ARABELLA KENEALY.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 November 1915, Page 2

ARABELLA KENEALY.

AN HYSTERICAL NOVELIST. CAUSES A SENSATION IN COURT. By Cable. —PreßS Association —Copyright London, Nov. 19. When judgement was given against Annesley Kenealy, plaintiff in an action against Smiths, newsagents, she took poison in court and was removed unconscious. Miss Kenealy took action against Smith and Son for placing her novel on the library black list, thus characterising it as immoral. Miss Kenealy is a handsome woman, and conducted her own case. She wore a small cap and a loose lilting robe modelled on Portia's style. She delivered ail impassioned speech, defending the morality of her novels, "The Poodle Woman" and ''Thus Saith Mrs. Grundy." When Mr. Justice Coleridge ruled that she had no case, she stood up in court, drank a small bottle of milky fluid, and shrieked: "My Lord, 1 told you you were trying a woman for her life.' 1 have taken enough poison to kill live." Site collapsed and there was confusion in court, recalling the Whitnker Wriglfl poisoning of MKM. Doctors carried hei to a waiting-room, where she recovered consciousness half an hour afterward, and was taken to a hospital. In January, 11110, -Mids Kenealy failed in an action against Lord Northcliil'e for wrongful dimissal. A month afterwards he went to Carmelite House and asked to see Lord Northcliffe. j'atcr she was found in a waiting-room semi-conscious through poison, and was taken to a Hospital, where she recovered rapidly.