DEATH IN A TEA-CUP.
CA iiLE NEWS
(United Jfresa A uociation—By Xlectri:. telegraph—Copyright.)
TWO WOMEN ASSASSINS. SENTENCED TO EIGHT YEARS. (Received Last Night, 9.25 o'clock.) SYDNEY, July 18. Clara Cowell and Louisa Berry pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to murder Mrs King. Each was sentenced to eight years' hard labour. The Judge, referring to the enormity of the offence, declared that he could not distinguish it from a case of assassins who tver© paid to go out and kill. [Two young women, Clarice Cowell and'Elizabetli Barry were remanded in custody on a charge of conspiring to murder a Mrs King by placing strychnine in her tea. The police evidence showed that Barry called ■on Mrs King, representing herself as a friend of the brother of King. She was asked to have a cup of tea. After the tea had been made; Mrs King left the room, and on returning sipped the beverage. Discerning a peculiar taste, she did not drink it. She examined it after Bafry had left, and found it contained sufficient strychnine to kill 10 people. When arrested, Barry made a statement that she and Cowell had conspired to poison Mrs King. Cowell first - denied this, * btit subsequeiltly confirmed Barry's statement, and added that King had chiellv treated and ruined her,, and that she wished to get rid of Mrs King.]
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 19 July 1913, Page 5
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225DEATH IN A TEA-CUP. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 19 July 1913, Page 5
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