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On the 22nd of October, 1896, Ms. Edith Carew was arrested on suspicion of murdering her husband, Englishman Walter Raymond Hallowell Carew, manager of the Yokohama United Club. Edith, who lived in the tight-knit foreign community of e Blu in Yokohama, was twenty-eight, had a lover, and was stuck in an unsatisfying marriage. She was charged with giving her husband, who took arsenic for a venereal disease, a larger, unwarranted dose of the substance, killing him. After Edith s arrest, however, Mary Jacob, the Carew family governess, was charged with Walter s murder after some suspicious letters appeared and there were reports that she had confessed. A Mr. (George Hawthorne) Scidmore, purported to be the only American law practitioner in Yokohama at the time, defended Jacob in court, and she was discharged at a preliminary hearing. Edith was eventually convicted, found guilty, and sentenced to death, a sentence that was later commuted to life imprisonment. After serving fourteen years (imprisoned alongside infamous Victorian murderess Florence Maybrick) she was released, and died in Wales in 1958. is book, a reprinted text from the Japan Gazette , has the manuscript note with the compliments of and personal stamp of G.H. Scidmore, Counselor at Law, Yokohama, Japan on the first page of text. Scidmore was the lawyer who represented the accused governess Mary Jacob in court. e book contains 42 pages on the inquest, 342 pages on the trial, and 23 pages titled Th e Carew Case on the arrest of Mary Jacob. A fascinating text and very rare, with only two copies located in OCLC. For further notes on the case please refer to Murder on the Bluff : th e Carew Poisoning Case (Whittington-Egan, 2012). In boards, probably not original but nevertheless contemporary, light wear to corners, starting. Sticker reading Regina vs Carew to spine. Lacking front free endpaper. Small mark to fore-edge. Light browning to page extremities. Almost unnoticeable repairs to extremities of five leaves. Printed note of the British Consulate in Yokohama dated 1897 tipped-in to last page of text. Overall very good to near fine. 1 v., complete. 42, 342, 23 p. 23.9 x 16.2 cm. Text in English. N° de ref. del artículo 916
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