The Conway Case.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 142, 27 April 1901, Page 3

The Conway Case.

Ssd:<ry, April 24, The evi'-l'-'M':" at th" trial of Mrs Smith woa 'kuy*e!y a repetition of t'-int tttJjMLJnqu£oi;. a stewardess )tj tho Tiiiiin..-, said that th,j .ocusod introduced her to Captain Robertson the day pviur to arrival in Sy iney. The accused waited aboard the ship till Captain Robertson returned, in order to obtain his assistance to get a draft Gashed. Accused vvas in bed at 8 o'clock on the night the vessel left Wellington. Both accused and Miss Huddleston had plums at lunch on February 10. Detective McLean stated that the accused admitted giving- the deceased plums. When he took ber to the morgue she was cairn, but a little afiVcted at the sight of tho body. He visited' tho pawn fchops in search of the elects. ;■■ e know Mrs Sams in connection with Sinitu, and had found certain jevveilery pawned in the name of Bauis for &210 s. April 25. The accused, in response io" a:i inquiry by ihv? Judg'\ rriado a statement, ar.d commenced in a lieiu voice—' Gentleman of the jury,—l stand here truthfuiiy and nay ihat I did buy poison for my friends in ibe country. It is ulso true that I did not take any poison aboard the steamship Tahine.' At this point, for the firsl time since accused appeared in public, ber great nerve way, and she wt-pi bitterly. Reooveriuga littie, l>:it in broken accents, she further a id ■■] : ■'l did not srivp Mr Conway an'-giving to cause 'hi. 1 d>.a h,' and she retuitried her seat weeping. Jjvitiencrf for the defence was put in in show that accused had borrowed umney to pay the remainder of her passa&e .yioiiey, and that to get more she had ta-ul to pawn several articles of j.iW-el-kv.-y. 'iijC! cast; tor fh.e defence iv-*t? now closed, and counsel \S r \li address tin- Conrt to-mo row.