THE CONWAY CASE.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 22 March 1901, Page 4

THE CONWAY CASE.

The following references to Mrs Smith whose name is mixed up in the Conway case, are extracted from a Dunedin letter: —The circumstances connected with the supposed poising of a man Conway on the voyage to Sydney has caused a good deal of talk. Conway was known but among a certain class. The woman under arrest was particularly well known and a considerable number of individuals are now in fear and trembling lest the information which has been gathered should be made public. This woman is the daughter of hard-working respectable people near Christchurch. She graduated in a fruit shop, but in vulgar parlance became "too big for her boots." She married and her husband coming to livo near Dunedin she appears to have made up her mind to cut a dash. Her dresses were tho talk and envy of the women. She always had a knot of admirers dangling after her but she acted very discreetly for somo time to the leading ladies in the little suburb. Her male friends are believed to have been bind freely, and if report is not a lying jade she possesses momentos which might prove very awk.vard if they have not ore now found their way to the melting pot. Conway is what is termed a " lucky man "at races. Ho attended the New Zealand Cup mooting some 10 months back and cleared some £C>O or ;£7O. Ho wss introduced to this woman and she stuck tj him like a loeek. Ho was induced to lend £2CO on the property of the woman and her husband. How the pair camo to go to Christchurch together and afterwards to Sydney is not known. Tho motive beyond the recovery of the mortgage deeds and some littlo cash is not at all clear. Probably it will bo mado manifest at the inquest in Sydney.