THE WINTON BABY-FARM-ING CASES.
MINNIE DEAN COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. |BT TBLtGRAPH. — PBIBS ASSOCIATION. I Intihcap.oill, Taia Dat. When the hearing of the charge apaintt the Deans of the murder of "Dorothy Edith Carter was resumed yesterday, the Crown Prosecutor stated that he proposed entering on a new line of evidence, with the object of showing that on the 3rd May Mrs. Dean had another infant entrusted to her which she was also alleged to have murdered. In tendering the evidence he relied on the judgment of the Privy Counoil in the Makin infanticide case, when it was held that at the hearing of the indiotment for murder of one infant evidence conld be adduced of the finding of other bodies in the accused's garden. His object was to show that the death of Dorothy Carter was not the result of accident, but of design. Mr. Hanlon, for the accused, objeoted, intimating that he would carry his objection to the Supreme Court, but the Magistrate (Mr. Poynton) admitted the evidence. This morning Mr. Poynton committed Minnie Dean for trial for the murder of Dorothy l<dith Carter, and discharged Charles Jean. The Supreme Court session* open on Tuesday.
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Evening Post, Volume XLIX, Issue 134, 8 June 1895, Page 2
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196THE WINTON BABY-FARMING CASES. Evening Post, Volume XLIX, Issue 134, 8 June 1895, Page 2
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