The Death on the Talune.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 120, 7 March 1901, Page 3

The Death on the Talune.

SYit-NHY, Miireh 5. The po'ice are tin New '■'', ii iivl inform uion, w!)!'j.h connects i woman with ti)..! (Mii'i-.y taso, wham ih»y Lo.po to oaav-a shortly. I' is nniV'rstorjd that t'llO roiiv'uso -<;f ;i (■'■vl.".'ji poison pri-a- to the keivhig of the Teenae t'.A- Svincy h-.v< be.a: tree-si. aori h will prohtbly b--- heard rha'.- 'his is sti\\\:!i:ii';L' '.viion the ui-ily-i- ivnorl. is made koo-.vn at the i.-'jll • .-ir. which will be resumed on Friday.

A .'•!?:• v.'oh-h every promise of I ,'ieV- losing in 1 ;) on.; o!' the. ;noU seiisa- | lion |l .m us kind is 'it p- 'ooi!'. receiving J eoa -itl-'Vihl ■ w 'sa'i.ai Irani iho Sydney j ;;:i.l .he Cii'iste.aui'ch panea says the I\v-s. Tiiis is i.li'j s'.vp'oioas death of j | a p is:v ;iq 'l' un bo.'.rd iho Taiuno ■ i wliioii w-s mentioned in a crude m.js--i!£.' from Sydney in ycsiorday'H isseea " From whiu em bo gleaned from outride sources tla- folio .viae; is, in iho absence of ollioi.il 'nets, so;ii. : account of too iiriUer: Early in February, ,\I:-P. Conw-iy, who is undoi stood to hive boon a retired butcher in wall to do circumstances, v:sited Ciulslchurch. H.J was a bachelor, possessed o; a happy temperament, and also apparently Of inexhaustible funds. Ho had cum 1 ; from Dunedin, his relatives being residents of Iloslyn. A woman, said also to come from Dunediu, vva3 seen in Ids company. Veiy little is ascertainable regarding their movements in Christchureh. The next scone tool; place en board the Taiuno, by which vessel G on way sailed from Lyttolton to Sydney. The voyage was not half over when, one evening, Conway was on deck listening to an impromptu concert. A peculiar proceeding on the part of a woman on board was taking place in another part of the vessel. Bhe asked one of tb.9 stewards for a bottle of stoat, explaining that it was for Conway, who. she said, had complained of being ill. The liquor was brought, but she had changed her mind in the meantime, and told the steward she hid some pluui3 she would give Conway instead of the stout. She then went on deck and handed the plums to Conway, who ia stated to have been in his usual high spirits. Shortly after he had eaten some of the plums he was seized with a fit. It i 3 9tated, on apparently good authority, that he was not subject to fits. He was attended to and ho ultimately recovered, but almost immediately had two other seizures, the last of which proved fatal. It is also alleged that whilst '0 on way was eating the plums he handed some to a fellowpassenger who was standing close by,; and this man was also seized with similar symptoms to those noticed in Conway, although they were not so severe, nor did they terminate in the same way. Conway's body, instead of being buried at Bea, was placed in a wooden box, and for a time was stowed behind the wheel, but later was placed in one of the ship's boats. , Prior to this, however, some surprise : was felt. Among the passengers fyy the.

fact that when the woman was informed of Conway's death she stated that she did not know him, and manifested no interest whatever in what was done with his body. These are the facts alleged to have taken place. Conway was supposed to have had about £3OO in sovereigns in his possession when he left New /->ealiind, and, as the cable message states, no money whatever was found; amongst his effects. ' oon way, into whose death on board, the Talune there is now to bo an inquest in Sydney, >on account of suspicious circumstances, was a slaughterman, and belonged to : Kaikorai Valley, where he resided with his brother and bister. The tonner wrote to the newspapers iouying the report that the deceased tillered from /its.