TEE WINTON BABY-FARMING CASE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9840, 7 June 1895, Page 5

TEE WINTON BABY-FARMING CASE.

[by TKLKURAPH. —PRESS association.) Invkrcaboill, Thursday. Ax the magisterial enquiry into the alleged murder of the infant Dorothy Edith Carter by Minnie and Charles Dean it was stated that the infanb was nob the child of a married woman in Christchurch, and l:hab Mrs. Dean did not get any premium with the child. The sum of £10 was to be paid on the Ist of June. The girl Cameron, who had been with Mrs. Dean four years, and whose name had been used in the correspondence regarding the transfer of the infant, identified the writing of the letters as Mrs. Dean's, and asserted that the signature " M. Gray" in the chemist's poisonbook was also her writing. Witness was nob about; Dean's house at the tiu.3 this correspondence was alleged to be going on, and knew nothing about it. Esther Wallace, a girl of 15, who resided with the Deans, said the woman was kind to children, and that she took off her cloak and wrapped it round the infant Carter while crossing the paddocks to the house on the night she brought her from the Bluff. She also said she heard Dean ask his wife if the lady who was to adopt Dorothy had any children of her own. The hearing was adjourned.