THE DEAN MURDERS.

Thames Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 8055, 29 May 1895, Page 2

THE DEAN MURDERS.

(Per Press Association.)

Invercargill, May 28,

At the inqtiest on the body of the infant, Dorothy Edith Carter, found in the garden of the Larches at Winton and with the murder of whom Minnie and Charles Dean are charged. The child was traced from the hands .of the grandmother ( a Christchurch woman), who gave it td Mrs Dean, passing as Mrs Grey, thence at the Bluff to Winton on the 30th ult., and thence to Dipton on the 2nd inst. by train with Mrs Dean. The child was in the carriage of the evening train to LuinsI den when the guard passed through the first and second time, but disap- ! peared before Lumsden was reached I and at no subsequent time was iit seen with her. The tin box 1 which she carried was light at Dipton, : and at Lumsden a twelve year old boy could scarcely carry, it it was so heavy. [ When she returned home on Saturday without the child, but with her clothes : and those of a smaller baby in the 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 Mataura. By Mrs Dean's order she left the box all night in the rushes in a paddock, and it was brought to the house on Sunday still as heavy. On Wednesday she saw it outside the door empty. All the railway guards identified Mrs Dean, who is well known through her frequent travelling. A chemist at the Bluff deposed to selling her laudanum on the 30th ult., when she signed the poisons book #'M. Gray," the writing being identified as Mrs Dean's. The inquest will be continued to-morrow,

This day, THE INQUEST.

At the iuquest on the body of Edith Garter, one of the bodies found in Dean's garden, evidence was given as to the handing over of the child to Mrs Dean, who said her name° was Gray, On May 2nd Mrs Dean left Winton and returned on May 4th. She took a tin box which was heavier when she returned than when she left, The oiloloth in which the body was burned was ideutified as Dean's,

The guard $f the railway said that ]\lrs Bean and the qhild^got on t]ie train and when slie left the train at Lumsden he did not see the child with her, She had a tin box with her.

The inquest was adjourned uiiti next day,