Inquest.

Colonist, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8260, 29 May 1895, Page 3

Inquest.

Invebcaboill, May 28. At tbe inqneßt on the body of the infant Dorothy Edith Carter, found in the garden of Larches at Win.on, and with the murder of whom Minnie and Chatles Deau have beeo oharged, the child w<_B t-aced from the, bands of tbe grandmother (a Christen arch » Woman), wbo gave it to Mrs Dean, who was passing as Mrs Gray ; from tbe Bluff to Winton on tbe 30th uit., and thence to Dipton on 2nd ies.. hy train wuh Mrs Dean. The ohild waß in tbe carriage on tha evening train to Lumßden when tbe euard passed through the firet nnd second t 00 . but disappeared before Luoieden waß reused, and on no subsequent time was it Been with her. The tin box wbich she oarried was light at Dipton. /t Lumsden a 12-year- -..1d boy oould fccaroa.y carry it, and it wbb beavy wben she returned homo on Satordiy night without tbe ohild, bui with bor clothes and thoee of a Ema'ler baby in a patol. Tbe girl wbo went to meet Mrs Dean at the train said that Bhe told her tbe box oontained bulbs from a lady at Makura, but this nas denied. The girl by Mrs Deuu's order left tbe box all night in Bucbes, in a padlock. It was brought to the bo:_s9 o-i Sunday, Btill as heavy. On Wedn>day I saw it outside the door, empty. All the railway guards identified Mrs Dean, who is well-known through frequent travelling. A demist at the Blufi disposed to eel ing laudanaum on the 30. h Uit., wh n sha signed in the poison's book " M. Gray," thd writing being ideat.fi d as Mrs DeanV. The iuqu_B_ wul be continued to-morrow.