THE CAIN MYSTERY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 4739, 13 December 1886, Page 2

THE CAIN MYSTERY.

h At the Resident Magistrate's Coup [ a Timaru, on Friday morning the hearing of a the charge against Thomas Hall of having y murdered Captain Gain was resumed. c Joseph John Hiskens, chemist's assis „ taut, deposed : I went to Mr Eichhanm's 11 in 1882. On the 28th January, 1885, J sold atropia eye drops to Hall, and on the ,f 4th November, 1885, I sold him a solut tion of atropia. To the best of my recol- ' lection Hall told me he wanted the eye drops for some animal, but I cannot say whether it was for a horse or a dog. lfc William Henry Trelford, John Wilson, '" and Harry Gardner denied that they had ever seen Hall use atropia to either horse c »r dog. v George William Gardner deposed : c About the end of January I saw Hall about pt a house. I offered him mine, and he said "I have been making enquiries about a 11 house, but Ido not wish to take one really, y as I expect Captain Cain will be dead in a kt day or two and then we shall get the house." I said, "Oh ! Then I suppose it !S will be too late for me to visit him," and '• Hall said that it would be. a Cross examined by Mr Perry :I do not c pledge myself to the exact words of the 1# conversation. Hall did not make use of the 0 words that Captain Cain "might die any , time." .Jane Ellis Newton deposed : Shortly »" after May, 1885, 1 went to live with the '" late Captain Cain, and with occasional S absences I remained there up to the time of his death. I think it was in November 11 that Hall first began to visit the house at . n Woodlands. 1 was not away from the ' house between November and January. From the end of November till the end of " January Hall was v frequent visitor to the huuso. It was the end of November when c he first began to see the Captain. Hall 0 used to come every morning. This continued up to the time of his death. Hal would be with the captain ten minutes or n so. I think that no person was present at n these interviews with the captain. Hall used to call again after office hours frequently during the week. He used to see '' the captain on those calls. There was a r nurse with Captain Cain, but I think she '■ used to leave the room when visitors came. n Towards the last Hall used to come as late c as 10 o'clock at night, and he sat with the captain all night on two occasions. This was about Christmas time. I was in the c captain's room several times when Hall n entered. Hall used to say, " 1 have business. I want to speak to your father." I ° have heard Hall asking if the captain had c had anything lately, meaning liquor. The ■" captain always wanted something to drink, n as he was suffering from thirst. I , have seen Hall give the Captain champasjne and his cough medicine. I can--1 not say I have seen Hall give Captain r Cain anything else Ido not think I did. There was some whisky and port wine in the room. I think the Captain had left off whisky from November to the end of January. The liquors I have mentioned were kept on a table behind a screen. I cannot say when the Captain first began to vomit. It was an old thing. As far as . I remember I saw the captain sick soon f after I returned to the house in Novemb ber, but Ido not remember that he made 3 any remark. He was sick before lunch. He was in the habit of taking wine or whisky when he came in from town, t After the captain returned from his drives before dinner he used to take whisky, i wiiui, or rum. He gave up drinking whisky when I went to the house, and , gave as a reason that it made him sick." 1 The words he used were, "It is strange i that I should have drunk whisky so many i years and now it should make me sick." i He took brandy a few times after giving up whisky but he did not like it. He then took port wine. He drank port till the end, and was not sick as when he took whisky. I remember Mrs Ostler dining at the house on one occasion, and that the captain asked for something to drink. There was a decanter of whisky on the table, and my father said, "Not whisky ; it makes me sick. S jmeone said that there was some wine in the cupboard." Hall then took a glass from the table and went to the cupboard, and poured out some wine — I believe port, but I cannot say for certain. I did not notice the contents of the glass. When it was put on the table Half poured sonio water from the jug into thu glass, and placed the latter at Captain Cain's side. 1 did nut remain in the room long ;ifter this, as 1 was ill, and went out. By the Court : I made a mistake in sayina that I came back in November. It wni about two days before the Timaru Show. It was a few days after that I saw my father siok. I can only say safely that n>),:e he was sick at lunch time, an 4 I think only myself was present. Ho was very sick. This was tho only time I saw him sick abou' this time. sir Whihi eaid that that was the last witness, and asked for a remand for seven days which was granted. SKINNY MEN'.— Wi-Uk' Health Kenewer rector ■■<= li< •< tli and viirm, <-v e-itl.va ej^i impotuice, sexual debility. At 'chemists' ml ilnigirists'. Kcuipthorno, l'roascr, and Co., ajj'-ut , Auckland.