EXHUMATION OF CAPTAIN CAIN'S BODY.

Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 35, 5 October 1886, Page 2

EXHUMATION OF CAPTAIN CAIN'S BODY.

From the Lyttelton Times and Press reports, the Post compiles tho following particulars : —On Professor Ogstone’* ar rival at Timaru on Monday, 27th Sept, from Dunedin, he was met at the railway station by Drs Mclntyre and Hogg, Mr White, the Crown Prosecutor, and Inspector Broharn. After a short consultation it was arranged that the ceremony should take place as soon as possible, and

instructions were at once given to the gravedigger to cotnnieur# clearing out the grave, which work was be>gun at 5 o’clock p.m., and not completed until 7 o’clock E.m. During this time it was raining eavily, and the grave was, in consc quence, partly filled with water. Shortly after 8 o’clock In*|iector Hroham, Detective Kirby, and constables arrived at the cemetery, and there was some little delay before the doctors and professor drove up. The sight at the grave was a ghastly one, and the night being a fearfully dark one, added fresh horror to the scene. The business of raising the coffin w-as comtnenced at a few minutes after U o'clock, and it took an hour of very hard work to complete the task, as, owing to the iron railings and stone round the grave, it was found impossible to mako the hole large enough to get the coffin out easily, and it took the undertaker and his five assistante, the gravedigger, and four of the police force an hour's hard work to get the coffin out of the grave and into the cart, which was in attendance during the time. There were gathered round the grave, watching the proceedings, Inspector Broham, Messrs White, Perry, Kinnetney, Drs Mclntyre, Hogg, Lovegrove, and Stewart, ana Professor Ogstone, and two repreeentativee of the prees. After the body was placed in the cart, and taken to the morgue attached to the hospital, a poet mortem was made by l*rofueeor Ogstone and Dr Hogg. Dr* Lovegrove, Mclntyre and Stewart (s ing also present. Th# Professor found the body very much decomposed, and took out portions of the brain, liver, kidney, rectum, and other parts of the intestines, leaving little bit bone and skin in th* coffin. These are to be conveyed to Dunedin for analysis bv Professors Ogstone and Black. I>r Meintyre lisd been asked to assist at the post mortem, but he declined. It took about half an hour. and the coffin and iu contents were then removed and relaid in the grave.