THE CAIN CASE.

Press, Volume XLIV, Issue 6660, 27 January 1887, Page 2

THE CAIN CASE.

rCRMS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.t’i DUNEDIN, January 26. S 1 Twelve witnesses were examined to-day in the trial of Hall for the murder cf fe 1 Captain Cain, and the examination-®. 1 chief of Dr. Maclntyre was just concluded f A when the Court arose, but hia cross-exam!. ;’ cation takes place to-morrow. Mr Den. niston, in cross-examining Hutton, wha % sold Hall a book oa poisons, was Teiyii p stringent, and the witness did not show to 7 1 advantage. His means of identifying | book, which is now a pretty old one, with one which was fairly new when sold, wa# if not at all satisfactory to counsel. On the Court resuming, the witnea 111 l Stubbs was re-called. He said he wta> at Woodlands on January 26th an& 27th. Did not give Cain J|f pagne, but gave him brandy. It made r him siok immediately he took it. It was no sooner in his mouth than it was out. It was weak brandy and water. He was Ip told that the doctor’s instruction was that r only brandy should be given. Hall waa in the room three times only. He stayed a few minutes. Was positive that Cain wub sick after taking whitky, but not f| after champagne. Any number of persona might bare been in the sick room without ~ witness’ knowledge. Kay, who mined Cain, said Hall waa a.' if daily visitor after the New Year. Never stayed in the sick room while Hall was there, as he understood that Hall had If business with the C iptain. He jibbed on taking his cough mixture several times, saying it was nasty. He was oftener rick after it than anything else, and was sick $ after taking brandy or whisky. He f repeatedly complained of the cough mixture, and refused to take it on several days. There was scarcely a night that he was not rick three or four times, perhaps.,! more, but the sickness did not last long. As witness was describing the position of Cain's body before his death. Mr Higgitt interjeoted the remark ”He - *, stiffened himself.” * ; Mr Denniston accused the Prosecutor of putting words into the witness’s mouth,. H and said his conduot was objectionable. Mr Hsggitt— Tbis is intolerable. J§ The Judge said the witness’s attitude $s represented stiffuees. Mr flaggitt’s observation was legitimate. The witness said he meant stiffening. Witness remembered giving Jackson chsmpsgne. It was taken from a bottle used H for Cain. He took someone day himself, and felt squeamish. He was rick afterwards. He never had been like it before or since. Mrs Ostler deposed to being present atWoodlands one day in the early part ofDecember, when Hall poured Cain out | some liquor from a cupboard. It had the effect of making him so sick that he at once had to leave the room. The change. • was very sudden. It was Cain’s unex- i pectedly refusing to take the whisky which caused Hall to go to the cupboard. The evidence this afternoon referred to the sale of poisons. While Gunn was under examination, Mr Haggitt asked his Sueationa relating to the sale of poisons in une last. ■ •> Mi Chapman objected. The Judge said thisjpomt dearly cane within his yesterday’s ruling, and allowed, the examination to proceed. „ C The witness Ostler deposed that & ,j waa in great pain whan Hall epriw-Wta T the doctor's giving him something ‘to alleviate the pain, and he never heard Cain J express suoh a wish. He thought that he wanted very much to live. Grin could hardly see. Roderick Fraser Btewart was the first witness called after tho luncheon adjournment He said that he was a chemist in the employ of Mrs Watkins, at Timaru^ On November 13 tb, 1885, there was an entry of wine of colchicum (two ounces),, sold to the prisoner. t William Henry Willway, accountant to Mrs Watkinß, said that in the year 1885,, ‘ prisoner had an account with Mrs Watkins. The wine of colchicum spoken at by last witness, was paid for by the prt, % j •oner. . ;is| William Henry Tralford, groom, living | at Timarn, was formerly in the prisoners -Sf service. This was before Captain Grin's death. John Wilson followed him in the prisoner’s service. Witness left just after Christmas 1885. Hall had a foal which - got its eye hurt with barbed wire, Tha foal got its eye hurt shortly after Hall IK married. Another horse which had something wrong with its month was tent . down to Harry Gardiner's at Saltwater Creek. . To Mr Chapman—There waa something § the matter with the eyes of one of Hall's V Harry Gardiner, licensee of the Sparta- - man's Arms Hotel, Saltwater Creek, near §§ Timarn, stated that in 1885 he treated * -If horse for Hall. It wag suffering from in- i. fluenza to the best of his belief. This- ? would be in November. He steamed its I f head with hot bran. Neither of the eyes If , was affected. To Mr Denniston—luflnenza would lead to a slight affection of the eyes. John Wilsoo, apprentice to a painter is Timaru, said that in January, 1886,.1n entered the employment of the prisoner after Tiaford left, and remained them three months. There were horses, ferrets, >/■ and dogs about the place. Did not know | that there was anything wrong with these animals. Two cats died. Peter William Hutton deposed that hie sold the prisoner the copy of ” Hoadknd’e. 1 Action of Medicines,” produced, in May «f ■ | 1885; lent him “Taylor on Poisons,” and i j subsequently .cold it to him. Witness was closely questioned as to the ; : identity of the book ” Taylor on ' and persisted in raying it was the snot it book, though he could not give any distinctive markef identification. Dr. Mclntyre described minutely tha || prescriptions which he had made out far $ Captain Cain, and the symptoms of w > f latter’s illness, stating that there mt--.. nothing in the medicine he gave to cants ' the sickness from which the patient suffering. This sickness sometimes ah’ vl companied dropsy and disease of thekidneys, which Cain had, and the was partly intended to allay the sickne** pi He certified to Cain having died from disease of the kidneys and dropsy, but was ■ led to reconsider that decision. He led to this by Mrs Hall’s Bickneas, the whole symptoms of which he described | f after an ineffectual objection on Mr Chap*, 7;r man's part. He described bow the anti* p mony had been discovered by him, asd . then HaU was arrested; how for soat | | time after Mrs HaU continued to isopwW > as the poison left her system. Thiswss ; | followed by descriptions, so far as witness | knew, of the exhumation of Cain’s i*’ mains, and of the analysis of the .fff tents of the stomach. Then fcUowes ,£l questions as to the effects of antimony oft § | a person suffering from disease of the i f kidneys, and also as to the effect Captain Cain. A dose of two grains ® antimony had been known to till, #» ; 71 would probably kill Captain Cain. prated two-grain doses would be kill him. Newly all the well-known symptoms of antimony poisoning . 1 present in Cain’s case. The * colchicum and atropia poisoning '■s§! described. Neither poison was iraosae* f after death. iNone of these poisons*** - present in any of the mediciae* presence 9 by witness for Cain. The cross-examination was postpone 9 : till next day, and the Court rose. _ M Mr Wakefield and several witneeaMM*' 31 to be called for the defence. It u J®* doubtful if the case will be concluded tn»week-