TRAGIC SCENE IN COURT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2625, 22 November 1915, Page 6

TRAGIC SCENE IN COURT

AUTHORESS TAKES POISON

By Tel«&raph—Press Association—Copyrighl London, November 19.

Miss Annesley Konealy brought an action against Smith and Son for placing her novel on the library blacklist, thus characteristic it as immoral.

Miss Annesle.y Ivenealy is a handsome woman, and conducted her own case, wearing a small cap, and loosefitting robo modelled on Portia's costume. She made an impassioned speech, defending the morality of her novels ''Poodle Woman" and "Thus Saith Mrs. Grundy."

AVhen Mr. Justice Coleridge ruled that she had no case, slio stood up in Court, drank from a small Bottle containing a milky fluid, and shrieked: "My Lord, I. told you yon were trying a woman for her life. I have taken enough poison to kill five people." She then collapsed.- There was confusion in Court, which recalled the scene of the WJiitaker Wright poisoning case in 1904.

Doctors carried her to a waiting room,. where she recovered consciousness in half an hour, and was afterwards taken to the hospital. Miss Kenealy, in January, 1910, failed in an action she brought against Lord Northcliffe. Later she was-found in a waiting room in "a semi-conscious condition, having taken poison. She iva-s removed a hospital, .where she recovered rapidly.