MORE ABOUT THE EXHUMATION

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1364, 7 October 1886, Page 3

MORE ABOUT THE EXHUMATION

Now that so much has been officialiy permitted to transpire them seems no object to be gained in withholding from the public any particulars of the caso. We may, therefore, mention that it has reached ns that when the prisoner Hall Wis informed in gaol that tho Goven meet had author! ed the disinterment of iho late Captain Cain he was greatly agitated, so much so that medical advice bad to be rstcr-'ed to, and morphia was administered to steady his nerves. We draw io conclusion from the fact, if fact it be, as we believe it is, and the agi ation of tho prisoner may, of course, have b;en attributable to his being shocked at the idea of the exhumation, as much as at the suspicions which led to its being permitted, but th»t he was grea*ly agitated we are credibly assured- Ws also learn, with regird to the exhumation itself, that the bedy of the late Captain Cain proved to fc'e In wonderful preservation, the features perfect, thouah somewhat swi 1 en, and the internal organs almost as fresh-look-ing as if the burial had only taken place a few days prior to the ro-openir.g of the grave; ana as the properties of antimony are, we understand, preservative its presence in considerable quantity doubt less had something to do with tha arresting of the process cf natural decoy, (ffd. Gmtdian )