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The summing up was, I submit, in apart from the distress she was of her husband, to drive her dia and it was in a fit of distraction that ote the letter. It bears date the 6th November, which was the day on which the Coroner summed up, and was written whilst she was smarting under a sense of the in- justice that had been done to her, and it is not surprising that she should applg to her Minister for redress. Had she signey her own name to the letter, no one could found fault with her. The signind the name of Mr. Price, who was a great friend of hers, cannot of course be defended: but it does not form the smallest particle of a link in the evidence of her being quilty of the crime of murder. She was the person accused; and she therefore thought that if the Minister's attention were drawn to it by one of the public, the complaint would carry greater weight and be likely to receive more attention. So she ohose the name of a great friend of hers, who did not happen to be in Japan, and who could not therefore be compromised by the use of it; disguised her hand as best she could; and posted the letter to the Minister. She has evidently made an attempt to disguise her handwriting; bat so poor a one as to make it impossible to believe she could be the writer of the Annie Luke letters. If she had been able to disguise her hand as the writer of those letters did, she would certainly have done so when addressing the Minister under an assumed The letter also shows that she was not practised in imitating the handwriting of other people; for she did not imitate the signature of Mr. Price. That is the explanation I have to submit to you with reference to the letter addressed to the Minister. The learned counsel at this point said that he would have to apply that the jury should have an opportunity of inspecting the house. He did not make any application for an adjourn. ment over that afternoon, but as he had not quite finished the notes of his address to the jury, if it would be convenient for the jury to make the visit that afternoon it would be a great convenience to him.
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It was accordingly arranged that the visit should be made that afternoon, and Mr. Porch having been called to formally prove the plan put in the Court adjourned until Monday, the 25th January.
MONDAY, 25TH JANUARY, FIFTEENTH DAY'S PROCEEDINGS.
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There was, the Japan Mailsays, a very distinct falling off in the attendance of the general pub- lic as compared with Saturday. What might be termed the regular habitués of the Court- persons from China Town and its purliens-had began to lose interest in the proceedings, and the attendance was principally confined to the merchant class of the community. The accused looked pale but cheerful when the proceedings commenced, but as the day drew on she was fain to rest her head wearily against the side of the dock at more frequent intervals than on the days in the proceeding week. Yet not a word from counsel or bench seemed to escape her
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of Mr. Lowder's address, when he became most impressive, the prisoner's head sunk almost from view below the level of the box, and when next her face was visible her eyes were red with weeping.
Mr. Lowder-Gentlemen, I interrupted the strict sequence of my address to you on Satur- day because I was anxious, at the earliest possible moment, to dispel any misunderstanding that might have arisen in your minds owing to the production of the letter addressed to the British Minister, and to my resistance against its being offered in evidence against the prisoner. But I will now proceed to consider a point which I purposely left uncovered on Saturday, as it required to be treated separately. I refer to the purchase of the first bottle of arsenic at ya's shop. Now there are, at all events, o undoubted fasts in this case, and that is that from the very beginning the two prin- cipal witnesses against the prisoner (leaving out consideration for the moment the evidence foh she may be said to have
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ou will not have the | Hayashi tunately, is not available. opportunity of seeing her, or of hearing her tes- timony, except as it has been read to you. It is possible that you may be asked to infer, or that you yourselves may think, that the charge I have made against her was preferred with the unworthy motive of excluding her evidence. As to that, it may be sufficient to point out to you that it was quite impossible for me to foresee that she might be taken ill; and, in the second place, his Lordship will
to you that in charging less explain her with being the writer of the series of letters known as the "Annie Luke" letters, and in opening the evidence in support of that charge, as I did before the Magistrate, I was giving to her, and to the counsel for the prose cution, evidence that I might have sprung upon her in cross-examination, and which she and they might not have been able to meet at the moment. They thus had full warning of one of the points to be made for the defence in this case, which was of the greatest advantage to them. So much for that incident. But I wish to call your particular attention to the evidence of the wit- nesses Hayashi and Jacob, so far as relates to the most important dates, viz., 19th and 20th of October.
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Jacob and Christoffel, who we the 24th paid for the previous bed-pan and a bottle of arsenic. is, how did they know, or how could the that Marnya's shopnian would give order to any one asking for it on bein the thing ordered unless one of ther the same thing before ? Then agai Jacob fail to communicate to her mistr message sent by Hayashi on the 21st a message of great importance; but she co herself with mentioning it to Mr. Porch, and in so casual a way that, as she herself says, he didn't seem to understand the drift of it. ~ But though she doesn't give the message to mistress, she speaks about it to Christoffel, who speaks about it to her master, and so, unknown to Mrs. Carew, a rumour is spread about that Mrs. Carew has poisoned her husband. And why was the name of Marnya not communicated to Dr. Wheeler until late in the morning of the The learned counsel then entered on a long 22nd? He had been in personal communication and minute analysis of the evidence as to with Jacob on the subject earlier in the day, the purchase of arsenic, and continued-But and she could have given him the name of the there is a great deal more to be said about the shop where the arsenic was purchased had she 19th. The two pilfering thieves, Jacob and been minded to do so. Her reticence on that Christoffel, some time in September, when, ap- point is, to say the least, suspicions, as indicating parently, the first Dickinson letters were writ. that she might have known that it would have ten, conceived the idea of collecting and been better to have further enquiries | in- stitching these letters together. The reason stituted. Now as to the 19th. In order to show given for doing so, by Christoffel, is that she that Mrs. Carew, as a matter of fact, was not desired that her friend's character should be down in the town as alleged by Jacob at the protected, in the event of Mr. Carew's finding magisterial inquiry, and as she was, at all out that visitors, not altogether friends of the events as late as the 5th January, when the family, were admitted into the house. Now that prosecution opened, prepared to swear before reason is untrue, on the face of it; because Mr. you I shall adduce the following evidence Dickinson was a friend of the family, and Mrs. Carew's diary; 2. The evidenco of because, unless these letters had been put lady, whom I shall call, who was with Mrs. together, and at all events partially read, Chris- Carew that morning about 10.30 to 11:30; 3. toffel could not have known that they were of a Mr. Walford's evidence of a conversation with compromising character. At all events, they Hayashi on the 26th Nov., when the latter were collected and pieced with the obvious in- timed her visit as having taken place tention of being used against Mrs. Carow in noon, a little before rather than after, 4. some way. I shall, I think, be able show you evidence of a gentleman that he lunched at the that Ah Kwong, a Chinese boy, who was in the Carews' that day, arriving some little time before service of the Carews, was also employed and
noon, when Mrs. Carew came downstairs to meet paid by Jacob to pilfer the waste-paper basket; him; 5. The evidence of another lady that she in which case the finding in her possession of saw Miss Jacob at about 11:15 that morning, papers, written to Mrs. Carew by her from the Main Street, with both the children. I come now to the 20th. I asked Dr. Wheeler at No. 2 Bluff, and which ought therefore to be in
To what time his visit was paid to Mrs. Carew on Mrs. Carew's possession, is accounted for. return, however, to the 23rd or 24th September. Wednesday, 20th; and he said it was paid in Rachel Greer will tell you that she BOW the forenoon, as soon as possible, about eleven. Jacob piecing together one of the letters before Hayashi says that he should judge from the the visit of the Carews to Miyanoshita; that entries in his book (though the time of the visit when she had succeeded in ascertaining what is not entered) that the visit of the foreign was in it she danced with joy, and read a por- woman that day took place about 11 o'clock in tion of it out to Rachel. Evidence will also be the forenoon. Now, without going into minutes, given to show that Jacob had on several oQ- or tens of minutes, or even half-hours, it is obvious casions been seen to enter her master's bed that if Mrs. Carew was at home to receive Dr. room, in the absence of Mrs. Carew And if, Wheeler at about 11 o'clock that morning she as I suggest, these letters were collected to could not have been at Maruya's shop at the same. serve as a weapon of defence if, and when, Mrs. time, or anywhere near it; but on this point I Carew
should discover the true relations am happy to be in a position to call a witness, Ta- between Jacob and the deceased, we at all events kayama Sadakichi. He remembers taking Mrs. have au intelligible theory which would fully Carew down town on the morning of the 20th, account for the collection of the letters. At and he will tell you the places at which he called, all events, they were to be made use of in some and will say that Marnya's shop was not one of way against Mrs. Carew. Having thus es- them. He is unable, to remember the hour of tablished a desire on the part of Jacob to in- his departure or return, but he knows the jure her mistress, it is not difficult to under-returned. with Mrs. Carew before noon on the stand why she falsely alleged that Mrs. Carew 20th. These things being so, not only is Jacob had been down in the town on the 10th Octo- proved to be endeavouring, for purposes
own, to fix Mrs. Carew with the first ber That she herself was down in the town that day she admits; and when she was un-of arsenic, and giving the date of th der the impression that arsenic had be 'n par- of the first; but it is absolutely chased at Maruya's on that day, by a person believe Sadakichi's ovidence, tha
who made the first purchase of signing the words "Mrs. Carew" she en- deavours to fix a falsehood on her mistress for the purpose of showing that she was the person who purchaseed arsenic on the 19th. And it can have been no mere mistake on her part, for she gives circumstances to show that she cannot have been mistaken as to the date-and the 19th was the day on which the mail was delivered. Now Hayashi, on each occasion that
ainst herself) have been, as accumulated he has been before the Court, has been con-
the purchase fronted with Mrs. Carew, and has been unable Arsenio at Maruya's shop, the witnesses to recognize her as the person who came to his the 20th. Hayashi and Mary Jacob. Mary Jacob, unfor- 1 shọp, whether on the 19th or
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said to have been made. of the 20th, was not Mrs. Carow one who was personating her, who brought the only bottle of chlor sold at Maruya's on that day into the house. Who that person was I canno is enough for the purposes of the
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