THE CONWAY CASE.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 14 March 1901, Page 4

THE CONWAY CASE.

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Sydney, March 13.

James Thompson, a steerage passenger on the Talune, deposed that he made Conway’s acquaintance tho day the steamer left Lyttelton. Tne following Saturday he saw the woman sitting with Conway on the hatchway. After leaving Wellington, Conway told him something and pointed out tho lady now sitting in Court. On the night Conway died he and witness after tea played cards on the hatchway near the saloon until it became too dark to continue. Witness then went to bis bunk. While there ho saw a lady go into the lady’s cabin, also into tho steerage cabin. She was the same lady he saw on tho deck when they left Wellington, and she was identical with tho lady in Court. Ho did not notice where she went after looking in the cabin door. A little while after ho saw Conway on deck struggling in a fit-

Jessie Fairleys, a steerage passenger on the Talune, deposed that on the evening of February I9;h a stranger, not one of the steerage passengers, came into the fn rceabin. It was the lady in Court. She was evidently addressing somebody, and said, “I could not come before, because I have been too sick.” It was about half an hour after she saw tho lady that witness heard that a man had been seized with a Gt. She saw the lady the next afternoon standing on the foot ladder leading to the forecastle. Frederick Liardct, saloon steward on the Talune, identified the lady in Court as a passenger who recently travelled in his vessel. On February 19sh he saw her between Nos 1 and 2 hatch about 7 30 pm. She asked him if that was the way to the fore cibin. He replied in the afGrmativo and handed her over the steam, box. He saw her go to the fore cabin. He did not notice her again till about 8 15, when he saw her entering the starboard alleyway going af’. The same lady, when the ship reached Sydnsy wharf, asked him if they had taken the dead man ashore. In the Conway case Jessie Fairless deposed that when the lady in the Court Grst came to the cabin she said to witness’s mother, “ Are you the lady who has a daughter that I am looking for ? ” Her mother replied, “ No, I do not know you. ”