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Frederick Arthur Dean (34), butcher's assistant, of Catford, was committed for trial by the Greenwich magistrates on the--icnarge of having murdered his wife, Edith Alice Dean (86). Mr "Wallace (for the Public Prosecutor) stated that on January Ist Dean sent his son, aged 14, for some cigarettes. A little girl remained in the hou6e, and he would say that her father rained blows with a butcher's steel on her mother, and then fetched a tin from the scullery, and poured something, believed to be paraffin, on Mrs Dean, and set her clothes alight. When the boy returned with the cigarettes he saw prisoner putting paper on his wife, whose clothes were on fire. Mr Wallace read a statement alleged to have been made by prisoner, in which he said he and his wife were fairly happy until last year, when he became unemployed. He remembered sending the boy for cigarettes, and his wife Baid she would go into «mce and pushed past him. He said he dil not remember anything after that. Doris Dean (6), daughter of the prisoner, while being questioned, cnei bitterly, and prisoner rose to protost against the proceedings.