WINTON BABY FARMING CASE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 10319, 29 May 1895, Page 2

WINTON BABY FARMING CASE.

« THE ADJOURNED INQUEST. [per press association.] In'\crcarcui,l, May 28. — The adjourned inquest on the body of the infant, Dorothy Edith Carter, found in the garden of The Larches, Winton, and with the murder of' whom Minnie and Charles Dean are charged, was resumed to-day. The child was traced from the hands of its grandmother", a Christchurch woman, who gave it to Mrs Dean, passing as Mrs Gray, at the Bluff, who weut to Winton on April 30, thence to Dipton on May 2 by train with Mr Dean. The child was iv the carriage of the evening train to Luciadun when the guard passed thiough the first and second time*, but disappeared before Lumsdcn was reached, and at no subsequent time was it seen with her. The tin box which she carried was light at Dipton. At Lumsden a 12-year-old boy could scarcely carry it, and it was heavy when she returned home on Saturday without the child but with her clothes, and those of the smaller baby in a parcel. The girl who went to meet Mrs Dean at the train said that she told her the box contained bulbs from a lady at Matawa, but this was^ denied by the girl. Mrs Dean left the box all night in the rushes in a paddock, and brought it to tha house on Sunday still as heavy as on Wednesday. ,AU the railway guards identified Mrs ' Dean, who is well-known through frequent travelling, and a chemist at the Bluff deposed to selling laudanum on April 30th, when she signed tho poison book " M. Gray," the writing being identified as Mrs Dean's. The inquest will be continued tomorrow.