THE CONWAY CASE.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4305, 14 March 1901, Page 5

THE CONWAY CASE.

FURTHER EVIDENCE AT THE INQUEST. (Received March 13, 10.9 p.m.) SYDNEY, March 13. ; The inquest on the body of the man • Conway, who died on board the Talune, • while travelling from New Zealand, was : resumed to-day. ; James Thompson, a steerage passenger, deposed that he made Consvay'.s ac- ■ quaintanoe the day the steamer left Lyttelton. On the following Saturday lie saw a woman sitting with Conway on a hatchway. After leaving Wellington. Conway told witness something, and pointed out the woman sitting in Court (Mrs Smith). On the night Conway died lie and witness, after tea, played cards on the hatchway near the saloon until it became too dark to continue. Witness then went to his bunk. While there ho saw a woman look into the women’s cabin, also into the steerage cabin. It was the same woman he saw on deck when they left Wellington, and she was identical with the woman in Court. He did not notice where she . went after looking in at the cabin door. . A little while after he saw Conway on . deck, struggling in a fit. Jessie Fairless, a steerage passenger, deposed that on the evening of February 19th, a woman, a stranger, not one of the steerage passengers, came to the fore-cabin. It was the woman in Court. She was evidently addressing somebody, and said, I could not come before be- ] cause I have been too sick.” It was about half an hour after she saw the woman , that witness heard that a man had been i seized with a fit. pShe saw the woman , next afternoon standing at the foot of j the ladder leading to the forecastle. ] When the woman in Court first came to ] the cabin she said to witness’s mother , “ Are you the lady who has a daughter that lam looking for.” Her mother re- , plied, “No, I do not know yon.” e Frederick Liardet, a saloon steward s on the Talune, identified the woman in Court as a passenger who recently travelled on the vessel. On February 19th he saw her between Nos. 1 and 2 hatchways at about 7.30 p.m. She asked him if that was the way to the forecabin. He replied in the affirmative, handed her over the steam-box, and -saw her go to the fore-oabin. He did not notice her again till about B’ls, when he saw v her entering the starboard alleyway [ going aft. The same woman, when the 1 ship reached Sydney wharf, asked him. ( if they had taken the dead man ashore. The inquest was then adjourned till Friday.