THE ALLEGED POISONING OF CAPTAIN CAIN. '

Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 148, 6 November 1886, Page 2

THE ALLEGED POISONING OF CAPTAIN CAIN. '

« DIFFICULTIES IN THE WAY OF PROOF. A MISSING WITNESS. HALL'S LOVE LETTERS. IBy Telegraph.] (FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) Christchurch, This Dat. The interest here now is divided between the races and the Cain case. In reference to the latter I heard the other day when in Timaru that the capital offence will be most difficult to prove legally. A chemist's assistant named Stewart is wanted from Australia, to give evidenco, but it is not known whether he can give any. He was manager for Watkins, the chemist at Timaru, at the time of Captain Cain's death, but strange to say tho poison book he kept has disappeared altogether. None of tho other chomißts supplied any poison at that time to Hall, and the police cannot discover a traco of any purchases. Tho prisoner's wife, \i Ith her young child, came up yesterday from Timaru, to go on a visit to Hororata, the residence of Sir John Hall, who has shown hor great sympathy in her trying position. Thero can he no doubt about antimony having been discovered in Captain Cain's body. < Tho bladder was well preserved, ana in the urine was discovered large quantities of the poison. To old friends tie frequently complained that ho could not drink his whiskey, as it made him sick. Mrs. Newton, his only other daughter, was with him frequently, and is to be brought over from Molbourne to give evidence, but both lawyers and police are not very Banguino that sufficient evidence can now be gathered to convict of the capital offence. When Hall's effects were sold several batches of love letters were discovered in a private drawer carefully looked up. They were lotters of a most endearing nature from threo young ladies to whom he had been engaged prior to his marriage with Miss Cain. The lottors woro charitably returned to tho writers by the purchaser of the safe. The total forgeries of Hall amount to more than .£BOOO.