SENSATIONAL POISONING CASE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 217, 13 September 1899, Page 4

SENSATIONAL POISONING CASE.

ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO MURDER

DYING DEPOSITIONS TAKEN,

STORY OF A NEIGHBOURS QUARREL.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, this day.

Police Commissioner Tunbridge was j this morning- able to communicate to the press brief particulars of a poison. I ing ease at Oliau, on the Manawatu line. Mrs Giles, described as the wife of I a platelayer on the railway, was this j morning arrested by Chief-Detective j MeGrath on a charge of attempting I ■to murder Mrs West. Accused ap-1 peared before Mr J. P. W. Levin, and! was remanded for eight da3*s. '

Mrs West is in a very precarious condition, and her dying depositions have been taken.

The parties live about a quarter of a mile from each other. There has been a long standing.neighbour's feud between them, but towards the end of last week this was to a certain extent patched up, and Mrs West ac cepted an invitation from Mrs Giles to pay her a visit, which she made on Saturday afternoon.

Upon her arrival at Giles' house Mrs Giles gave her a cup of tea, which she drank. Mrs Giles then pressed her to accept a second cup. In handing it to her, she alleges, Mrs Giles told her she need not stir it, as she had, already stirred it.

Mrs "West thereupon drank the tea* and immediately took ill.

Mrs Giles said she did not care about her being ill in her house, and persuaded her to go home. Mrs Westthen left the house, and was taken, seriously ill on the road home, vomiting violently.

She was found by a settler in a col* lapsed condition, and the police were subsequently communicated with.

Some vomit was sent to Mr Skey, Government analysis, who found abundant traces of arsenic. h

The parties are middle-aged women,