THE CONWAY CASE.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 64, 19 March 1901, Page 2

THE CONWAY CASE.

Dunedin, March 15. Regarding Smith’s denial rc [the - mortgage on his house to Conway, Mrs Smith herself is said*to have admitted, on being arrested in Sussex Street Hotel, that her husband owned £2OO on the security of his property, but asserted that she paid over this money with £8 interest to Conway a month ago, and that her husband now holds the deeds of the property, which were returned by Conway at the time of payment. On enquiring into the latter statement, your special ascertained that Mrs Smith associated a man by tho name of Williams, supposed to be a solicitor here, as having witnessed tho paying back of the money, but no such person has been discovered here. Conway once owned an interest in the trotting horse Cottage Boy, which was frequently entered in nis name. The New Zealand witnesses likely to be required for the trial of Mrs Smith are Constable Trehey, of Sumner, who saw the pair in company at Sumner, and was present when Conway was supposed to have had a fit, Conway’s brother, Tom, who had the deeds in his possession for some time, Sergeant Griffiths, who has made an unsuccessful search for the so-called solicitor, Williams, supposed to have witnessed the paying back of the £2OO, Mrs Knox, of the Oxford Hotel, who can give evidence is to Mrs Smith calling at and ringing up the hotel for Conway, and as to a large sum of money the latter had in his pos;ession when leaving. The chemist is already in Sydney. / • It is understood that one of the two who is alleged to have sold itrychnine to a woman who is supposed o be Mrs Smith will leave Wellington or Sydney to-morrow by the Moana, in onnection with the Conway mystery,