Never before in the hundred years'-history of Australia has a female criminal become so notorious as Louisa Collins, the murderess of one man, and the suspected poisoner of one other, if ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,461 wordsthe first husband, and supposed victim of the woman, was a native of the Waterloo borough, ids father having, for many years, been a local identity as a collector of curios and ...
Article : 359 wordsof Charles Andrews must have been a terrible one. The agonies of acute poisoning, especially arsenic, are terrible, and the griping pains occasioned by the administration of the drug must ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,760 wordswere Herbert, born in the country; Reuben, now about 19 years of age; Arthur, 17; Fred, 14; May, 12; Edwin, 8; and Charles, 5; the last six being born at Botany. Since the home was so ...
Article : 125 wordson the body of Michael Peter Collins was commenced at the City Coroners office, Chancery-square, Sydney, on July 10, Mr. Henry Shiell, J.P., presiding. Owing to the quantity of evidence ...
Article : 664 wordsSome of the oldest residents in Botany and Waterloo remember the time when Andrews returned from the country with his young wife and child, and took up his residence in Berry's ...
Article : 989 wordsas to the object aimed at by the murderess in the committal of the horrible crimes of which she was accused have not been so numerous as is generally the case in trials for ...
Article : 341 wordsare related in connection with the career of Louisa Collins, and the more venturesome go so far as to attribute to her other tragedies. Among these may be mentioned the ...
Article : 398 wordsSince her conviction and sentence, on December 8 last, Louisa Collins was confined, not in the usual "condemned cells" which are in the "male division" of Darlinghurst Gaol, but in a ...
Article : 1,395 wordsThe history of this notorious case would be incomplete without reference being made to the smartness displayed by the Botany police in working up the cases. The carious nature of ...
Article : 305 wordsat the Central Criminal Court. The frist trial, for the murder of Collins, was commenced on Tuesday, August 6, 1888, before Mr. Justice Foster and a jury of twelve, the following being ...
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Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), Tue 8 Jan 1889, Page 3
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