THE EXECUTION OF MRS DEAN
(BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
Invercargill, this day. Ik the execution of Mrs Dean the droP allowed was 7 feet 9 inches, and the scaffold used was one built for the execution of Captain Jarvey, of. Dunedin, who poisoned his wife about a quarter of a cen* tury ago. The only persons present, beside the gaol officer, were the sheriff, doctor, magistrate, and press reporters. The body has ' been claimed by her husband, and will be buried in Wlnton Cemetery. ' . ■" ■
It is understood Minnie Dean lefb.» written statement which will ba forwarded to the Government placing a different] aspect) On the . ease from that inferred from the trial.
During the execution a boy fell from tfa« roof of a building to the ground, a distance of fifty feet, fracturing hia skull.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 191, 13 August 1895, Page 5
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