The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-01-12
IDENTITY OF THE MYSTERIOUS
FIGURE IN THE CAREW CASE
DISCLOSED.
MARY JACOB coNFEssEs.
FAMILY GOVERNESs GUILTY OF
THE CRIME CHARGED TO
THE WIFE.
FGuItless Chain of CircumstantfaI
Evidence Against Il Social Leader
In Japan's English Colony.

YOKOHAMA, Jan. 11.-Great inter-
est is taken here in the trial of Mrs.
Carew, a prominent society woman, 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 undergo
ing a sentence of Imprisonment for
life in England. Mr.. Carew was taken
Ill Oct. Is last and died on Oct. %. The
inquest certified that he died of ar
senic poisoning, and a verdict of mur-
der was rendered against some un
known person. AT the preliminary in
quiry 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 husbands.
throughout the proceedings there
were 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.
..
Walter Raymond Hallowell Carew.
husband Of Mrs. Carew, was secretary
of the Yokohama United club and
hved with his wife and children in the
most fashionable portion Of the reser
Vatlon set apart for the foreign resi-
dents OF this city. They had been six
years In Japan, coming here from
Singapore, where Mr.. Carew had been
In the British East Indian civil serv-
lce 1t was the governess, it seems.
who first spread the reports of the
purchases Of arsenic which led to
Wh1sperings among the servants. cuI-
m1nat1ng in the governess communi
eating her suspicious to the physician
who had been in attendance upon
Mr.. Carew. Owing to the suspicious
cast upon the widow, the latter en-
ployed counsel to represent her at the
coroner's inquest, aid upon the wit
ness stand she admitted having fre-
quently quarreled with her husband
AT hrst 1t was supposed that the
woman in black was a certain Annie
Luke who had been engaged to Mr.
CareW before he left England. It was
established that yelled woman called
at the Carew residence one night and
"A.
L." were received durinF. the INQUEST
by the coroner and by the deceased
previous to his death leading peonIe
TO suppose that Miss Luke had fol-
lowed him from England to japan. One
OF the missives referred to Mrs. Carew
as that little fool Of a wife" but all
the efforts of the authorities to locate
the mysterious woman, who is now be-
neVed to be no other than MARY
Jacob the governess of the family
were vain, although attempts were
made to show that the mysterious
.,Ve1led woman" might have been Mrs.
CareW in disguise. Her arrest followed
soon after the inquest, and pieces of
paper, said to have been picked up
by the goYerness, figured prominently
IN the preliminary examination before
the British consular court
These pieces of paper when sewed
together seemed to furnish the missing
links in the
CHAIN OF EVIDENCE,
which was slowly being drawn around
MRS. Carew and which apparently was
leading beyond doubt to her convic-
ton on the charge of poisoning her
huspand; Wh1le these letters were be
ing handled in court, one of them mys-
terlously disappeared, and it was after
wards 1nt1mated that Mrs. Carew had
stolen it. The judge ordered all the
doors or the court to be closed and a
search for the missing document was
made. A woman was detailed to search
Mrs. Carew and the missing paper was
found tucked away in the cuff of her
Jacket. After that, the guilt of the
unfortunate woman seemed established
beyond a doubt
counsel for Mrs. Carew, when the ap-
parently stolen document was found
upon their client, threw up their briefs,
saying that they found it impossible
to act any longer for her The letter
found on Mrs. Carew was written to
her by Mrs. Van Sittart Dickinson. a
clerk in the Hong Kong and Shanghai
bank, who was friend of the family.
1t read:
Il have been thinking much about your
probability of having to meet this woman
luded to-. wish for your sake that you
could refuse to, but have come to think that
you cannot well do so. Do you know any
s sning against her? If not you should meet
bullying by refusing and 1 want that to be
avoided If possible. If you refuse, do so on
the ground that he has insulted you before
others and that you do not wish for reputa-
ton. Refuse on these grounds first. That
is to say, If you you refuse at ALL
Another letter to Mrs. Carew was as fol-
lows:
Never mind my coming in to dinner /
shall not feel hurt if 1 am left out of your
parties. Nothing he can do will hurt my
feelings now. l am only afraid he will say
something rude to me before others, and
L cannot sit quietly under that only you
would be treated worse than ever If we
come to an open row again. 1t is worse
for you than me to hear his abuse
Mr.. Dickinson testified that Mrs. Carew
had been complaining to him of her husbands
ill-treatment and that before the proceedings
against the prisoner he wrote to her:
1T will be necessary to be quite in ac-
cord with each other on broad questions.
We must be able to answer alike. You can
say, of course, | recommended your goine
to lawyer in case your husband proved too
difficult to manage about the money-nothine
more. Your note with the cap has dis
turbed me very much. 1t makes me mad
to think what you subjected to and of
what you may be subjected to- Please be
SO careful not to drive him into any violent
acts: He shall be punished. but that would
done to you. You must tell l.. Litchfeld. a
lawyer) about last night and say that you
really cannot say when you may be COM
PEELED to leave him the husband) for fear of
personal violence. 1t is quite clear to me
now, at all risks at all hazards, divorce
1t will be seen that the purchase
Of large quantities Of arsenic, the bad
feeling existing between Mrs. Carew
and her husband, the production Of the
apparently incriminating correspond
ence, and finally, the finding of the
missing document upon MRS. Carew's
person in court, tended to prove her
guilty of the charge brought against
her. But If the report that Mary Jacob
has confessed turns out to be correct.
1t will probably be demonstrated that
the whole affair was the work of the
governess and that in addition to
poisoning Mr.. Carew she craftily drew
about his widow the chain of circum-
stantial evidence which, seemingly,
would have led to her tconviction of
numbering her h4Isfsa nj II