The Prisoner Hall

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 93, 12 February 1887, Page 3

The Prisoner Hall

. 'I Colonus" in the Auckland Herald says in the course of an article on Thomas Hall, now under sentence of de:tth fnf the murder of Captain Cam : •—." It is generally known now and it seems strange that the. knowledge of it before does not appear to have affected the social position of Hall — that he was already connected closely -with two violent deaths; and whether or not one of them was inflicted by his- own hand, they were both the direct result of his criminal conduct, the one was the case of a young girl in her teens,- .'who, although she owed heir ruin to him, was so infatuated that in spite of the warnings of her relations, she persisted in" meeting hini, and who after one such meeting waa found drowned in a tank, being supposed to have committed suicide

to hide from shame. . . . The second case was brought somewhat dramatically before public attention after his conviction for the attempted murder of his wife when, on his being taken to the, Lyttelton gaol, immediately on entering the yard, he was accosted by one of the convicts in these words,'* Ah, you scoundrel have you got 'here at last?' This man was doing a penalty of twenty years for the murder of his own wife, whom he had slain, flagrante delicto, for her criminality with Hall himself."