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THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
all that was read, SPECIAL TELEGR
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І варрове? suggesting that this
Lletters: continned on the 15th, Mrs. ry ill and completely exhausted, Christoffel's cross-examination was con-
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examination it transpired that the mous letter mentioned the previous day ritten to Mr. Norman Walter. Mr. Wilkinson, reading" Why did you go " what hill down that hill for your own sake;
that P-It was the hill reaching from No. 160 down No. 169
Had you seen him go down that hill P-Yes. Just state the circumstances. What time was it ? It was about ten o'clock at night on Sunday, the 25th Qotober.
How did you happen to be there at that time of night ?—I was delivering a, note written by Miss Jacob to Mrs. Carew.!
Did you take it yourself to the house ?-No, I stopped at the top of the hill and sent my two jinrikisha-men to deliver the letter.
Had they come back when you saw Mr. Walter-No, they were down at the house when he passed.
You say, "Keep away from that place;" what place do you mean?—No. 169.
Did you speak to Mr. Walter at the time? No, I have never spoken to him.
His Lordship You were asked if you spoke to him at the time, and you answered that you never spoke to him at any time.
Witness-No, I have never spoken to him. MrWilkinson-When you say, "Call this the product of a mad woman," who do you refer to there? To myself.
Mr. Wilkinson, reading, "I dare say she has gone mad," did you feel like that at the time? I felt that I was doing something that I hardly believed I could do: I mean in writing that note. Mr. C. D. Moss, clerk of the court, gave evi- dence as to the custody of the exhibits and as to the loss of one of them at the preminary ex- amination of the prisoner and its subsequent recovery.
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A coolie who took a message to Maruya's and an assistant of Maruya's were then called with reference to the delivery of a bottle of Fowler's solution of arsenic.
Mr James Tronp, H.B.M. Consul and as- sistant Judge, gave evidence as to presiding at the preliminary examination of the prisoner
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In the Carew case Mr. Mas handwriting, in his evidence expre distinct opinion that the prisoner v Annie Luke letters. He was positive that Mis Jacob's handwriting was different.
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{SHANGHAI, 20th January The case for the Crown is closed except the evidence of Miss Jacob and a letter to Sir, E. M. Satow, the Minister, --
Miss Jacob is seriously ill, pulse, 116, heart 132
SHANGHAI, 21st January.
In the Carew case at Yokohama to-day a letter to the Minister, Sir E. M. Satow, signed "A. L. Price" was read and the defence admitted that the prisoner was the writer.
The case for the Crown is closed. The defence opens on Saturday.
these letters, that Mrs. Ca That adverti certainly beyond the 11th.
11th On th
January
received another letter with the ini I will read you that letter
Mr. Lowder,
"It never occurred to you did it way” to join hɩm might be mail, it never occurred to yo disguise myself as well as my occurred to you did it that you never would find me. Who
my name eh? Is it AL or M Jor during my stay in Yokohama passing under some other name, eh
ALI "—LOWDER, Esquire,
"Wright's Hotel,
Yokohama.
It has "11th November" on the envelope, and I received it on 11th November. the 25th October the accused wrote Carew in reply to a letter which Mr had written to her. The contents of the are not of so much importance, but I will it, as I intend to put it in —
the case AGAINST MISS JACOB. A startling development in the Carew poison- ing case was reached on Sunday, 10th January. At half-past two o'clock in the afternoon Mr. Geo. Hodges, of H.M. Consular gaol, accom- panied by a turnkey and Mr. R. McCance, De- puty Marshal of the U.S. Consulate-General, proceeded to Miss Brittan's house, No. 2, Bluff, where Miss Jacob has been residing since she left Mrs. Carew's service on the 24th October last. Mr. Hodges was armed with a warrant from the British Court for the arrest of Mary
(The letter, which was dated Sunday, October Esther Jacob on the charge of murdering Wal- ter Raymond Hallowell Carew (on the 22nd 25th, and began “ Dear Mrs. Carew said in October, 1896. Miss Brittan being a citizeness reply to the note that the writer had received of the United States of Ameaica, a warrant from Mr. Lowder that evening that she re of permission to enter the premises at No.garded her engagement in Mrs. Carew's employ 2, Bluff, had to be issued by the U.S. Consul to be at an end. If Mrs. Carew had any ques General, and Mr. MoCance was accordingly tions to ask, the writer would answer them i present to see that Mr. McIvor's commands, put through Mr. Lowder, Mrs. Carew's counsel. that no obstacles should be placed in the way In reply to the message sent her by Mr. Lowder, of the law officers of the Crown, were carried asking her to take Mrs. Carew's children to Miss Jacob's room and effects were Kamakura for a week tho writer said she did out. searched. Miss Jacob was taken at once to the not intend to leave Yokohama at present, but if British Consular Gael and there she remained Mrs. Carew would send them to her “here,” it till brought up on Monday morning at 8.45 would make her very happy to have them with her. The letter was signed "yours truly, Mary o'clock.
E. Jacob."]
On Mr. James Troup, the Assistant Judge, taking his seat on the Bench,
Mr. George -Hodges read the following: " Regina on the prosecution of John Frederick Lowder versus Mary Esther Jacob, charges on oath that she on the 22nd October did murder one Walter Raymond Hallowell Carew."
His Honour-Do you appear in person, Mr. Lowder ?
Mr. Lowder-I appear in person, not pro-
SHASTROT
There is another letter, undoubtedly in her handwriting—the aconsed's handwriting. Porch. It bears the date 7th February, 1895, dressed to the mother of Mra Carew I put it in merely for the sake of the hand- writing. It is not necessary to read it.
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and to the fact of one of the exhibits being | fessioually, but as a member of this community the name “Lowder," cannot be distinguished
missed.
Mrs Martha Hodges gave evidence as to searching the prisoner and finding the missing
xhibit in her
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Mr. Troup was then recalled and read his notes of Mrs. Carew's evidence given at the Magisterial examination of Miss Jacob on the charge brought against her by Mr. Lowder of murdering Mr. Carew..
The case was then adjourned until the 20th January.
Under the heading of “A dastardly canard" the Kobe Chronicle has the following:
Reuter wired on the 14th that:
"A Dalziel telegram published here (Lon- don) states that the Carew murder trial at
Yokohama has terminated. Miss Jacob has confessed to the poisoning of Mr. Carew and to writing the mysterious letters."
inconceivable that this can be due to mieinterpretation of the telegram in office, and every honest and fair- person will desire that this dastardly is not dismissed by a mere denial however. emphatically expressed, that the author of it will be publicly named and punished in the manner be ves: We cannot believe that any journalist has been guility of such an the telegram has been sent by a duly accredited agent it will er myste to the remarkable r's agent at Yokohama, promptly wired home $500 has been information as to the
the telegram.
who considers it his duty to prefer this charge, Mr. Soidmore-I appear in the interest, of the prisoner.
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I shall submit to your Honour that the hand- writing on the envelope of the letter which received on 11th November, more particularly from the word "Lowder" which appears no les than three times in the first page of the letter of 25th October. I shall also prove by Mr. Porch, who is the brother of Mrs. Carew, that recently he found in the nursery a birthday book, on first page of which is written the name accused, “E, M, Jacob, June 28, 84, will tell you that between the leaves of that book a few days ago—last Friday, I think he discovered this piece of paper. Upon it written, first of all in italicised capitals ? Then there is a printed “ M.J.," with a no interrogation after it, and then the "1888." I shall ask your Honour to co the printed “ M.J." on this piece of the "M.J." printed on the card enclosed to Mr. Carew by his wife. come the word “regnlar. - What attach to it I don't know, but
A.L., first of all wit comes
A small "a, and A written as
A.L." is in the usual
the "A" with an upstroke and
tten down.. Undernes ter -- and under that is almost too lig that come four the ward the second “A.L.” which on 11th pare
Mr. Litchfield-Although this case is not instituted in this Court by the Crown, I appear to watch the case on behalf of the Crown.
Mr. Lowder then addressed his Honour, "Annie Luke" letters and reading the other papers, suggesting that they were written by Miss Jacob.. He said that the accused entered the service of Mr. and Mrs. Carew in 1895 and left it on the 24th October, 1896. Mr. Carew died on October 22nd, 1896, after a week's illness. He read the letter dated October 10th written by Mrs. Carew and sent to her husband telling him that a most mysterious lady had come and asked to see him. Mrs. Carew said she told her that Mr. Carew was not in, and that the mysterious lady said she would call again early in the evening, as she must see him. A letter dated October 13th, addressed to Mr. Chrow and signed " Annie" was also read. The inquest was opened on the 24th, and on the 29th, before the inquest closed, another anonymous letter was found on the front doorstep of Mrs. Carew's house, which said: "Beware! dare to sponk one word of the truth and you shall never leave Japan alive." The letter was not signed, but it was appar- ently in the same handwriting as that signed "Annie. On the 1st November,/Mr. Lowder said, the writer of these letters would seem to have been overcome by remorse, for the injury the and mischief-she had done and she wrote three letters all signed with the initials “AL Mrs. Carew, to himself (Mr. Lowder), and Mr. J. C. Hall respectively After these letters, which have already been published Mr. Lowder proceeded
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