Alleged Husband Poisoning.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 230, 4 December 1888, Page 3

Alleged Husband Poisoning.

a Sensational case. Sydney, Nov. 19. At the Central Criminal Court to day Lousia Collins, in connection with whose trial for poisoning her second husband, a jury has twice failed to agree, was arraiuged on a charge of murdering her first husband, Ch Ties Andrews, at Botany, on tha 2nd of Feburary, 1387. 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 douWts 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 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 hud died somewhat suddenly, and to finding traces of arsenic in the exhum-d remains. The evidence, which was chiefly medical, was a repetition of that given at the inquest on the exhumed remains, and went to prove th >t the prisoner at'ended him most assiduously during his last illness. The finding of a small quantity of arsenic in the exhumed remains w>s proved by the Government Analyst. The woman’s first and second husbands were both insured. The ease was not concluded when the Court adjourned. [A recent cable message stated that the jury were again unable to agree, and prisoner Was romamled in cltstotly ~] . '