BABY FARMING.

Colonist, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8246, 13 May 1895, Page 3

BABY FARMING.

Charge of Murder

[Per Tnitcd Prees Aaaooition.] Duhbdin, May 11. At Winton this morning the police after a close search of the premif.es of' the Deans began to dig up the garden, and found the bodies of two baby girls, which anßwer the description of those left in oharge of Mrs Dean. As the bodies were quite fresh it if assumed that burial was quite recant. The Deanß have betn arrested on a oharge o murder. May 12. One of the bodies found in the garden of tbe Deans at Winton has been identified as that of tbe child which the woman Dean had on the 30th ultimo. The police theory is that when the woman got out of the tra : n at Depton she killed tbe child and placed the body in a large hat box she was oarrjing. She then joined the train and proceeded to Lumsden. Next day she traveled by the Waimea Plains line, and caugh 1 t-e express to Dunedin at Gore. Between Milburn and Clarendon she received another obild, and getting out at Clarendon is supposed to have disposed of the child and plaoed the second body in the hat box. She then joined the evening train for the Sooth, and after slopping at Clinton for the night, made her way home. The grandmother of the latter child and the woman who had had oharge of it for some time left for Clinton yesterday afternoon, and were to drive with Detective MoGrath to Winton to identify the body. The woman Dean iB believed to have carried on the trade for years, £be left Christchurch because the polioe had interfered in a ca c in which she had received a child from a young woman and her mother. The obild was being badly treated, aod tbe police learning of it and tracing the mother of the child, insis ed on its being taken away. The extent of the trade carried on by the Deans can only be ascertained by those who entrusted them with children coming forward and giving information to the police. Imvebo&bqill, May 12. There is not much new to report re ihe alleged child murdera. Tbe garden at the Larches, the house occupied by the Deans at V int jn was further eearohed by the polioe, tba only thing of a suspioioua nature found being a small Bkull, but it is not certain yet if it is a human one. The elder infant, whose body was found in ajflower plot, was in Mrs Dean's custody f r four or five days before she Btarted for Milburn via Lumsden and Gore, and went with her. The dootors who have examined the bodieß found no distinct traces of violence ; a few marks about the neck of the month old baby, but these may arise from decay. The grandmother of this child identified its clothes in Dean's bouse. It is snppoeed that the infants were stifled by holding a cloth over their faces sufficiently long. Charles Dean was at one time holder of a large area of land at Etal Creek, Wairuki, but gave it up some years ago. He is afvery old resident. Mrs Dean is his second wife, and was the widow of a doo or. It is said she gives her age at 48, but looks older, and is well educated. A preliminary letter to a relative of Hornsby'a baby matte great professions of kindneSß to the child, spoke as if the woman had a good position, and said that sbe would understand the yearning of a woman who had lost all her children for the love and care of the little one. Dean is somewhat affected by the arrest, bat the woman was unpertubed. She denied stoutly that she bad ever seen the person from whom Bhe received Hornsby's infant. While doing so Detective Herbert noticed her surreptitiously fumbling with some clothing, which she Bluffed into a bed. Deteotive Herbert pulled it out, and tbe woman identified the articles as the clothing Hornsby's infant wore when she handed it to Mrs Dean, who thereafter maintained a stubborn silence. The people of Winton have long had suspicions of foul play, and the polioe were keeping an eye on the woman, but had great difficulty in approaching her, as she declined to register her house, although once fined for keeping ohildren without a license. It iB probable that efforts will be maae to connect her with another Infant found some time ago. Tbe polioe also have information tending to show that Mrs Dean blaokmailed single women whom she knew had given birth to children.

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