SECOND EDITION . THE WINTON BABY-FARM-ING CASES. MINNIE DEAN SENTENCED TO DEATH.
IST TIMCGBAPH. — PBISS ASSOCIATION.] iNVItt- AHGILL, THIS DAY The suggestion made to the jury b\ Mr. Hanlon, counsel for Minnie Dean, in regard to the death of the child Dorotby Carter, is that the death resnlted from the misadventure of prisoner having given the child an overdose of laudanum. There may, he urged, have been culpable negligenoe, amounting to manFlaoghter, bnt there was nothing to justify the graver finding of wilfnl murder. His Honour deferred bis snmming up from yesterday afternoon to this morning. His Honour summed up this morning, and after half an hour's deliberation the jury found the prisoner Gniity. When asked whether sho bad any reason to offer why sentence should not be passed upon her, Minnio D«an roße, and in a firm clear voice said, "No; I have only to thank Detective M'Grath for bia kindness to me." His Honour then assumed the black cap, and passed sentence of death, which the prisoner received with perfect composure. She stepped out of the dock apparently the least concerned woman in the crowded Conrt.
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Evening Post, Volume XLIX, Issue 145, 21 June 1895, Page 3
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187SECOND EDITION. THE WINTON BABY-FARMING CASES. MINNIE DEAN SENTENCED TO DEATH. Evening Post, Volume XLIX, Issue 145, 21 June 1895, Page 3
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