THE TIMARU POISONING CASE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2413, 30 September 1886, Page 2

THE TIMARU POISONING CASE.

•i.. ■ » ,•■ EXHUMATION OF CAPTAIN GAIN'S BODY. .'. Tho Canterbury papora give the following pivticvilava :-On professor Ozone's arrival hiTimaruon Monday din he was met at the railway Btation Ey Drs Milcinlyre and Hogg, Mr White; t'C3>J Crown Proseeutsr, and Inspector Broham. •' Aftor a short consultation it was arranged that the ceremony should take -place at icon as possible, and instructions wero at once given to the grave-digger to commoncu cleaning out the grave, : which work was begun at 5 o'clock was not completed until 7 o'clocltHpuring this time it was wining heavil^raiidthe grave was, in consequence,, partly i filled with water.. Shortly after.B o'clock Inspector Broham, Detective Kirby," and constables arrived at the cemetery, and there was some little delay before ,th¥ doctors and professor drovo up. -The sight at the grave was a ghastly one. and the niyht being a fearfully dark one,. added'fresh horror to tho Bccne. .The business of raising the coffin 'was commenced at a fnw minutes after 9 o'clock, and it took an hour of very hard work, to _._. i completo the task, as, owing to the iron railings and stone round the grave, it waß 1 found impossible to make the hole large ouough to get the coffin out easily; aud'it took the undertaker and his fivo assistants i the yrave digger, and four of the police force an hour's bard work to get the coffin .. ' out of the grave and into the cart, which j< waßin attendance at the time. There- JL ; were gathered round the grave, watclumr. W . the proceedings, Inspector Broham, i Mossrs White, Perry, Kinnerney, Drs Macintyre.HogK, Lovegrove.and Stewart, i and Professor Ogetone, and two ropi<S|tatives of the press. After the bodywas in the cart, and taken to the morgue at : tacliod to tho Hospital, a.postmortem was made by Professor Ogstone and Dr Hogg > 1 Drs Lovegrove, Macintrye, and Stowarti . being also present. The Professor found i tho nody very much decomposed, and took out portions of the brain, liver, kidney, rectum, and othor parts of thointeii tinos. leaving really little but bone and skin in the coffin. Those are to be conveyed to Dunedin for analysis bv Profedi sor Ogatono and Black. Dr Macintyre i hadboonasked to assist at the pitnorkm, i but he declined. It took about half an i hour, and the coffin and its contents wero. then removed and rolaid in the urave.