MINNIE DEAN.

Evening Star, Issue 9749, 4 July 1895, Page 2

MINNIE DEAN.

Following up our telegram of yesterday's date," stating that the authorities in Wellington had not > received' any communication in respeot to Mrs Dean, we to-day asked Mr Hanlon ho\v the matter stood* and that gentleman replied that thb application to. the Attorney-General was now* on its way to Wellington. The application is in this form:— i REGINA V. MINNIE DEAN. Application is hereby made for leave in writing to move the Court of Appeal of New Zealand for leave to appeal herein* on the ground that upon the trial of the prisoner Minnie Dean before.His Honor Mr Justice Williams for the murde'r of a 1 child tiaaWjDo.rQ.thy JSdlth Carter the' evidence hereinafter referred to was improperly admitted. /': At the trial the learned counsel for the Crown tendered evidence.to effect that the prisoner received into her possession another child named Eva Hdrnsby, and that that child was murdered, the object of the evidence being to show that the death of Dorothy Edith Carter was not accident*. l .. Learned counsel, with the same object, also tendered evidence in regard to the death of the child whose skeleton was found in the- garden at the prisoner's residence. : This cvidenoe was objected to by me, but His Honor overruled the objection and admitted it. • I then asked His Honor to reserve the question bnder section 412 (3) of the Criminal Code Act, 1893. This Hjs Honor refused to do, but took a hote of the objection, and this application is now made under section 413 (1) of the code. Dated at Duhedin this 3rd day of July, 1895. • Axf. O.Hanlon, •-. Counsel for the prisoner. To the Attorney-General of the Colony of New • Zealand.