The Wain Case.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 114, 21 April 1883, Page 2

The Wain Case.

. Tby telegraph.) (united peess association".) Ddnedin, April 20. Iv the Wain case to-day, the Grown Prosecutor, Mr Hagjjiitj said the prosecution propose to prove by the testimony of witnesses a long course of cruel and inhuman treatment to this child, and then to show, by medical testimony, that the effect ot that treatment was likely to. cause tuberculosis m a chid not predisposed to that disease, or m a child disposed to tuberculosis to develope it much more readily than it otherwise would be developed, to cause | it to become dangerous when otherwise it might never become so, and generally to show by means of that medical evidence that the treatment "to which this child was exposed was such as either to occasion disease which would cause death m a child not predisposed to it, or if the child were predisposed to it to accelerate the death of the child. Of course, m either case the result w^uld be the same that the person guilty ot such treatment would be guilty of manslaughter, The evidence given by some witnesses to«day had reference to a period of two years ago,, when the boy, Henry Wain, had boen beaten, and looked, the witness said, like a poor, starred, ill-«used child. One of the principal witnesses was Martha McEacheson, wife of William McEacheson, of South Dunedin. She gave evidence as to seeing the deceased standing on the ledge of a window m his father's house. Ho was.trembling, and seemed to be raving to get out for a drink. He was without shoes or stockings . He had a cut ou his forehead, and a black n eye. She gave him some bread, whicl* he ate ravenously. The child looked cold, hungry, and frightened. Later. The hearing was continued to-day. Nothing fresh was elicited. The medical witnesses will be examined on Monday.