THE TRIAL TO-DAY,

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 183, 18 December 1886, Page 10

THE TRIAL TO-DAY,

December 10. The Cain murder case was re&xirned this murrtiug. The attendance of the public wa« very large, aud great interest \vaß taken itt ihe caso. No doubt that aa many people wcrd attracted by tho fact that Mrs Newcon waa to give evidence as from curios i-.y to see the prisoner. Mr Eeswick pio'udtid on the Bench. Tho prisoner, Ha at former 'sittings, occupied the dock, and was closely guarded by a warder. The counsel were the tame as on previous occasions. The first witness called by Mr White Wiia Joseph John Riskitie, who said : I am a chemist's acsibtant, and was 10 morly in the employ of Mi* Eicoauan. I know the prisoner Thos Hall. On tho 2Sch January [ sold Ball atronia oiodrops, and on -ith March, IPSS, a solution of atropia. To the bent of ray belief H?\ll, when he bought tho atropia in January, said he wanted oyedroos for one ot his animals. William Heury TrilforrJ, groom, living in Thnaru, deposed : Whilst 1 was in Hall's servico a mare of his fell ill, but tbero was nothing the matter with her eyea One of the foals had something the matter with its oyee. Some stulf was used for the foril'o eye, and it got right in about; a couple or 3 weeks after the stuff was brought. After Hall's marriage 1 asod to drive him to his office" round by way of Captain Cain's. He used to go that way every morning. When driving out of town from Hall's office in the evening I used sometimes to drive round by Captain Cain'?. Hall used sometimes to go to Captain Cain's of an evening about 9 o'clock, remaining about an hour or so and coming home about 1 1 o'clock. The cross-examination was unimportant. John Wilson, who, liko the previous witness, had been in Hall's employ, said that tne dogs, horses, and ferrets belonging to Hall had nothing the matter with their oyes. Witness used to drive Hall to and out of town, Hall culling at Captain Cain's house when goiug into town aud when coming out. Harry Garduer deposed : Sometime at the end of last year I treated a maio belonging to Hall tor influenza. There was nothing tho matter with her eyes with tho exception that she had a cold in them. Geo William Gardner deposed : About the end of last January I saw Hall about routing a house. He said, " I have been naaling enquires about a house, but I don't want to take one really, I expoct Captain Cain will bo dead in a day or t»vo, and then we will geb his house." Jc hn Fraeer said : 1 had a transaction with Hall and Mason. I gave them £300 to invest. Tho money has not been returned to me. The signature " John Fra-er " to this transfer oi a mortgage waa not mine and I never gave the firm ot Hall and Mason or Hall a promissory note. The Court then adjourned till 1 SO, when ' Miss Houston's evidence will be taken.