THE HALL CASE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2570, 12 April 1887, Page 2

THE HALL CASE.

: Discussing the decißiou.of tEg-Cqurt of Appeal in the Hail-case, the Argus ' says; Whatever comesi fiTull Jjig: 'sentence" to serve, but ■iu this cojony the same ruling of the law went nearer . to,eeoure the total escape of tKe.faoto? ... ribuVmurderer,Burns! the : wayof, murdering his ma&sV had-ohe'plan, which was ehflplo'aijjj-• effectual) and to which. V'afjj)?res. . 1 From a strange laclrof when in a solitary place, he siradk liis B&ate ft craelung' blcw on ilia':: p|gj& i, ■ ftci'iu' behind, aiidtfefi hempi|l^|pf' ks.if from the murdered ■ dajed and describing a bres $ then eußpicion was murder was difficult, yet it J« ' ■ to the nature of things after another should be slain; ' ~ Bums should bo the last mai\ «efn '|i't^' the victim, that he should tell tpps ' ; ! false tale about each, that pud that he should ;/ • The cumulative evidence: tv'as:>wl^ : ;fe told against him, but the dumulatiyo : was shut out by law, and not until tiia '. sixth trial, when a resolute judge routed . himself to prevent a Mure'of justice, was there a conviction,"