THE DEAN CASE.
Press Association.—Electric Telegraph.—Copyright Sydney, October 3. In the Legislative Council in the debate on the Dean cose, Mr. Pilcher said, personally he would not have disclosed confidences such as Mr. Meagher was alleged to have made. Such a course was unwarranted, unless to save an innocent man from gaol or the scaffold* The issue at stake was not whether Dean was guilty or innocent, but whether Mr. Meagher said he was guilty. Ho had no doubt in his own mind that Dean did not make the confession attributed to him. After the Attorney-General's speech the matter dropped. The Chairman of the Dean Defence Committee was interviewed, and said Mr. Meagher admitted that, during a conversation with Sir J. Salomons, be jocularly remarked that the Government were hunting Dean as guilty. The Herald states that, in the face of the brilliant and vigorous display of intellectual power, resources, and forensic argument oi; Sir J. Salomons, the suggestion that his original abatement emanated from a mind subject to hallucinations is simply shrivelled up and vanished.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9942, 4 October 1895, Page 5
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