THE WINTON BABY-FARM-ING GASES.
MINNIE DEAN SENTENCED TO DEATH. [UNITED PRESB ASSOCIATION.] Invercakgill, June 21. The suggestion made to the jury by Mr Hanlon, counsel for Minnie Dean, m regard to the death of the child Dorothy Carter, is that the death resulted from the misadventure of prisoner having given the child an overdose of laudanum. There may, he urged, have been culpable negligence, amounting to manslaughter, but there was nothing to justify the graver finding of wilful murder. His Honour deferred his summing 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 Guilty. When asked whether she had any reason to offer why sentence should not be passed upon her, Minnie Dean rose, and m a firm clear voice said, " No ; I have only to thank Detective M'Grath for his 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 m the crowded Court.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXI, Issue 153, 22 June 1895, Page 2
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183THE WINTON BABY-FARMING GASES. Marlborough Express, Volume XXXI, Issue 153, 22 June 1895, Page 2
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