THE BABY-FARMING CASE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 135, 7 June 1895, Page 3

THE BABY-FARMING CASE.

(BY TELEQBABH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION. )

' Inveecabgill, this day. At the magiaterial inquiry into the alleged murder of the Infaao Dorothy Edith1 Carter by Minnie and Charlea Dean it was stated thab bhe infanL wsb not the child of, a married woman in Christchurch, and that Mrs Dean did notvgeb any premium with the child. The sum of £10 was to be paid on the Ist of June. The girl Cameron, wh© had been with Mrs Dean fo.nr years, and whose name had b6on used in tho correspondence regarding t<he transfer of the infant, identified the writing of the, letters as Mrs Dean's, and asserted that the Bigna* ture "M. Gray " in the \ ohenaiat's poison book.wa3.alßo her writing. Witnesa was not aboub Dean's house ais the time this ■ correspondence wa» alleged to j)6 going on, and know nothing about it. ■ Bsbher Wallace, a gjrl of 15, who resided; with the Deans, eaid the woman was kind to the; children, and thab she took off her cloak and wrapped it round the infant: Carter while , crossing the paddocks to the bonse on the nlgho she broughb her from the BlnfF. She ' also said she heard Dean ask his wife if the lady who was to adopt Dorothy bad any children of her own.' The hearing was adjourned. ■■■ ■■ ,- ■:'; ■ ' V ~-.■'.:' •;'