Carew, Edith Mary (1868–?)
Carew, Edith Mary (1868–?)
English murderer. Born 1868 in England; dau. of John Albert Porch (mayor of Glastonbury); m. Walter Carew, May 1889 (died Oct 22, 1896).
Lived in style with husband Walter in the European quarters of Yokohama (Japan); after he died of arsenic poisoning (1896), was charged with his murder; at her trial, which took place under judicial authority of British Consul (1897), her love letters from a bank clerk were produced; found guilty and sentenced to death, saw sentence commuted to penal servitude for life by British ambassador; confined in Aylesbury Prison in England.
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