ALLEGED HUSBAND POISONING.

Press, Volume XLV, Issue 7214, 27 November 1888, Page 5

ALLEGED HUSBAND POISONING.

SENSATIONAL CASE. [fboh oue oobbbsfokdent.J [By Telbgbaph from the Bluff.] SYDNEY, November 19. At the Central Criminal Court to-day Louisa Collins, in connection with whose trial for poisoning her second husband, a jury has twice failed to agree, was arraigned on a charge of murderiug her first husband, Charles Andrews, at Botany, on the 2nd February, 1887. It will be remembered that the suspicious death of her second husband under almost similar circumstances to that of her first, aroused some half-formed doubts in the mind of the medical man who attended Andrews in his last illness as to the real cause of death, he ' having at the time hod slight suspicions, but not sufficient to cause him to initiate a strict enquiry. The mentioning of these suspicions at the inquest on the second husband's death, led to the body of Andrews being exhumed along with that of his child which had died somewhat suddenly, and to finding traces of araeuic in the exhumed remains. The evidence, which was chiefly medical, was a repetition of that given at the inquest on the exhumed remains, and went to prove that the prisoner attended him most assiduously during his last illness. The finding of a small quantity of arsenic in the exhumed remains was proved by the Government Analyst. The woman's first and second husbands were both insured. The case was not concluded when the Court ad-, journed. [A recent cable message stated that the jury were again unable to agree,- and prisoner was remanded in custody.]