Case Adjourned for a Week. September 4;

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 169, 11 September 1886, Page 2

Cas e Adjourned for a Week. September 4;

Thk inquiry -into the charges in the Hall caeeVas continued.' ' •'.->-, '" June I?urp bull, ' formerly ' '^domestic ' in 'the'&alb priedner'a empl O yV^Dde'r !i crqesexai7iination,'^ltogother failed' to' show any act' of 'criminality 7 betSvee'n^MiSs "Houston arid Hall. , 'Slie *>aid tha£ fcfi l o l 4 i m^ rio're^on to believe fbiftt-'Ball vrentihblitU^ Htiusfeh'? rbom'fpr&uty 'other" i'eaao'n thaa^'to WaKe her ''tip. 1 ' ' lii '" '"< '- r ' '"' t '■ > l '"I -Vvj Wj4->, V^f ' Mf^Wilii^tn^aVidgbn^ lo'^l *Au r stt<i]xan' Frovid^tr Association; ,gave forrawl e'vjclerice'a3"to^h v d,Tbr6iiyf ! iir i for Hfe insufWtfd^ toad4'by :Hair for hir^ife ' fN 'Mary]HS&fa%WaB next'.'calleaf^SHedel' ' ppled ' thmmjliii" whs la ? 'geiiei?al "«6^a < bV ! ilAii lOthQr, ,p\irBe - theTe, J .;> After' tlii^t ' ,£■ nurao pamod Mr^E|UiBpn^cftins f V -Witnef^ hM :&> l ]}&ht :^b^ „ Qrb, , in *.fth«fr mbrnin^. ,'^ ,: Miss' , topk;)Mra^Hall'M;f breakfaet 1 iiitci, r^bedroom f'Mn^th^ morning^,*:' fal»a;

she trie generally able to come out for lunch. After Mrs Ellison came she attended to Mrs HitU for the first fortnight, and after, that Mr Hall generaly took in her breakfast frotn/the dining-roonv where witness took* irof from the kitchen, 'Used to can^Miß^>H6uBton>«* 4^le^rime.?' fWhen witnfss firs? wej£t ttflre^al'i {and His, wife occupied . t ,th©^ same** bedroom", and< afterwards ;<hef ocoupied a, room on the -verandah.' I Had ieen7'MiBB Jriouston take in 'tea in that Voom in the mornings. Site had a dressing gown on. She remained there about 20 minutes. Could not say if Hall was up then. This was between 8.- and,. -9 o'olook^ on -Sunday "mornings Hall subsequently occupied a different bedroom/ tip-stairs. Had Been Miss Houston go to that room between 7 and'- 8- o'clock- in*"the <*--* morning: " "She had a dressing gown on. , ,Could not' cay if Haft was up/ Saw her coming down-! stairs from Hall's room one morning ; this! was a little after 8 o'clock, but could say exactly. Miss Houston was, wearing a ! dressing- gown on 'that occasion.' This wit- . i ness, also gave evidence that she,saw Hail ,' ' pulling, » Miss Houston, about in the dairy, with his'arm round her neck, while she was laughing; «< iOn cr6ss-examiaatios; in 1 answer i to Mr Joynt,,Bbe .said MiesMHquston, W generally up at 8 p'olock.. Her duties were 1 to du4t the dining-'rooti, and then skitn the; milk for breakfast;^-/ :She^ trimmed thei lamps after v , s breakfast, but. phe r did not; do anything else before .breakfast. ,She 'sometime* 'dusted the dining-room^ with' herdressing gown on during the winter, n?onths. ' Witness never saw what she had on under; the dressing gown. °She' only 'once took Mrs Hall tea while she wa«* in bed, that she remembered; She thought Hall's bedroom' at. Woodlands was about over Mrs Hall's bedroom^'" Was in 1 the kitchen 1 when ehe saw Mies Houston go into Hall's room on the verandah on Sunday. She knew she was going to "take in the tea. Did not see her' actually go into' the bedroom, * but saw hen go an »4>h4fc- A direction. -,; When , she came out , witness met her, ; .coming; through, the , kitchen \'; door. .Did i, not, actually f see her either., go in i or come! out of: tHe.room. She had been engaged, in the meantime getting .the table ready for! ,breakfast ( ,in tijie dining-room,' and nothing, ej?e. It ( t,ook, witness^halt-an-hour ,to get' the tab le laid v! T^Le," dairy is a, little room away .from ,the hpuse^ .opposite jthe^kitchen 1 window.,,, She, thought, there was a ,windqw at the^back, bur, /was not s,u.re, was then in the ,kUche,n, looking bujfc ot'^the, window,, when the prjs,phers~ went into the dairy. This was between 8 and 9 o'clock in the morning. , She saw what took place perfectly r 'we\l, as the door 'of' the" dairyt was open, "llall had his arms around IVliss 'Houston and 'pulling her| but ehe could not; cay'tVat \\i& arms we're Vdundner neck. Stio was laughiKg'.' as witness could see by the expression 'of her 'face. Witness was, not'lau'gh.ing hareelf. "Could iipt cay howlong it lasted. ' Is 'was 4 after lunch 'that s'io saw Hall writing a' letter when' Misa'Hous-i ton was with him, about 2 o'clock. [ ' Tue i cro."B-examiudtibn of this witness lasted. till the luncheon adjournment in the aftornoon. ' The * nurpe^ Ivlre JEllieon, was examined. The main points of her evidence' are as follows :—: — ! _ < ' . > Hannah 'Ellison deposed : I am, a nur?e, and I know Mrs Hall and s the two prisoners. It was eleven weeks yesterday since I went to nurse Mra Hall." ! I went'there^on Thursday before she was' confined on' the following Saturday.' I' occupied the game" room 1 with' Mrs Hall from' the lime I went, till now. There was nothing unusual about her 'confinement, although she had had' a rather bad time. Until about? thVthird or, fourth day.ehfe showed no unueual &ymp- ! toms. I never before attended anybody ' 'who was sick "after confinement. 'I have been a nuwe 10 year 4 in' Timaru." Mary Hatsen* uie'd ( to bring sthe 5 the ,fir§'t cup 'of tea in the 'moaning. ' "She brought' it into the room together with' a cup of tea for myself ' Sometimes Hall brought in the 'breakfast, 'sometimes Miss Houston, and eomeume^ I did. When 'l was engaged with the, baby' Miss Houston u^ed'to bring it in for tho firnt few days. . I generally brought in tho meal?, and' after that she used to get her m'ealß from the dining room, and they wore brought in sometimes by the girl, sometime '- by Mihs Houston, and .sometimea by Hall.' -I'broiight them sometimes myself. Mrs Hallgounto the smokingroom on the 11th day 'atter'her confinement. She wtinb into thedinihg-room on the' Sun' day following. A fdrthi^rhtufter hei conrinemenfc the ■ sickness 'wo'iild Ct;a*e for a little while, and ie would come on again ;5; 5 it ceased sometimes for a day or two. On tbe Suoday morning she went into the diningroom she wae pretty well. Old Mr and Mrs Hall dined with hor on tha f . dny, and Miss T-Touaton was preterit, and tho pri-onerHtill al«o. As nearly as I could say it was' about 3 o'clock 1 when she i eturnod to her bedroom. She wag very sick that 'evening Thef'same 1 rule asrecards bringing in the breakfast was carried out nil through, and' Hall mostly brought thp, bre ikfaet in. He asked to.be allowed to 'fetch it, as he vi-ihtd to see his wife before leaving. I generally left tho room when Hall ciind in, but sometime* remained. Tlie ric^aep'e returned, and Mrs Hall ; sometiraes got, better nnd then worse. Som'etimee sho would' be better for a day, and sometimes two, a'fid "never to be depended lipon.' 'Tho"sicknb°s would come eomotime'B af tbr meals, and sometimes when Fhe had not taken anything, until 'the etomnch got r relieved of its contdhts, and vonditlop CBasts'd. She th'rew',u'p,a green fluid, and sometimes ayellowisn fluid, M-ith troth bri it. Immediately ', before,,'tho sickness came on, her face looked yellow; 'with a bluieh ting© round her lips and under her e>e£. La£or on ' the 'got better, and wae able 'to 'go out for a (Ir.ive. Old Mr ■ fiall and Miss tloustoa Went witn her on this occasion. ' Mies Houston took al'littlea 1 ' little drinlKwith her. in case Mrs irlall thould feel faint.' Mifes Houston herself told me this. ' Mrs ' Hall, bri returning from 'the drive, seemed pretty xvell, although rather tired. She bi'clt I'thkt evening arid thronghout'tho night. I I .think between 1 nnd 3,' wli»n she returned from "the drive, there \va» a great deal of retchingj and at ■ euch times the prisoner HalPalwayß ga ; d he tfasfMU'ry to pee his wife retching, and vt htn he heard it he came into f th^ room, and generally gave her her meal? in the latter 'p'arfc of* the day. I did not prepare' tbe" meals myself. - Sometimes th'is'wae done''b^ ; 'Mary .Hapsen, and sometimes by Mitß Houston. ' After speaking of theiconnultatinn/hela^ the -witness went on to gay: On the Saturday before Hall was 'arrested I \vefit' to ,' the ba*h- room t in' the ! afternoon for edrh'e ice. Hall came in while "I Ws getting tKe ice.' HdJ aeeieted me in 'cutting a'psjft'of'a'Jiew bar that had come j in] thati'aCternobrif -The, piee'6 broken off the "now 5 bar. I put in km'e clean flannel in 1 a cullender, and the 1 other J ice put'*in s a| jn'fe* 41 l. i 'todk w into' the' 1 bedro6mi The jUg was ur washed'out clean" previously. t6 5 s^ain"the tea in tKe: ju'^'il^'ok: the'n'ttndke'rchief' frdm "Mifs' HaWtiKawer? l -Tpi3tthe- jfig^du aclilair a'cu'pln'therodkn I withXdme muiilin' dn, ir with !l some' irJe'in" it* { MfcWdu\3foH ( pWt the'mui-lih' a'ttd'trie ic'e v 6ri • iitfc b\(p '^r^H^l^Be^^&^'oiH^e m aatihowaß very 1 dry 'thatsVnight/: Slie very bad, afcni^Ht\ but she' was a liitle, better in; the mvrningl, sick : , seveml Jfcinig«(>in : the;^nigbt. 'i *", t fwas^in the \rbom) [dunrigrthe.iMhole-iiight; aud'gbt ' uoL'to. her

every time she wm rf c k, as ehe felt thesickness coming on and woke. Mrs Hall was » little brighter the first thing in th» fSISi 1 !!!*' Tb f cup ws £ /"s>/* during the nignt to contain ica-water, whiohflKiioured into Jk wine-slat* to wst hlMwvS. ing. /On that nforfeing H^ll ?& c into the room, .andffr -went out^ fehile he was there nobody *jfelse was ( *#th6 ropm^when I >ent- ou6,' - WhjmAamo back Hall had gone out, and Mrs Hall made a complaint to me immediately after I returned. Owing to what ehe told me, I tasted Some of the we-water out of the cud and'it tasted 'bitted' I did^dt*ltfdK- H tßieio if there was the same amount of water in the cup as when I went out. flail came into the room afterwards. Mrs Hall asked prisoner to "taetirthe iee-Wfcte'rfifc wds"sa nasty and he did bo. She then told him she did not know what wasiin it to make it taste bo nasty. He said that some mißtake must have been made in putting the water out of the jugs. •' Miss Houston came into the room while the conversation was co- ™ S °™ Mi^HouetbneaidthatffitwasnastF Mrs Hall should not driok it, and ehe took the cup out ©f , the , room The female prisoner brought it back with a clean piece of muslin and some more ico? Before J&isa Houston took away the cup, I took it from the dressing-table as far as 'the r wash-stand and poured part of the contents of it ' into 6, clean cup I meant to take'jhe whole lofe *" „?( , °H a ? ,C, C , UPU P witl » the ice iwater it it into the* kitchen and""put' f the iw aotf tents Into a t clean bottle.* 1 , put' aTcork into the bottle and put it into my pocket and afterwards ' gave it" to Dr Me* Intyre. Nothing had, previously 'been in the cup or the small bottle .except the ice-water, which had been'' in the room, all ml?m l? *" iJP^Ir HouBton was' not.in the room when Mrs Hall called me back Ifrom'the washstaud. The icewater- which I.tasted was bitter, and made me sick. l 'Mrs ' Hall was very -ill on the Sunday after ehe took tha xce-water, which^ehe complained of an bitter, bhe waa sick very soon after 1 came back into the room." I • should say about 10 minutes. This Sunday waa SJS °" which P»aoners were arrested, irom the.day on winch they left for a drive until the Sunday of the arrest Mrs Hall never made' 'any -Dermaneta't 1 improvement ja her health. . She -was very, weak on the latcer day.', It waa about 10 minutes after I returned to, the room, ■ when Hall had left that Mrs £all was eicK. I gave Ur. Mclnt>ra the ice-water on the fame Sunday morning. I g ave Dr. MeInfcyre, other thin^: at ; different ' times. Ihey contained vomit ,» D 'd , ,urine I identify • the bottles . as having come from the bedi-oom. The 1 .vomit and 1 urine naa been passed on the Friday night I gave the jug that had contained the 'icewater tolnspeetor Brohamon Sunday night I here was f-ome water in the'iug which had been .drainod from the ice w.hen I gave it to Inspector. Broham. This water was in the jag on the morning on thedqy of Hall's arrest. There wa 3 ice put in,fa fthe handkerenrof on Saturday ni^ht and Sunday morning, a:id i through the May. I gave Constable, Ejian a • bottle on Sunday contaitnmj brandy to be used for infection, which was given td me ■ by Hall on Stindsy evening between Fix.andßevea 0 clock, I gave Dr. Mctntyre two bottle* on the baturday before the arrest. That is t hoy wore cent to him. I gave him soma bofcUes on tl c Monday rooming They contained vomit and- urine, passed on the bunday night when the arreet was made. 1 identify the cullender. I used the cut. lewder and one of the pieces of flannel on tno Saturday for the new, bar of ice which Mr Hall and I broke. . On that evening the ice wa«?,in the flannel, and placed m ,the cullender. Mrs Hall has not neen sick since the night of the arrest. She retched on that, night, but was not sick. Since then there has been no more retching. I remember being with ' Mrs Hammersley in Ball's. house since the arrest. Upstairs there were only two rooms and a garret. Went to look for a brandy flask, in Hall's bedroom, but did not smell anything. I looked into the garrefc after Mrs Hammersloy had done, and I saw a kerosene tin. there. I did not touch it. I never put anything into the garrat;, and did not knowpreviously that it w&d there. I afterwards izuve the tin to Inspector Brohain The two prisoners appeared to bo on good terms with, each other so far as 1 saw. He called her " Megrims " and she called him '•' Mr ffall, * but I haari her once call him '' Tom," The pf-rvants used to i>o to bed at 10. •So far as Iknow. I used tocro to bed at 11, and sometimes bpfore* Sometimes Miss Houston went to bed before us (that ; ie, Mrs HalJ and me), and sometimes not. i On the nights when we went to bed before the prieoners I left them in the dining-room. The bedrnora utensils were always kept clean. . All the j bottles I gave Dr. Mclnytyre were .clean j when I put the stuff into them., Never (ravo J>r. Mclntyre any vomit or uiine passer? by any person. The Court, then adjourned, and the examination of the nuree will take .place to^. day.