THE WINTON BABY FARMING CASES.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 9124, 7 June 1895, Page 5

THE WINTON BABY FARMING CASES.

(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) INVERCARGILL, June 6. At the Magisterial inquiry into the alleged murder of tho infant Dorothy Edith Carter by Minnie aud Charles Dean, there was littie new evidence to-day Ib came oub that the infant was not the child of a married woman in Christchurch, bub of a young girl, and that Mrs Dean did nob geb any premium with the child, bub £10 was to be paid on the Ist of June. Che girl Cameron, who had been with Mra Dean for fourteen years, and whose name had been used in the correspondence regarding the transfer of the infant, unhesitatingly identified th« writing of the letters as Mrs Dean's, and was equally emphatic in asserting thab the signature " M. Gray " in the chemist's poison book was also her writing. The witness was not about Dean's house at the time this correspondence was gcing on, and knew nothing about it. Esther Mallace, a girl of fifteen, who resided with the Deans, eaid the woman was kind to the children, that she took off h.r cloak aud Avrapped it round the infanb Carter Avhile crossing the paddock to the house on the night she brought her from tho Bluff. She also said she heard DeaD ask his Avife if the lady who was to adopt Dorothy had any children of her own, this leading to show thab Charles Dean was under the impression thab the child was going to someone else when token aAvay from the Larches. The hearing is adjourned.