ANOTHER “HALL" EPISODE.
/ The following is clipped fmm the Mount Ida Chrotide: —When Thomas Hall, the Timaru poisoner, was a y >un? man he lodged with a highly respectable family, with the daughter of which he trifled. She was found in a well dead, of coarse. Four or five years he had a partner named Tail, who, under the stress of financial troubles, was supp s?d to have wandered from his home in a deranged state of mind, tie was found dead near the beach, about three m lea south of Timsra. Some time before this there was a marred couple on hia father’s station. The hi-bind cma home one day and caught H ui and the wife under equivocal circumstances. The mao shot his wife cn the spot and is now serving a life sentence la Lyttelton gaol. When Hall arrived at that s rung “ old this unfortunate man was the fir.t to see him. “ Ha! you wretch,” he exclaimed ; “ you’ve come at last, have you ?"
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1405, 12 November 1886, Page 3
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167ANOTHER “HALL" EPISODE. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1405, 12 November 1886, Page 3
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