THE MURDER OF CAPTAIN CAIN.

Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 51, 3 December 1886, Page 3

THE MURDER OF CAPTAIN CAIN.

TRIAL OF HALL. Thr tri -1 nf Thicna* Hall for the murder cl ( iiptii.n Cain is still proci-cding at Tim in, but most ol tlie evidence in u ti |‘i '.item nf that already given. The . ni iiii’aifianl tacts were elicited on dr 1 ■ r <lr; a-cl:—I remeiuber dill- ■ C II i'VtAii, Captain ('.tin, Hnll and myself w» j it. \t dinner Hall was going to a. :p Captain C in t<» son if liquor from L •' |'i»i 'tin ion tin* t %••!•* when Captain 1 i ik that it made lam sit- k. Hall l * w» i to the cii| board, and poured : ni a which he t*n>k t-“ table. I fill stooped down to l»t enp %nrd. I did not see what he y * tb liquor from, at» the door of the cu; iai i hid ins hands. I could see his H ui men put the tumbler by the . > ! ( a,l'.iui C un, etui some water L • fr *m a k'rtfu jug oil the table. * d • not • whether Captain Soon «*er the captain becam# very sick, •’d ' t* i : i ti:.. »,i end left the t • -h'. 1 u i in*fore the (iinti'T wan w..., arvl \ln» Newton and l helped N** 1 hum ti. r su. 1 did not hoar him i •»»*»• b it In- wa • too ill to say any* * ' th'* • d the doctor was [ < nt for. M rt l; i••• ? >rr Captain Cain’s ' # *4#**t“r to :i\e In n someth: -t*' to make : hint's 1 { tf d H.ul ..I that the Captain could not ro \. r. On one . ,*<*ajiion nhen Hall ■ to make hrm ftte the more • O - • . xtniin. .by Mr Firry. Hull sent nf,- a Inti nn J mi king me nut to g» aga.it to si. '.fr- Halt, but !i» never ij ltlfli ! : : it-. lit*' letter told itx* f ;V * aA -** 1 nui

annoyed, »t« T knew the *rt why the letter had Iwen wnt. He t xainilietl hv Mr White : The letter prodift fd istheo.ir sent ti» me. The unyh.istint mentioned in the lett«r ieferre«l to mv told Minn- Indies that 1 thought Hall was |Miim»nintf his wife. I told Mrs Ni-wton my snspirinns thf Mrs Hall was heini' poisoned. I th«»e**ht ;*t th<* time 1 received the h’tter that Hall had l *ft off poisoning his wife, and was as frightened as I was.