SUSPECTED POISONING.
COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.
[jjy Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.]
Melbourne, June 23
Cowell and Barr have been committed for trial for attempting to murder Mrs King.
A Melbourne cablegram, dated June 16, said: —Two young women, Clarice Cowell and Elizabeth. Barry, were remanded in custody on a charge of conspiring to murder Mrs King by placing strychnine in her tea. Tho police evidence showed that Barry called on Mrs King, representing herself to be a friend of her brother. Mrs King asked her to have a cup of tea, and after making it left the room. On returning she sipped the tea, and finding it had a peculiar taste did not drink it. It was examined after Barry left and found to contain sufficient strychnine to kill ten people. When arrested, Barry made a statement that she and Cowell conspired to poison Mrs King. Cowell at first denied, 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 41, 24 June 1913, Page 3
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174SUSPECTED POISONING. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 41, 24 June 1913, Page 3
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