THE CAIN MYSTERY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 4736, 9 December 1886, Page 2

THE CAIN MYSTERY.

The following is some additional evidence given by Mrs Ostler in the Cain Tragedy, and also the letter she received from Hall :— To Mr Perry : Hall has never quai relied with me. He wrote me a letter on the 30th June, stating that I must not go near the house to see Mrs Hall. I was not annoyed at this letter, as I knew the reason it bad been sent. I understood Hall wa3 refening to the doctors when he spoke of Captain Cain having something to make him die more easily. I never dreamt that he meant anything else ; not to Hall himself giving Cain something. To Mr White: This is the letter, the contents of which are as follows : — Timaru, 30th June, 1886. To Mrs Ostler, Timaru. Madam, — To prevent tho possibility of misunderstanding, or the chance of blame resting on the wrong shoulders, I beg to say that it was entirely by my desire that Mrs Newton suggested to you "that your visits to Woodlands should be less frequent than formerly. I waa ;nvare that you had never been triendly disposed to me, and that you had at different times, without any justification or right, not hesitated to go out of your way to say unpleasant things to me, Knowing this, it was impossible I could regard your intimacy with my wife with any feelings of pleasure, and I concluded that it was desirable that it should not be continued as closely as formerly. To show how thoroughly right I was I find that in your Bhort visit of yesterday you made full use of your opportunity to do as much mischief as possible. From my wife I learn that you tried to sow discord in my household, that you knew " a thing or two about me," and that I was afraid of you coming to my house. This is bad enough, to attempt to upset my domestic arrangements behind my back, but my wife tells me that you also went out of your way, and to a comparative stranger, accused my father of having "cheated the late Mr Ostler out of his run. " This is the expression, lam told, you used. The statement about myself I am indifferent to, but when the good name of my father is thus maliciously and slanderously impugned I am not disposed to allow ifc to pass, especially when made by a visitor to my house and to a member of my household. I must therefore hes,' that you will bo good enough to discontinue your visits in future altogether. — Yours obediently, T. Hall. To Mr White : Tho " unpleasant thing " Hall accused me of saying referred to my telling some ladies that 1 thought Hail was poisoning his wife. I told Mrs Newton that Mrs Hall was being poisoned, 1 was afraid, by Mr Hall. 1 thought at the time I received the letter that Hall had loft otf poisoning hia wife.