THE CONWAY CASE.

Waikato Argus, Volume X, Issue 914, 28 March 1901, Page 2

THE CONWAY CASE.

—«— VERDICT,OF THE JURY. ACCUbED COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. (Received March 2S, 3.50 a.m.) Syndey March 27. THE evidence at the inquest has closed. Edith Huddlestone, who occupied the cabin with Mrs Smith in the Talune, said she frequently took stout, and had some on the day Conway died. At Mrs Smith's suggestion she did not take it with her lunch, but afterwards. She was taken ill that evening, and bad a peculiar twitching of the lower jaw, which gradually became stiff. She felt very dazed and ill. It was on the evening that Conway died that she was taken ill. Mrs Smith told witness that she had given the 6tout and fruit which she had taken for Mrs Brown, a steerage passenger, to Conway, as she could not find Mrs Brown. In summing up, the Coroner said the evidence displaj-ed certain elements of suspicion against Mrs Smith. A crime of this kind was not committed without a motive. Some evidence was given from which the jury might conclude that the motive was evidently the monetary relations between Mrs Smith or her husband, or both, with deceased. After 25 minutes' deliberation, the jury returned a verdict that Conway died of strychnine administered by Jane Smith. Accused was committed for trial at the Criminal Sessions on April Ist.