ALLEGED CHILD MURDER.
A WOSIAN ARRESTED. (Pee Unite) Pbess Association.) Inverc&hgill, May 9. • At Winton tc-day Minnie Dean, T?3fe of Charles Dean, was arrested on a charge of haviug, on or about the 3rd inst, murdered an infant named Eva Hornsby. She was brought before the justices and remanded to the 16th insfc. to appear at Milton, Otago. The arrest was maae.Sy Detectives 51'Grratii (of D'onSdin) snd Hsrbbrc. Accusefl fias for several years made a-busioefs of Keepirijj infants, and wm once before the court on a charge of neg-lesfcing several cbildrcu under her cars, but was then scquitted. The police sre reticent as to the details of tiie presinii charge, bafc it ia understood that the infant was al>out a month, old.
The police, we undetouinc, h&se b'eeu keeping a. watch on this v?omen for seme thne past. It appears that she received the child tuppassd to lure b-jsii ruulo away with, from its g«.ndmothtj.- at Port Chalmers, and with it a premium of £10. Waea Mrs Dean nrrired at lovercErgiU she di<3 net have the child with her, ai_d the supposition is that e-he lefs the twin at BOine sfc-.tioa with the cbild and disposed of is m some way. Toe body ha 3 nob ye' 6 bsea found, bat.the chiid'u oloShing was found in tfce ivomaa's houte when she was airesttd.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 10356, 10 May 1895, Page 2
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223ALLEGED CHILD MURDER. Otago Daily Times, Issue 10356, 10 May 1895, Page 2
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