The seventh day's proceedings in the trial of Mrs. Carew commenced on Wednesday, the 13th inst. The attendance of the public was large.
Mr. Justice Mowat expressed the hope that Counsel would expedite matters as far as possible, at the sime time reminding the Jusy of the gravity of the case and of the importance of the formal evidence.
A. E. Wileman, Acting-Registrar of the at the Inquest andi of thole remaining in Court, proved the putting in of the exhibits his custody till delivered to Mr. Moss for the purposes of the Magisterial Enquiry. The rim of one of the bottles (Dr. Baelz's prescription) was broken by a fall from the safe, and a very little of the contents was spilt: certainly nothing was added. Dr. Divers afterwards took about half of the contents, on the afternoon the of 4th of January'; he also took some scrapings from the fender, and on the 8th Me. Thomas did the same. Nothing else had been taken.
Hayashi Shichiro (Maruya's assistant) was next cross-examined by Mr. Lowder. He recalled his evidence, given on the 2nd of Noveniber last, as to the sales of arsenic on the 19th, 20th and 2st of October and his inability to identify Mrs. Carew. There was no prescription at the first visit, hut the names were written by the foreign woman in his presence; the writing was returned to her when she called to pay for the medicines the following day. Three different persons came for the arsenic on the three days, unless it was the first woman again on the third day. Tt was a foreign woman came on each occasion; a jipricsha.man also came on the 20th. On the 2ist Miss Jacob came; he could not identify Mrs. Carew us the visitor on either occasion. His knowledge of Miss Jacob dated froma long conversation on October 24th; he did not know her name, however, till he heard it in Court.
Hurry Vunsittart Dickinson was the next ness. He had resided in Yokohama since January, 1890, with the exception of four months in Kobe during the first year. He was a friend of Mrs, Carew's, and had always been friendly. h Mr. Carew, ex-getting for one serious quarrel years ago. He had been in frequent correspondence with Mrs. Carew while living at 160, Blut from the end of Septenber last; he' wrote as often as he heard from her.
The letters were then produced and witness proceeded to read them, in some eases supplying blanks from memory where pieces were torn off, in other owses failing to do so. A few extracts must suffice to recall the nature of the correspondence "Youask me, dearest, to. take time over answering your letter and in the same breath to give it you at tifin. Am. fice on a mail day with all its—~—terruptions is not an easy place and—do not know as I begin the how———where I shall end. What do you——ant me to say? It is impossible to go back to the old footing. e has altered all that and if you were a free woman I would ask you to come to me. You know this.
Long ago when I first knew you something of a passion for you would now and then come over me and ensy of the man who had you and nex when you are thoroughly estrange ed and have come to me for help what had easily checked before has risen again ith strength that is multiplied a thousand fold by the knowledge that now you love "Dearest, the scene of last night shall not take place again. We cannot help now I think loving. I know it is wrong but you! are not to blame I think so much as I, but for others' sake than ours' th—grosser sin shall be avoided. _Can——go on as we are? I do not see can help it "Iwent into all thie beginning only C:
with the honest int-——aiding you and cheering you up for.. and you enjoyed my coming. When I found your life so drear and empty of happiness that should have been yours my heart bled for you and I knew excuse anything you might do. It..." pity darling then akin to love and now I love you. I know that if you were free I would take you and keep you while. lasted and therefore I j now th——"
By Mr. Wilkinson.—This was in answer toa letter received from Mrs. Carew; it was destroyed and he could not recall it'
By Mr. Wilkinson.—Mrs. Carew had told' him she was exceedingly unhappy, that her husband ill-treated her. He knew inow to be untrue, but he honestly believed her then.
Mr. Lowder objected to words being supplied by witness in the letters, as it was a matter of guesswork, Mr. Wilkinson suggested that memory might properly supply what was destroyed, but aid not press the point.
cannot go to bed my sweet without writing a line..... My poor dear darling—I knew you would suffer for yesterday but it revealed to me more than ever dearest how much I loved you and how much you have become to me. think he must think you care for me (without an idea that I know and return Your affection) and though he probably does not know the extent you have gone he cannot but feel he has lost you and that you would if you could come to me. This must I think account a good deal for his horrible dislike of me. You know dearest, in one way I care nothing for Tf Thad you for my own I would laugh at his hatred. But I always do feel it badly in another way that even he——much as I despise pie loathe him——should have this hatred of me. It's very childish but I cannot get over the feeling. But I would not give you up for all the hatred of the whole clan and family of C—'s. I love you utterly my dear one and the remembrance of yesterday will beever with me.... If you refuse [to meet this woman] refuse on the ground that he has insulted you before others and you do not wish for a repetition refuse first on these grounds and after that on account of his relation to her."
By Mr. Wilkinson—That was in answer to Mrs. Carew's letter. He referred to Mr. Carew and Miss Bolitho. The alleged dislike of himself by Mr. Carew was founded in his mind on Mrs. Carew's statements alone; he believed now it had not existed. His whole information was obtained from Mrs. Carew, and the suggestions in the letter were solely due to that.
"*Ask Litchfield on Monday if in the event of your getting away with or without this consent if he can force you to return to him and if you find he has such a power then I should tell Mr. L. the real state of affairs, how it is impossible for you to really live with him as a wife and your wishes on the subject.
I hope you said the £100 which Carew had written for was done absolutely without your authority and that to say it was for you was simply afalschood. It is obtaining money under false pretences and I should like you to refer to this in your next letter and say that any money he asks for of yours is deserving only of one name. I know you have said this less mildly, but there is no harm in impressing them with the importance of it. If you succeed in thoroughly impressing them with the fact that all the use he now has for you is your money—otherwise he is thoroughly. tired of you and is treating you worse than any of his servants—they will wake up to the fact of his being a scoundrel and a mercenary one."
By Mr. Wilkinson—Witness was urging Mrs. Carew to go home, in the hope that her return in a year or two she would find things happier. "He understood that Mr._ Iarew was endeavouring to get control of all Mrs. Carew's money.
The Court then adjourned.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.