THE POISONING CASE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4021, 26 January 1892, Page 3

THE POISONING CASE.

What aro too PohooDoinj??

[Fkom the Times.]

What the polico aro doing in the r poisoning case, wo do not know, and Wb do not want to know. All that we require to know is that tlioy are lit work upon it. In France they would hav« very soon ampin malennl to work with. Under the Fivnch system suspected persons are nrresitd and questioned closnly, and nt irrßguUr j! intervals, as to the dii-posil of j their time, and aliout their eon- „ duct generally. In Paris only the • other day a headless body was found in a celiac with nothing whatever by which to identify it. A man was arrested and questioned, simply because he rented a room in thusaiuc house, to which he sometimes brought a friend at night. There was , literally nothing more than that against him, but skilful questioning did the rest, until, finding himself in the toils, ho confessed to the murder t of his fellow workman who used to 6hare his lodgings occasionally, Under j the English system this mun whose confession was secured within 48 hours of the finding of havo esctped scot free. Of course wo are not taking it for granted that murder has been committed at I Pahiatun. Murder is simply one of the solutions to the arsenic puzzle, whilo accident, according to • the evidence, is not. Bat if (hero is any evidence of aecident or of practical joking, we should like to hear it, The jurymen, who crosssexarnined some of the witnesses at tho inquest, when they talked nonsense about " this great feast," and traversed what they appeared to f think the line of their evidence, these cross-examining jurymen ought to have some theory on the subject, It Pj would be as well for them to com- % municate with the detectives. How did the nrsonio get into that lamb? ti Thatis the question upon which every E honest man should lose no timo in tf throwing whatever light bo mny be in B possession of,