GOVERNESS, The trial of Mrs. Carew for the alleged tourer of. her husband by poisoning him with arsenic opened at Yokohama. on Tuesday last (the Sth of January) before Mr. Justice Mowat and a jury consisting of Messrs. Andr. Patterson, Joe. Davieson, Duncan MacLaren, A. H. Cole Watson, and RB. ©, K. Johnson. Needless to says very great interest is being taken in the proceedings and. the reports are being followed with the closest interest. As your readers are aware, the prosecution is in the able hands of Mr. LIS. Wilkinson, Crown Advocate at Shanghai assisted by Mr. Litchtield, Crown Pro. sector at Yokohama, Dr. 'T. H. Tripler being associated with them as medical adviser presumably to off-set the assistance Mr, Lowder, counsel for the defence, can command in the person of Dr. Stuart Bldridge. Both gentlemen are American physicians. The whole of the available time on Tuesday was taken up with the examination-in-chief of Dr._ Wheeler, the Carew family's medical attendant. On Wednesday, second day, the Court was occupied with the cross-examination and re-examination and with the evidence of Dr. Howard J. McLeary Todd, of H.B.M.'s Naval Hospital, Yokohama, On the third day Dr. Percival M. May of the Royal Naval Sick Quarters (which it seems is the name by which the Hospital is officially known inthe service) was in the witness-box, as well as Messrs. A. H. Lay and J. B. Rentiors of H.B M.'s Consulate, Yokohama, and three Japanese, who handled the sealed box containing the viscera, etc., on its way from the Naval Hospital, where the post mortem was held, to Dr. Divers, Professor of Chemistry in the Imperial University. Tokio. The testimony of the medical men was unanimous, not only that the deceased died from arsenical poisoning bat that the drag was not self-administered. On Friday and Saturday, the fourth and fifth days. the evidence of Dr. Munro, who attended the deceased in 1893, and of the managers of the thre chemists' and druggists' establishments at Yokohama was taken. Phe testimony of Dr. Munro was the first to throw a more favourable light upon the case as it affects the. prisoner. On Saturday and to-day the Court has been engaged taking down the evidence of Mr. J. Carey Hall, H.B.M.'s Consul at this port, who, it willie remembered, conducted the inquest. So far I cannot see that anything startlingly new has been licited, and it was therefore with intense. surprise that the news of Miss Jacob's arrest burst upon us to-day. As already communicated by wire the governess was arrested yesterday afternoon, at Miss Britran's boarding house, No. 2, Bluff, where she has been staying since separate ing from Mrs. Carew after the inquest. Miss Jacob was examined before Mr. 'Troup, H.B.M.'s Consul and Judge, at Yokohama, this morning. She was' arrested upon a charge lodged by Mr. Lowder, who said he expected to be able t" show that Miss Jacob was the writer of the now famous Annie Luke letters and therefore the avowed murderer. Evidence was given by Mrs. Hutchison (with whom I believe the unfortunate little children of the dead man are residing) and the case was then remanded till to-morrow morning. Mr. G. H. Scidmore is watching the case on behalf of Miss Jacob, for whom, according to my advices, sympathy is expressed in the trying situation in which she is now placed. Meanwhile the trial of Mrs. Carew has been adjourned until Wednesday morning. Of course interest runs high down here and great indeed is the surprise at the turn affairs have taken. Nothing came out in Court on Saturday to render a farther arrest likely, and it can only be that Mr. Lowder hes at last discovered a clue to the authorship of the Annie Luke letters. Rumour cays there will be more disgraceful disclosures, but that tie alone can reveal.
Kobe, 1th January.
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