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THE HONKGONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
igent enquiries for a person of Annie Luke. He had done so, but no trace of her. He had not heard of her being in. Yokohama or of any person having geen beroe
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an attempt to shake Dr. Divers cross-examination on that poin to the tolerance of arsenic by persons to the use of it, but it seemed it was quite unshaken on that point. it down that the idea of a two gra
stomach and having been taken by a western s ill remember that at the close of the tolerated was unknown. The case ** ́s proceedings the case stood somewhat Styrian peasant was exceptional and the Three medical men had been examined evidence seems to negative the supposition in the forenoon at the Naval Hospital-Dr. that the deceased administered the arsenic to Wheeler and the two Naval doctors who con- himself either intentionally or unintentionally duoted the post-mortem examination. The re- Then if he did not administer it himself some sult of the evidence of these three medical men other hand must have given him the poison, was to make it clear that the deceased did not Who can that be? Latterly and inevitably die from natural causes, and that in order to suspicion will fall upon the nurse, upon his find out from what cause he did die it was wife Mrs. Carew, who was in sole charge essential that an expert chemical examination of his nursing with hardly any assistance should be made of his internal organs, his except sending up occasionally a drink of viscera, which you accordingly ordered and milk or beef tea by one of the servants. If which was put into the hands of Dr. Divers. In it was not Mrs. Carew, it may have been the afternoon of that day three witnesses were some one outside, and that introduces the xamined Miss Jacobs Mr. Porch, and Mrs. mention of Annie Luke. The case which Carew herself. The evidence of the afternoon the able counsel for Mrs. Carow has been showed that medicine arsenic had been pro- endeavouring to make out I take to be this, that oured at Maruya's by Mrs. Carew's orders. The on or about the 10th October last- a woman testimony of Miss Jacobs upon that point was named Annie Luke, with whom Mr. Carew had olear and explicit and unshaken by such slight previous relations in England or elsewhere, cross-examination as she was exposed to. Her came to Yokohama, and during the course of
The unpleasant discussion arose testimony was that of an unwilling but truthful Mr. Carey's illness, in an interval in which witness, and upon every material point her Mrs. Carew was not at the bedside of her The 10th of last October was Rẻ evidence remains unshaken. The evidence husband, found entrance to the deceased and very inclement rainy day, as some
On that day some cont showed that poison had been procured from administered the poison. If that is not the member. Maruya's; that during the week or eight days of implication I fail to see what the object of all facts make their appearance in t Mr. Carew's illness his wife had been in sole this evidence as to Annie Luke can be. Now, is the mentioning by Mr charge of his pursing-his nurse by day and by gentlemen, Annie Luke has been seen, according boat-house to her husband, in night, and that by her own admission, although to the testimony of Mrs. Carew, on the day of of other people, of a certain she was aware that the deceased was taking the regatta on the 10th of October. Mrs. Carew in black who was afterwards fully arsenic, she had never considered it important swears that a woman dressed in black and wearing as Annie Luke: The second imp enough to inform his medical attendant of the a veil called, desiring to see Mr. Carew, that that day was the obtaining by Mrs. fact. Gentlemen, you will observe the gravity of finding he was not at home she made an appoint- Dr. Wheeler of an order for arsenio for her that admission supposing it to be afterwards ment for 4.30 that afternoon, and stated that if own malarial fever. On the 11th October, Mrs. proven that death did result from arsenic. We she not come then she would come next morning. Carew procures from the Normal Dispensary come now to the second day of the inquest, when She did not keep that appointment. That is on that prescription of Dr. Wheeler's, a half other evidence was given, namely, the keystone the sole clear statement as to the appearance in ounce bottle of arsenio. On the 15th of of the whole case--Dr. Divers' evidence. It is the flesh of Annie Luke. No doubt the amah ber, four days afterwards, Mr. Carew is hardly necessary for me to read over the clear testified that on one occasion during Mrs. to his house, not to leave it again excep
a week's interval, to die. On the and 'explicit and forcible terms in which Dr. Carew's absence from her husband's bedside a Divers showed to your satisfaction-must have woman called and enquired after Mr. Carew and days afterwards, Mrs. Carew procures convinced you that death resulted from ar- asked where his bedroom was. She could give half-ounce bottle of arsenic from the senical poisoning. That simplified your duty no particulars as it was dark. That may have Dispensary, On the 19th Mr. Carew 81 very, much, because it reduces the issue practi. been Annie Luke or it may have been a neigh- increases in gravity, the symptoms increase cally to one point, namely, who administered the bour coming kindly to enquire. But what is seriousness. On the 19th a bottle is pro arsenic. Now there are two possible suppositions clear is that Mrs. Carew mentioned a woman in from Maruya's for Mrs Carew by at least one that the deceased administered the black on the 10th. This woman comes, if not whom Maruya's shopman, Hayashi Shio arsenic to himself; the other that it was adminis. in appearance into hearing, on the 10th, and she could not distinctly identify as Mrs. tered or given to him by someone else. If he himself disappears, as mysteriously as she appeared, but whom he believed to be Mrs. took the fatal dose he must have done so either on the 29th, after writing a couple of letters whom he believed was probably Mrs. intentionally or unintentionally-if in the first -one to Mr. Lowder and one to myself. and who signed the name. “ Mrs. case it would be a clear case of suicide; if un. The most diligent search to find any evidence and the same person called on the intentionally it would be a case of death by of her corporal presence, where she has stayed paid for the medicines and obtained misadventure. For the supposition that he or of her whereabouts during her twenty days' on which she had obtained ther deliberately committed suicide by taking arsenic stay in Yokohama has been ineffectual. Gentle, On the 20th, the day follow there is hardly a tittle or jot of evidence. The men, I take upon myself the responsibility of bottle of arsenic is procured on Mrs
written order by a messenger, a written order supposition, I think, may be safely dismissed. saying that in considering your verdict you
On the 21st The explanation which Mrs. Carew's evidence, need not complicate your minds much as to the which you have yourselves seen. given on the first day, was calculated to sug- share which such a person as Annie Luke may the day preceding Mr. Carew's death, a gest, was that the deceased, being in the have taken to the tragedy. It remains then ounce bottle of arsenicis procured from Maruya : habit of taking arsenic, of medicinally for you to eonsider the evidence of Mrs. by Mrs. Carew's written orders, by Mrs. dosing himself with arsenic, and having Carew herself. She admits that on 20th- own messenger, Miss Jacobs; and likewise on in spile of her remonstrances insisted after at first denying it-she sent an order to that day preceding his death a third half-om on being supplied with it, and she having found Maruya's for a bed-pan and a bottle of bottle is procured from the Normal Dispensa the bottle which she had given to him sealed Fowler's solution. She also does not deny the On the following day, at five o'clock Mr. in paper-the inference was that he had over- fact, testified by Miss Jacobs, that on the 21st died. Those are the main facts upon dosed himself and had died from the over- she procured another ounce bottle from you are to draw your own intelligent infer dose. With regard to that Dr. Divers gave Maruya's. Her own handwriting is in evidence in order to bring in your verdict. some very clear and convincing evidence. From to show you that on the 17th and 21st she like- reject the supposition of suicide or de the state of the viscera and the scientific con-wise procured half-ounce bottles from Schedel, misadventure, if you reject th olusions he drew, he considered it decidedly of the Normal Dispensary. In her first evidence Luke as largely imaginary, suppos improbable that the deceased had himself she admits having given the arsenic to her palpable, intangible, and unverifiable administered the arsenic from which he died. husband sealed up in paper. She denies, of necessarily driven to the conclusion th Arsenic, he showed, was not a cumulative course, ever having administered arsenic, to him must in some way have been medicine that is, it is not a medicine which if as a medicine during his illness. It will be for Mrs. Carew. If you come to
the evidence seems taken in small medicinal doses collects in the you to consider the probabilities of the case:
ystem and at last produces the effects of In coming to a conclusion as to the cause of hand was the hand that administer a poisonous dose; it is a medicine which Mr. Carew's death, as to how it was he was is rapidly eliminated from the system. The poisoned by arsenic, you will consider these evidence of the viscera indicated clearly to Dr. various theories-the theory of suicide, inten- Divers that not one dose but a repetition of tional or by misadventure, and the theory of had been given to deceased. Then against homicide by Annie Luke or by Mrs. Carew. It supposition that the deceased overdosed will be your duty, gentlemen I lay it down himself was the fact of the great difference as a simple canon of sound reasoning, upon tween a medicinal and fatal dose of arsenic this as upon other subjects to choose the by-
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