THE WINTON MURDER.
Mrs dean to be executed;
WELLINtjTON, August 3. Jhe Executive have, decided thai the law must take iW course in respect to the convict Minnie Dean. >■ R. J. Sbddon.
[From Our Parliamentary BEeosTM.) ;, August 3. Mrs Dean will be executed at Invercargill, aud the Sheriff is to fix the date.
The miserable woman whose punishment is now finally decreed seems to have been possessed for some time before she fell into the hands of the police of gloomy fore' bodings in regard to the end of her career. The; following lines, apparently original, ardin her own handwriting, the effort presumably of an idle hour when no danger was in sight s—kittlejijiid.niy mother, think, fkat iky she cradled nic, i What land f was to. travel in, Or what death I should die. Oh that my father had ne'er on me smiled 1 Oh that'my mother had ne'er to me sung; Oh that my cradle had never hcen rucked, . Mat that 1 had died when I was-young. Oh that the tfravc it were my bed, My blankets were my winding-sHcet | Tile clocks' and the worms my bedfellows, And oh sac sound its 1 should sleep. "Wood-lice, or " slaters.'
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Evening Star, Issue 9775, 3 August 1895, Page 2
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200THE WINTON MURDER. Evening Star, Issue 9775, 3 August 1895, Page 2
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