THE POISIONED CUP.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVII, Issue 141, 17 June 1913, Page 7

THE POISIONED CUP.

VOCNvi WOMAN'S CRIME

ATTEMFI AT'-MUItDKH

[Press Association.!

MELBOURNE, June 16. Two young women named Clarice Oowell and Elizabeth Barry have been remanded in custody on a charge of conspiring to murder a Mrs King by placing strychnine in her tea. The police evidence showed that Barry called on Mrs King, representing herself as a friend of her brother. Mrs King asked her to have a cup of tea. After making it she left the room, and on returning sipped the tea. It had a peculiar taste, and she did not drink it. She examined it after Barry' left and found that it contained sufficient strychnine to kill ten people. | When arrested Barry made a state- } ment that she and Cowell conspired to | poison Mrs King. j Cowell at first denied the charge, ? but subsequently confirmed Barry's statement. She added that King had . cruelly treated and ruined her, and ; she wished to get rid of Mrs King.