THE BABY FARMERS.
MRS DEAN COMMITTED FOR TRIAL FOR MURDER. HER HUSBAND ACQUITTED. (By Telegraph.) IN\ ERCARGILL, June 8. At the Magistrates Court, Mr Poynton, S.M., committed Minnie Dean for trial, on the murder of Dorothy Edith Carter, and discharged her husband Charles Dean. He said there was no evidence at all against Dean, and that he left the court without a stain on his character. The police, however, were justified in arresting him as they did not know what evidence might crop up. He thought where the husband and wife lived together and where bodies were found buried in their garden it was quite within reason that the police should suspect the husband of being connected, and had there been any evidence against him at all he would certainly have committed him. Mr Hanlon, solicitor for accused, admitted that the police acted fairly, and were entitled to credit for the way they worked up the case. Dean shook hands with the solicitor and left the court. Mrs Dean will be tried at the sitting of the Supreme Court which opens on Tuesday next.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 8228, 8 June 1895, Page 3
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