THE DEAN CASE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 7385, 7 June 1895, Page 2

THE DEAN CASE.

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Invehcaigill, Last night. At the Magisterial enquiry into the alleged murder of tho infant Dorothy Edith Carter by Minnie and Charles Dean, there was little evidence to-day. It came out that the infant was not the cbild of a married woman in Christohnroh, but of a young girl, and that Mrs Dean did not get any premium with tbe cbild. The £10 was to be paid on tho Ist June.

The girl Cameron who had been with Mrs Dean 14 years, and whose name had be6n used in correspondence regarding tho transfer of the infant, unhesitatingly identified the writing of th=i letters as Mrs Dean's, and was equally emphatic in asserting that the signature, M Gray, in the chemist's poison book was also her waiting. Witness was not about Loan's house at the time this correspondence was going on and knew nothing about it.

Esther Wallace, a girl of 15, who resided with the Deans, slid tho woman was kind to the children, that she took off her oloak and wrapped it round the infant Cartor while crossing the paddook to tho house on tho night she broaght it home from tho Bluff. She also said she hearl Dean aek his wife if tho lady who was to adopt Dorothy had any children of her own, this leading to show that Charles Dean was under the impression that the child was going to someone else when taken away from the Larches

Tho hoaring was adjourned