THE CHILD-MURDER CASES.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVII, Issue 2529, 7 June 1895, Page 2

THE CHILD-MURDER CASES.

By Telegraph.—Press Association, Xnveroaboill, June 6. At the Magisterial' enquiry to-day into the alleged murder of the ’ infant Dorothy Edith Carter by Minnie and Chas. Dean, there was littlo new evidence. It camo out that the infant was not the child of a married woman in Christchurch, but of: a young girl, and that Mrs Dean did not get any premium with the child, but that .£lO were to be paid on the Ist June. Tho girl Cameron, who had boon .with Mrs Dean for 14 years, and whose name had been used in tho correspondence regarding the transfer of the infant, unhesitatingly identified the writing of the letters as Mrs Dean’s, and was equally emphatic iu asserting that the signature “M. (}ray " in the chemist's poison book was also her writing. Tho witness was not about Doan’s house at the time this correspondence was going ou, and knew nothing about it.. Esther "Wallace, a girl of 13, who resided with tho Deans, said the woman was kind to children, and that she took off her cloak and wrapped it round tho : infant Clark, while; crossing tho paddocks to tho house on tho night sho brought tho child from the Bluff. She also said she hoard Doan ask his wife if the lady who was to adopt Dorothy had any children of her own. this tending to ‘ show that Charles Doan was under the impression tliat the child was going to someone elso. - Tho case was adjourned.