THE WINTON MURDER CASE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2826, 8 June 1895, Page 3

THE WINTON MURDER CASE.

Invercargill, June 6. At the Magisterial enquiry into the alleged murder of the infant Dorothy Edith Carter by Minnie and Charles Dean, there was little new evidence today. It came out that the infant was not the child of a married woman in Christchurch, but of a young girl, and that Mrs Dean did not get any premium with the child; £lO was to be paid on the Ist June. The girl Cameron who had been with Mrs Dean 14 years, aiyl whose name had been used in the transfer of the infant, unhesitatingly identified the writing of the letters as that of Mrs Dean, and was equally emphatic in asserting that the signature “M. Gray,” in the chemist’s poison book was also her writing. Witness was not about the Deans’ house at the time when this correspondence was going on and knew nothing about it. Esther Wallace, a girl of 15, who resided with the Deans’, said that the woman was very kind to children ; that she took off her cloak and wrapped it round the infant Carter while crossing the paddocks to the house on the night she brought her from the Bluff. She also said that she heard Dean ask his wife if the lady who was to adopt Dorothy had any children of her own, this leading to show that Charles Dean was under the impression that the child was going to someone else when taken away from The Larches. The hearing of the case was adjourned.