by
the gOVerness and sewn together were
produced, and found to have been one
of the Annie Luke" letters. During
the proceedings in court one Of the let
ters was missed. The judge ordered the
uOOrS locked ana tElat q search be made.
The missing letter was found concealed
in the cuff Of Mrs. Carew's mantle, and
this sensational discovery had a very
| damaging effect upon her case. The
two attorneys who were defending her
We're certain of an aCquittal, but when
they found their client resorting to this
sort of subterfuge they at once with
drew from the case. Other lawyers took
up the defense and carried it to the end,
but the effect on the minds of the jury
by Mrs. Carew's peculiar conduct in
concealing part of the documentary evil
! dene spoiled the case, and a verdict
of guilty was rendered.
Meanwhile, Miss Jacob the COVER
ness, was arrested on suspicion, al
though no one could give a satisfactory
reason why She was held pending the
result of the trial of Mrs. Carew, and
was released when the verdict came in.
| 1t was believed that Miss Jacob was
the author of the "Annie Luke" letters,
which are now conceived to be pure
| fabrication on the part of Mrs Carew
| hersclf.-Chicago Times Herald.