CONSPIRACY TO MURDER.
CHARGE AGAINST TWO YOUNT
AVOAIEN
A MELBOURNE SENSATION
[UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHTJ MELBOURNE. June 16.
Two young women, named respectively Clarice Cowell and Elizabeth Barry, have been remanded in custody on a charge of conspiring to murder a woman named Airs King by placing strychnine in her tea.
The police evidence showed that the woman Barry called on Airs King, representing herself as a friend of her brother. Airs King asked her to have a cup of tea, and after making it ieft tho room. Oil returning she sipped the tea. It had a peculiar taste, and she did not drink it. It was examined after Barry left, and found to contain sufficient strychnine to kill ten people.
AYhen arrested Barry made a statement that she and Cowell had conspired to poison Airs King. Cowell at first denied, but • subsequently confirmed Barry’s statement. She added that King had cruelly treated and ruined her, and she wished to get rid of Airs King.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 3960, 17 June 1913, Page 5
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165CONSPIRACY TO MURDER. Gisborne Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 3960, 17 June 1913, Page 5
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