Murder bill
The Van Phillips’ drama series based on true cases of murder in New Zealand continues from the National radio programme tomorrow afternoon with the case of the “Winton Baby Farmer,” Minnie Dean. “The Flower Garden” is a dramatised account of the arrest and trial of Minnie Dean who made money by accepting the unwanted illegitimate children of well-to-do Southlanders and “dis-
posing” of them with no questions asked. The second play in this double bill reconstructs the .trial of Joseph Bums fhr the 1847 murder of Lieutenant Snow and his wife and daughter. His only motive seemed to be robbery ($24) but the case was complicated by the conflicting evidence of a woman who lived with Burns. This play is called “The Twelve-Pound Murder.”
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