STRYCHNINE IN TEA.
IX REVENGE FOR ILL-TREAT-MENT. (Received 9.40 a.m.) [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] Melbourne, June IG. Two young women named Clarice Cowell and Elizabeth Barry were remanded in custody on a charge of conspiring to murder Mrs King by placing strychnine in her tea. The oolice evidence showed that Barry called on Mrs King repreenting herself to be a friend of Mrs King's brother. Mrs King asked her to have a cup of tea. after making which she left the room. On returning slie sipped the tea and found a peculiar taste and did not drink it. Examined after Barry left the tea was found to contain sufficient strychnine to kill ten people. WhcD arrested, Barry made a statement that she and Cowell conspired to poison Mrs King. Cowell first denied it, but subsequently confirmed Barry's statement. She added that King had cruelly treated and ruined her, and she wished to get rid of Mrs King.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 35, 16 June 1913, Page 6
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159STRYCHNINE IN TEA. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 35, 16 June 1913, Page 6
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