Authoress Takes Poison

Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 November 1915, Page 3

Authoress Takes Poison

Miss Aunesley Iveneaiy brought ai action against Smith and Son for plac ing her novel on the library blackli.ii thus eharacteristing it as immoral. Miss Anueeley Iveuealy is a liand some woman, and conducted her owi case, wearing a small cap, and fitting robe modelled on Portia's cos- ° tumo. She made -an impassionen speech, defending the morality of hei novels "Poodle Woman'' and "Thut ' Saith Mrs Grimdv. ,, When Mr Justice Coleridge ruled that she had no case, she stood up in J Court, drank from a small bottle containing a milky fluid, and shrieked: ' "My Lord, 1 told you you were trying s a woman for her life. J have taken r enough poison to kill live people." She then collapsed. There was confusion i'i Court, which recalled the scone iu * the Wliitaker Wright poisoning ense in ' 1904 3 Doctors carried her to a waiting i room, whero she recovered conscions- " ness in half an hour, and was afterwards taken to the hospital, ' f Miss Konealy, in January, 1910, l'ail- " I eel in an action she brought against f Lord Northcliffe. Later she was found I in a waiting room in a semi-conscio.is condition, having taken poison. She was removodi to a hospital, where she recovered rapidly.