THE CAPTAIN CAIN CASE. NEW AND IMPORTANT EVIDENCE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXIX, Issue 11413, 1 December 1886, Page 2

THE CAPTAIN CAIN CASE. NEW AND IMPORTANT EVIDENCE.

(per tjnited press association.) Timaru, November 30. The murder case was resumed today. The evidence was mostly a repitition of that adduced at the inquest, Matton Bedfield Cameron proved .tf.N. forgeries. The evidence of the domestics was taken. Bridget Wren and Dennis Wreu's examination was chiefly the same as at the inquest. Bridget Wren, examined by Mr Perry, said that duiing the course of his first illness he vomited one day. He was only in bed a few days during that illness ; he was a good while in bed with his foot. The liquor was kept in a liquor stand, with three bottles, in the siok room, and I do not remember the stand being taken oat of that room, but if anybody cune to the houas and wanted whiskey, they obtained it from the stand iv the sick room. During 'Jap tain Gain's illness I noticed hia hands were very inuoh swollen ; cannot say if Hall saw Captain Cain every time he called ; ho could have seen him unknown to me ; there was champagne in the room, and was drawn by means of a champagne top, which was bored through the cork. Wren's cross-examina-tion wa3 unimportant. After Miss •Houston had repeateJ the evidence given afc the inquest, Mrs Ostler was examined. Her evidence was most imporant, and was as follows : -Remember dining at Woodlands before Christmas . Mrs Newton, Captain Caia, Hall, and myself were present at dinner. Hall was going to help Captain Cain to some iquor from the spirit stand on the table, when he said it nude him siok. Hall then went to the cupboard and poured out something into a glass, which he took from the tabl..». flail stooped down to the cupboard ; I did not see what he poured the liquor from, as the door of the cupbof,»-d hid his bands ; I could see his borl • ; Hall then put the tumbler by the t>uij of Captain Cain; some water was poured, in from a green jug on the table ; I did not take notioe whether Captain Cain drank from the glass or not; soon after the oaptain became very Siok, and vonaited in the room, and left the table ; this was before the dinner was over, and Mxs Newton and I helped him from the room ; I did not h9ar him complain, but he was too ill to say anything at the time the doctor was sent for. Shortly before Captain Cain's death, I heard Hall asking Mrs Newton whether it would not be right of the doctor to give him something to make him easier ; two or three times I heard Hall say that the captajn oould not recover ; on one occasion Hall Raid that Captain Cain should have something to make him die easier; he said he could not recover. Cross-examined by Mr Perry i Hall sent me a letter on June 30th, asking me not to go again to see Mrs Hall ; I was not annoyed,*s I knew why it had been sent, lie-examined by Mr Whyte: The letter produoed is the one sent to' me ; the unpleasant thing mentioned in the letter referred to my having told s^rne ladi.es that I thought Hall was poisoning hits wiie. I told Mrs jN'ewtoa my suspicions that Mrs Hal} W as being prisoned. 1 thought at the time 1 received the latter that Hall had left off poisoning his wife, and was as frightened as I was. The examination was interrupted by the adjournment of the court till to"--morrow at 11 o'clock.