MRS NEWTON'S EVIDENCE.

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

MRS NEWTON'S EVIDENCE.

Timauu, December 11. The Court resumed at a quarter to two, when Mrs Jane Ellis Newton was put into the box. She said: "I reside at present in Melbourne. Shortly after the mar j iage of Hall, I went to reside at WoodUads with my father, the late Captain

! Cain, and, with occasional absence,, 3 remainod there until frfo death. My , father and accused wo-o not on good terms at, the time of the latter's • marriage, but they afterwards became , ft fondly. JrlaH iirsb begao> to vbife ; Wood lands about November, and from Uie end of Novombor to tho end of > January vas^ a irequant visitor to tho bouso I was ab-jont twice on a, ' vis-ifc fro ro the houso between Juno and Captain C'lm'a dc^lk 1 returned horn a. vteil in tha beginning of November,, aud Hah c tiled to pee me, bat did not &ea Gapt. Cain.^ litfil did notbegi,, to eeo him till tho end of November, H* j n'rstf visit was in Uhe minimi^. Ho called every morning duringthu week, and continued to do so up to tho H'no ot hirf death, lie would be with the* \\.pijm 10 minuter or =o. I think no. oth-.ia wee prob3.it ni. bho«c interviews. Towards Iho last Ui>\\ called onco or I vyic*> at H at night. Hall bat up twice with tho captain all night about Christmas i July. 3 did not remembor whetherihcy woro con?ecativo nighre. I wasiu the captain's lo'im several uigbts when Hall enroled. He used to any to mo, 4t I liavo business; 1 want to ppeak to jour Lithe/." Be never made any o her rcqutao to my remembrance. I u-ed fco leave the room, a=3 I took it as ait intitoation that I v,aß to do co. When, tli-ll entered he u>ed to say, "JBEow aro you to-night, Gaplain ? ' I bnve heard him tihk the Captain if ho had had anything latolv. 1 could not say what the Captain replied as I was leaving the room. TheCapt. always wanted Bomothing, as he puffered irvm thirst. I have seen Hall giver him champagne and some cough mixture. The Captain aeked lor conglh mixture fiom all visitors. I think that champagne was tho only thing that Caploin i aiu drank at that time. I cannot b-iy whether J caw Hall give Ciptain Cainnnythtng else. There wa? whisky kept maa i oom, also port wino Tho Captain left cfl' taking whieky from November to Jannary. Th*) things I havo mentioned were L'tpfc op a table in the sick-room. From the time the Captain took to his bed the things *vero kept on a table bsbind a, screen ia. the dining (sick) room. ' 1 cannot cay tt hen 'he Captain ntvfc began to vomit. Ifc was an old thing-, to far as I can remember. I saw the Ca plain pick in the room after Z l&turned to tho houso in November, bu.6 don't lemtmaer if he w ado an y remark. I CO not know 1o what ho attributed, tho eicknec-s. Jdo was sometimes sick before liinch. lie was in the habit of taking a rank of A\ino or whisky when he came iv iroin his drive fiom town before his dinner. would take either a pla°s of wine, v.hi«ky, or rum, but &cmc time in Novectiber he gave up drinking whisky. He gav€t, it up becau&o it mode him s>ick, He eaid it | was a stxtitige thiop, after he lvad drunk | "\\ hisky so many years, that now it made him ; tick. On leaving off tha whisky, he j took to brandy a iew times, and next he took pr»rfc wive <o the end. Ho was sick after this, but I can t remember if it was irom port wine. Ha Mas not so sick as when he dranlc whibky. I remember dining one Sunday with Mrs Ostler Hall, my father, and, I think, Mi=3 Gillon. I remember the Captain asking for something to drink. Hall was going to give him some whieky. I think tin* was the fiist tim'Q Hall was thpre to lunch. Hall was going to get the whisky from a decanter on the table when the Cviptam Paid, "Kot whisky, il make! me sick." Somo one then said to Ll,i'l " Tho wine is in tbo cupboard." On being asked to state who said thin, ]\Lr Perry objected, but on Mr White stjtina: that the matter was of little importance, the taking of the evidence was continued. Wiu>oss : Kail then took a prlass from the tablo and went to Lhe cupboard and poured out some wino It waa port or sherry — X aon'l know t which >or certain 1 bolieve. it was poit. He puc the glats on the tjiblo, but I did not notice the contents particularly. Hall next poured gome water into tho glaf-s, and put it alongside of the Captain. I didn't lemain in the room long atter thi?, oa I v.-as ill, and went out. X could not Eec what Hall poured out of the cupboard. His back was to me, but I could not see whether he Mag standing or I took no particular notice of him The Captain was blind of ono eye. Ab tins time thoro were two bottles of whiaky In the sick room, • oth in the same liquor stand. There were no bottles of whisky in thaother rooms, There was none in any o\jher decanter, nor did we keep a bottle in the hou=»o for visitors' separate uso. This concluded thi oxaminalion in chief. To Mr Perry : Hall camo to see me before^ ho was frionvily with Captain Cain, T remember that the Captain had been gick after I came back early in November, and: before Hall became friendly I aaw the Captain eick. Hall did nofc see the <. apfcaia at lhi& time so far as I know. Re-examined by Mr White : I savr my father sick about a couplo of days after my return. I was alto told ho had been sick: at other times. It was after I caino baelc from Dunedin that Hall and my father became reconciled. I heard before I! returned that they had spoken, I don'fa know from Hall whether they had seen each other before I returned. 1 cannot say if I was present at the reconciliation. X cannot cay whether it was days or weeks* after I returned that they became friendly* Mr White : Do you know if Hall and. your father had an interview before you returned from Dunedin ? Witness ; I cannot remember. Ido not* remembor my tister telling me, in Hall'ift presence, that a reconciliation had taken, place, I waa first informed in Dunedin thatHall had spoken fco Captain Cain. Mr ferry again objected- Witness kaci become cognisant of the fact by letter Such evidence waa objectionable. Ho, would ask His Worship to give him ecnvml rights with counsel for the Crown. His Worship upheld the objection, bufc added that virtually the answer to the> question was already in evidence. Mr Perry : Mv objection being upheld, II hope counsel will le'ive this point. Mr White i As the answer i 9 already it* evidence, I will leave this point. To His Worship witness said : I madea mistake in saying that I camo back ia. November. It was a few days before the, Show. A day or two after that I saw my father sick — I can only safely say once. Its? wab at lunch time. I think there was onlymyeeli at home. He did not make any remark about the cause. He was verysick, This waa the only time I saw Lijqo. unwell abGut this period. Mr White asked for an adjournment ofi the case till Friday next, November 17tfo*. His Worship granted the application, aa^t the Court rose. The attendance of the public yestereLaj? was larger than on any former occasion, tshe* Court Aouse being crowded to excess from*. II o'clock to the time the Court rose. TU«» crowd was chiefly attracted to hoax Mra Newton's evidence, and your readers ox*, comparison will find that it waa of ihemogts importance. She replied to My White** questions in a very nervous way. She weptfc a little when the re examination took place* but she was quite collected in a f&vt; minutes, and gave Hall a moat pcornful look as she left the Court, but ho did not tab* the slightest notice o£ her. He takes a. deep interest in the case, and has frequent conversations with, oouaael during tho pro>. gvess of the caee,