THE BEAN CASE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10496, 21 October 1895, Page 2

THE BEAN CASE.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copj-lght, Syrnksj, October 19.

Dr Crooke, of Cootamuodei, say£ th-fc no rational man can come to any other conclusion than that Dean is insane, although the insanity existed in a suppressed form until brought into activity by a'desire to release himself from his domestic trouble. Dr Crooke states that Dean's mother was mad, that his father Hew onfc his brain., and that his sister was mad. A remarkable coincidence is that poison and the dread of being poisoned were the overpowering features of the mother's case, and that she took extra means to escape that danger.

When Dean was taken to Darlingharsfc Gaol, Detective Hinds handed to the warder in charge a copy of tbe Daily Telegraph, with the report of Meagher's confession.- " Let him sec that," he aaid, as there seemed to be an impression in his mind that Dean was going to confess. Dean was deeply moved en reading tha details of the confession. Its purport he had learned b.fo.-e his arrest. He gazed a long time a^ the piper after reading it, aad a deathly pallor came over hi 3 face. When asked what he thought of it he said, " I don't know, lam sure. It looks as if they were trying to save themselves and letting me go." He then kept murmuring to himself in a perturbed manner. Shortly after there arrived at the gaol He___rs Goddiutd and Moodie, of the North Shorn Dean Dafence Committee, with an order for admission from the Attorney-general. They b*d become fully convinced of Deau'a guilt, and their object was to try and obtain a confession. Dean was brought from his cell before Messrs Moodie and Goddard aad two gaol officials. He was utterly dejected, and commenced fco complain ' mo-i, bifctaily about the aotion of Meagher, who he said had treated him unfairly. The prisoner was in such a state that as soon as he was asked he made a fall confession, fche text: of which was subsequently signed by him. In a communication fco the Attorney-general, referring again to Meagher, Do_n laid he would have eouf-f-ed _o-.>i_e_ but for tbe strong way in which Mesgh.-r hftld out. If Meagher had held out true, ho (Dean) would alto have kept his counsel. After nuking his confession Dean returned to his cell an utterly mbdued man.