ALLEGED MURDER OF CAPTAIN CAIN.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7608, 3 December 1886, Page 3

ALLEGED MURDER OF CAPTAIN CAIN.

TlMAitu, Thursday, The, hearing of the charge against Thomas Hall of the wilful murder of Captain Cain was resumed this morning before Mr J. S. Beswick, R.SI. Richard Bowler Hogg, cross-examined by Mr Perry, said : The time of the appearance of antimony on the copper varied from fifteen minutes to au hour. There . was a constant repetition of the tests. The earliest time in my npt.es is fifteen minutes, and my impression is that we allowed the copper to remain in the liquid we were analysing for that period. The deposit was of a violent purple, distinctly marked in the first test (Keinisch's), and the color varied more or less in the other analyses by the same tests in respect to tho tint in a slight degree. There was no distinctly marked redness in the stomach in the body wl(en exhumed, so far as I can remember. Colchicum is a remedy for rhuematism, and atropia is used as an external application in certain eye affections. Dr Drew, Drake (sexton), and Webb (undertaker) then repeated their evidence as given at the inquest; also, Hutton (bookseller). W.m. Quinn, chemist, deposed: The book produced (B 11) is my sales of poisons book from February, ISS2, to the end of August, l&SB. On May sth, 1885, I find an entry of a sale of poison to T, Hall, namely, two doses of tartaric emetic. The whole of tho entry is in my haml- . writing except tho signature "T. Hall." I believe it to bo the prisoner's signature. On the 9.3rd of May, J. 885, I lent the prisoner a set of scales, a mortar and pestle, and a two-ounce measure. The weights ran down from two drachms to one grain. Hp never returned them. On the 18th of r June, JBBS, I sold him two drachms of antimony. I also sold him two drachms on June'26th of this year ; on July Oth I sold him two ounces of colchicum wine ' and a similar quality on July 17th and ' 31st and August 11th. In the poison--1 hook Hie entry was fully made when ' Hall signed. When he purchased aiitiI mony :Ins year he said he used it for making cigarettes for asthma. After Inspector Broham and Mr Will- ' way had repeated their evidence as given at Hie inquest, the hearing of the case ' was adjourned t'll 11 o'clock on the 10th > instant, and the piisoijcr was 'remanded 1 till that date.