POISON IN THE TEA CUP.
A SENSATIONAL CASE
(Press Assn — By Telegraph— Copyright.)
(Received June 16, 9.40 a.m.)
MELBOURNE, June 16
Two young women, Clarice Cowell and Elizabeth Barry, have been remanded m custody on a charge of conspiring to murder Mrs King by placing strychnine m her tea.
The police evidence showed that the woman Barry called on Mrs King, representing herself as a friend of her brother. Mrs King asked her to have a cup of tea, and after making it left the room. On returning she sipped tho tea. It had a peculiar taste and she di.. not drink it. It was examined after Barry left, and found to contain sufficient strychninb to kill ten people.
When arrested Barry made a statement tliat she and Cowell had conspired to poison Mrs /King.
•Cowell at first denied) 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.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13102, 16 June 1913, Page 3
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