A NEW VIEW OF THE CAIN CASE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1476, 7 February 1887, Page 3

A NEW VIEW OF THE CAIN CASE.

The Wetlint it° n P° 8 * sugstats that the murder of Oi.pi s » ln Cain ma y Dave been only keldental t <» tne intended mnrder of Mr* H»ll, putting iorw Md fch ' *>yP°t n e»" ; that Hall tried hia prentice hand on the j old man with a vie . * to know exactly how j to regulate the dob w of poison In Mrs Hall's case. It says : -"P «■ bly before, but certainly very soon »f tor tuw marriage be formed the design itf getting rid of Mrs Hall by poison. Jt will ba remembered that In the formOr trial Jt w*b established that Mrs Ball, montVs before Oatain Gain's sickness, *ras taken seriously ill and exhibited eyroptoniß j aimilar to those afterwards *&own by Captain Cain, and which eubsequently reappeared m fche illness which no nearly terminated m her death from the effoctg of the antimony administered by her bos' band. A nurs>% wko declared that her mistre s was b«iog poiioned. was dismissed, and Hall tried to get he clocked op as a lunatlo, ultimately, Indeed, honndIng her ont of htV reaaon. This statement of the no raw's seema. however, to have frightened HhII into temporary desistanoe. He was afraid nf discovery jf he then persisted, so he resumed his theorotlcal studies m toxicology, intending no doubt to be more cautious m j if uture.' Then Capt&in Cain w»a seiz d ! vith what wan evidently an illness o- p-ain to end fatally. This afforded Hal' an o "Vportnnity for, as ho thought, exp<yimt y oti»g eafely ab to tha practical effeo ** "^ P 0 "" nine antimony The iymi a v oms wouldjbe at'ii utd to the natural ' 'disesaes from which Caii» was evident^ T Buffrr'nt?. Hi death v»ou'd occasion, TOSU*pioi nor enqutrj. WatchIng the eft Tftot °* fc^ e P°' Bon on Cain, Hi 11 would aoqu < * xc practical experience m ite we so as to '6 n »We him to arlm'ninter i' with greater dffe^ t° d 'b wife afterwards Then Cain's &***** fc^ n 8 atMbut-d to natural cauaei \ * nl v ™ [i^ "n* surprise or susp nif J>ubHpqn«otly Mrs Hall exhibited •1«nllat ■ymptoms. It probably was not «> roooh , ft desire to hasten Cain's deaH '* h 7 a.fe.wd«ya, or ev«n weeks, as the deal. W -to stud, pr»cticaiiy the effects of the p *>»>n he wa B »« "g, which led Hall to g We the antimony t.i his J.ther-ln-law. B T -alI m»y !» ls " h ??* derived a oortala a. wont^ /> r . nndi.b pleasure In witnewlDg t!-e 8 , A ffj^ngn of a haman being, as he did from ,™eing ca(a, dogs and other animals tonY m 'he wrae way, and he probably a ta< ohook. led P 7 Br the way he was sncceßef'nlly hnxa\> a i'K lv « the faonlty. How ft>».rplefely he «" c ' oeeded m this the first iaptanoe, and . hosf nearly he succeeded In the second >YeV c Is known. If Dr M'lntyre's «nspioi n, ' bad n^t been aroused an the U»t m m»»nt, this modern Borgia wonld no doubt have pursued his career «of crime tinde^eotcd, and probably have- esoaped punishment." Oar oontemporary •oonalnden witi the following ■tgnifieant remark — m whfot;, pet hape, there, ia mote fcli«-o me t the •y**—*' WhethVr th» fuJ raaeuT- of b\i mmn ti yet kuo^e. pay b« doubted, " j