SYDNEY MYSTERY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 206, 25 May 1908, Page 7

SYDNEY MYSTERY.

ALLEGED POISONING. "~7 v.. TRACES OF ARSENIC FOUND. ANALYST'S REPORT. fIV;TEI/EGKAI*IJ PRESS 'ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT. (Rec. May 23, 7.53 p.m.) Sytinsy, May 23. ■ Tho 'v'Gorornmoni;;-,Analyst reports'' that .though,lio has not,, fully completed the analysis ;of :;the: remains of tho wharf labourer. Alox. Brown, lio has found .'trapes of arsonic in the stomach-an(r tho liver. \ ' .. v.CinCUMSTANCES OF THE: DEATH. . It. .was cabled, on Friday that Jane Baikie Mdflcea formally..charged- with- the murder of -■Brown.',. 'In Connection with:, his death, tho 1 cablegrams have intimated that sensational ila- . . ™°P™onts are Cxpeeted. 'It.-j.is. said that, though, a..wharf' laoouror, Brown had considerable property, and that■ colour was lent to this proposition by the fact that he usually °. W- 8 i a -. Q'loiitit.T. of expensive, jewellery, and dressed^ well. Prior to ,his: death ho appeared, - except'for the malady to which he succumbed,to; bo. a . healthy man, and was conspicuous ~ as,-,the possessor of-a lustssivo' physique. Ho ... ,n,s on.-April. 15 admitted' to the Roval Princo Alfred /Hospital, : Sydney. His easo ;Ya.i <li#g- ' nosed ; there. as. peripheral - neuritis, or inilam'niatioicof' tho nerves in an acute form.' On . April 25. .he took: a sudden bad. turn, and died, r There seemed nothing suspicious in tho case to ' tho..hospit'al authorities, but a post mortem'ex-. nmination/'.was. made,-, and a , certificate issued ' : in accordance: with tho .diagnosis.The body, was bnriedon-.'April 27, in the'same grave with {. that,of .'/Brown's jwife/.who died a couple' of As .the .result of, subsequent police ' representations,., the Coroner' ordered the ex- , humafcio'n. of-the-body.';. The symptoms of neur- : itis,- from .which-" Brown was , supposed i to, have died, aro said. :to bo. .identical .with those of arsenical poisoning.''