CHLOROFORM CASE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 10 August 1917, Page 7

CHLOROFORM CASE.

'ACCUSED ON TRIAL

BY TELEGBAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION. CHRISTCHTJRCH, Aug. 10. At the Supreme Court, William Kinnaird and Robert Erwin "Meachleni, who were not represented by counsel, were charged on various counts that on July oth, at Ohristchurch, with intent to commit a crime, they caused Andrew Hollo Guild and Enid Guild to be affected by chloroform. The Grown Prosecutor said accused had taken a room at the Clarendon Hotel under false names, going out late, at night in a taxi and returning early in the morning. The Guilds slept in a room opposite accused. They were awakened early in the morning and found on their pillow a handkerchief soaked with chloroform. Accused, when arrested, were found in possession of certain papers that Guild had left in his clothes overnight, and a bottle found elsewhere'had been identified as one in which Kinnaird had purchased chloroform. The Prosecutor read signed statements by the accused that they had merely soaked the handkerchief in chloroform and had thrown it into the room to test it. Kinnaird, on arrest, said, "I suppose we will get seven years for this." The case is proceeding.