The Warwickshire Herald. — 1896-12-31 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

LADY."  Mrs. Carew, the widow, was called. arid her evidence caused great sensation. She suggested that a mysterious veiled woman" may have had something to do with the poisoning, and said that previous to his marriage her husband told her that he had had an affair with a woman named Anna Luke, whom be,felt he had treated in a very shabby manner. "I remember," said the witness, "that on October 10th, the day of the regatta, a visitor came to my house at about 2 o'clock that afternoon —a woman who was a complete stranger to me. She asked to see Mr. Carew. I said lie was not at home. She said she must and would see him, if not that afternoon, then the following morning. She gave me a card. On it were the letters •M. J..' and in a corner. •A. L., 1138.5.' The lady was slight, tall, and heavily veiled. I never saw the 'Ann Luke' referred to, to my knowledge. On October 16th or 17th I received a Letter in my husband's handwriting, addressed to Miss Luke, Post Office, Ykohanra. I destroyed the envelpoe. The letter said that he felt greatly distressed about her, and was willing to help her, but could not find her, and asking her to meet him on the Bond at 5.30 p.m. on October 14th. On October 19th an envelope with a piece of paper inside was left by a ricksha man. The paper was in the handwriting of my husband. The envelope was not, but it looked to b • in the same as the letter signed Annie.' On October 29th another anonymous letter was found on my doorstep, apparently in the sante writing as the envelope of the other. It read: Beware'. Dare to speak one word of the truth, and you shall never leave Japan alive.' On November I received, through the post, another letter, addressed • Mrs. Carew, 159, Bluff,' saying: 'I have done what I can for you. True.l have made yOu suffer. I have written to Mr. Hall (the coroner), and Mr. Lowder. Yoko ania will be' troubled no longer by A. Li.' On the same day, Mr. Lowder chewed me a letter, which he said lie had received. It was to this effect: •I do not know you, but I gather you will be acting for the wife of him who MBA all to me. I ant going to follow him. Ido not see why I should let a Isilly. innocent woman suffer. By the time you get:this I shall be on me way to. join him, my twin soul. Let his !mother lock after the boy.'" , The coroner announced that the letter to I.inn conveyed the information that the writer was about to join Carew in death, and that before going sho wanted to proclaim the innocence of "that silly little fool of a wife."—The official report of the contents of the stomach was read. It said that arainst the supposition that the deceased os-erdosed himself, a man accustomed to talc- arsenic medicinally would have to give himself a dose 30 times a medicinal dose to produce death."—After an hour's deliberation the jury returned a verdict to the effect that Mr. Carew died from arsenical poisoning. bat by whom administered there wa, no I direct evidence to thew.  WWI CHAUGED WITII T 1 MChDII9 Subsequently. Mrs. Carew was brought before the British Court of Yokohama, on the charge of murdering her husband, when somewhat similar eramce was adduced. A number of patched letters and pieces of paper were produced, which the nursery governess, Miss Jacobs, swore she had found in the waste-paper basket, in the Caress' dining-room, as far back as September 23rd, and which sem stitched together by a friend of hers, Miss Christoffoe. These letteni were not read in court, but their contents may be gathered from the fact that Miss Christoffix-'s reason for preserving them was to protect the character of her friend, should it come to the ears of the Caress or the public that men—not "house friends "—were in the habit of calling. These apparently incriminating letters disappeared while in the hands of the lawyers of the accused, but ene was found hidden between the crape trimming of Mrs. Carew's sleeve.—The examination Waa at that stage adjourned.