CONWAY MURDER CASE.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 23 April 1901, Page 4

CONWAY MURDER CASE.

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Sydney, April 22. Jane Smith was arraigned on the charge of the murder of Conway. Wade, Crown prosecutor, opened the case, and said that although no one could say that accused had put the poison in the food, the fact that she was the last person in company with the deceased, she being the person at whose hands he took food prior to the fatal fit, combined with her demeanour at the conclusion was evidence that deceased met his death at her hands, and that the deed was done with criminal purpose.

The accused who looked more careworn on her appearance at the Coroner's Court excerised the challenge freely, objecting to fourteen jurors. Tdoma3 Conway, brother of deceased, said that his brother never had a lit in his life. Smith visitod their home in 1889. He had seen her several times since then. His brother, hi» sister, and himself had accompanied her to the theatre. Ho knew Ilia brother had considerable sums of money by him from timo to timo. When the chief mats of the Tahino was put in tho box Mr Reid objected to Wade asking him what flag lie was sailing under. He looked upon tho question as irrelevant and gave as a reason that the Hag she was sailing -under was not evidence of her registration and should be put in. The Judge overruled the objection.

Dalton,stawavd of the Taltme, admitted that he did not receivo instructions to lock up deceased's effects till the next morning Dr. Taylor cross-examined by Mr Reid, said that he formed the opinion of the death after tho post mortem and questioning soma of ?ho ship's company. Ho had in hisunind tho question of strychnine at the time, but finally decided from tha resulc of the post mortem in favoor of tho certificate ha gave. Ho recognised that a man with deceased's kidneys might have fits. Handling a patient after the poison was well absorbed might bring on convulsions.

The evidence given showed that the jara containing the contcrils of the stomach lay in the morgue soma days unsealed. The Government analyst said tha 1 ; it was a very remote chance that poison was placed in the remains after death. It would require a skilled anatomist to inject poison into the tissues. Hamlet, the Government analyst, said that the strychnine he found in Conway's remains had bcon swallowed during life.

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