THE CAIN CASE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1419, 29 November 1886, Page 2

THE CAIN CASE.

Telegraphing on f-huunDy to the Lyttelton Times the Timvu corre->potident of that j 'tiros! a y-: —Tnoin as Hill arrived Here to-day by riia -orth express train, and the morb d on iosuy of the pnbl'o to see bi n drew a ;-nnravu‘> crowd to the aii- v a> tirion Wfi>n he got <>ut of th -csrra'o ho travelled in, »r>d alighted on the pi 1 1 form of th ' staton. 'he police kept tho o-owot bark, aud ho was at once pUoad in a vehicle su'd taken to the gaol. In reg rd to the charge of murder wh ch la to he preferred against him at the KesHent Magistrate's Onuit on M»>ndiy, some evidence was rcoidenatliy dtrooverod hy Mr William Ginn, a chemist residing in this own. ') h ) dtioovory was male In this w*y: A person went into his shop to boy some kind of poison, and Mr Gunn tobi him that he would rather no sell it; th’ra was -no 1 ! a bo her, selling poison, as there were certain forms t > be signed, a- d a respec ah‘e whites* hai ro he procured to show th ri all was correct He ala ■ > a'd 10 h a c istomer, “ L "otc her.-,” taki g up his sale of poisons book, “ Fee, this wt'l inform you of the necessary fo; rns to be go no hr inch if yon want to pa-chase poison ” Mr Gunn then opened theb>ok, and the fi-st thing h-> saw entered in it w.B t'-s sale of two dr-chins rf trrtar nnu 1 ic t 1 Thomas Hall, in the to iiith of May, 1885 Tlris dieCovery is most remarkab'e. as Mr Gunn searched the book over <nd oveBut the w y it escaped his notice was that the writ ntf la so vorr small eni indistinct, that unles* the entry is looked at in t' o cleaiest light, and with the closest EC'Utmy, it could not be seen. Mr Gunn at once communicated with the police in the mritor, THE MAGISTERIAL ENQUIRYTimaru November 29 Hall was brought up charged with the murder r f Captai i Grin to day Mr White prosecuted, and Mr Perry defended Mr W ite, having opened tho case shortly, called Arthur Stedram, who reputed the evidence given in tho previous ease as to the financial position if prisoner’s firm. Nothing new w;s o’icited from this witness. H. 8. Black, Manager of Ihe National Bank and G A. Wilson, clerk to Hall and Masson, gave format evidence. Both these witnesses and Stedman identified Hall’s handwriting in the poison book . The evidence of Davidson, Insurance Agent, and Knubley, Solicitor, was an exact repetition of what these witnesses said in ths Supreme C-'Uvt and brought tho case up to tho lunche m adjournment Mr Knubly continued his evidence but m thing new was elecited. FLe G:en repealed in i ffjot what he said at the inquest.