THE TIMARU POISONING CASE

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2222, 5 October 1886, Page 2

THE TIMARU POISONING CASE

(BY TKLEGKAI'H — PRKSS ASSOCIATION.) Wellington, Monday. Sir R. Srour will bo the leading counsel for the Crown in the Hall cast*, which commences in tho Supreme Court, Christchurch, this day week. The other counsel with the Attorney-General will be Messrs NVhyte and Martin, Crown Solicitors at | Titnaru and Christchurch respectively. It is stated that besides Joynt a strong bar is retained for the defence. This will be one of the most impoitant criminal cases ever tried in an Encrlish country. Chbistchukch, Monday. On an application of the Crown prosecutor, Justice Johnson, on Saturday morning granted a special jury m the Tiuiaru poisoning case. Timaru, Monday. It is not known whether the analysts have concluded their labour of examining the stomach and intestines of the late C.ipt. Cain for traces of antimony, and if they have the rebult ia being kept private. Gre.it secrecy has been observed m the matter of the exhumation proceedings, and the cemetery was under guard for weeks before the body was disinterred. Various rumours .ire afloat as to sensational testimony bei'ig forthcoming, but nothing authentic will be known until disclo.->ed at th 1 ) trial. The prisoners, H.vll and Houston, were removed by tram to Christchurch on Saturday, but the intention of tho authorities not being known, there was but a small turn out of the public. Both prisoners wi>ro looking very ill and wr -tchod, but the officials showed them every consideration in theii power. Dunkdin, Monday. It is an open secret that the analysis of the remains of Capt. Cam has disclosed what is coniid^red \ery damaging evidence.