NAPIER.
Last night. Tlio XT&pier Murder Case. The charge of wife murder against McLennan was commenced to-day. The Grown Prosecutor with Mr Cornford for the proscutiou, and Messrs Lascelles and Carlile appeared for the defence. The case is likely to last a week. To-day was occupied in taking the evidence of Mr Clement Tancred, Sichard Lee, Milner, and William Lait, from South Canterbury, nnd Mrs Sinclair, of Mornington, Dunedin. Their eridence was of an indirect nature, and chiefly referred to the relations of prisoner towardi his wife before they came to Napier. This testimony was generally. of a favorable character, though Mrs Sinclair declared that when Mr McLennan was staying at her house, she was in rery good health except once after McLennan had Tieited her. She also went away
with her husband and returned in ill health. At that lime as when in Napier Mrs McLennan believed herself to be pregnant, mid prepared baby clothes. Mr Tancred's evidence showed that "the prisoner could have obtained arsenic on the station. This it will be remembered was the poison found in her stomach. Dr Caro deposed to treating her for pregnancy.
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3427, 16 December 1879, Page 2
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190NAPIER. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3427, 16 December 1879, Page 2
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