POISON CONSPIRACY
TWO WOMEN CONVICTED. SENTENCED TO EIGHT YEARS’ IMPRISONMENT. [Pint PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.] MELBOURNE, July 19. Clara.’ Cowell and Louise Berry pleaded guilty to a harge- of conspiring to murder Mrs King. Each was sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment with hard labour.
The Judge, referring to the enormity of the offence, declared that he could not distinguish it from the case of assassins who were paid to go out and kill.
At the inquiry before the Magistrate the police evidence showed that Berry called on Mrs King, representing herself as a 'friend of her brother. Mrs King asked her to have a cup of tea, after making which she Ipft the room. Returning she sipped the tea and found it to have a peculiar, taste. She did not drink the tea, and on examining it after Berry left she found that it contained sufficient strychnine to kill ten people. . When arrested. Berry made a statement that she, and Cowell had conspired to poison Mrs King. Cowell at first denied, but subsequently confirmed. Berry's statement, and added that Mrs King' had crlidlly treated and mined her. She wished to get rid o f Mrs King.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 July 1913, Page 5
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