WAS CAPTAIN CAIN MURDERED?
The Charges of Forgery. WEtLiNGTON, thiB day. No further information has been received rejecting the analysis of the remains of tha late Capt. Cain, but if there is evidence to implicate Hall or anyone else in the murder of Capt. Cain, proceediogs will be taken. It is understood that the Crown intends to proceed with the charge? of forgery against Thomas EJall, as it ia necessary that the guilt of the priaoner thould be established betore the persons whose names -are fcged become released from their, liability under the bills.
Dunedix, this day. I learn that some misconception has arisen with regard to an alleged want of sufficiency of the language of the indictment against the prisoner Thomas Hall. It appears that the indictment was approved ot by the Attorney-General, and that the precise terms were fixed on after consideration of other cognate cases. Besides the oxide of tartar emetic, there were three other charges of antimony, and it would have been simply impossible for the expert testimony to have decided by analysis of the vomit and urine what particular oxide or kind of salts of antimony had been administered into the stomach, • In Palmer's case, the indictment wad simply in the ordinary form of murder—vjz., that prisoner did kill and murder; and in the Pritchard case, cited by Mr Joynt, three kinds of poisoning were set oat^-tartarieed antimony, aconite, and opium, or by one or other of them. The Attorney-General informs me that he has not decided whether*the Crown will proceed with the forgery cases on Tuesday next, and, that the matter of the alleged poisoning of Captain' Cain ia now under consideration. ,' ; * „;
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Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 176, 30 October 1886, Page 6 (Supplement)
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313WAS CAPTAIN CAIN MURDERED? Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 176, 30 October 1886, Page 6 (Supplement)
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