The Winton Murder Charges.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5278, 7 June 1895, Page 4

The Winton Murder Charges.

[Per Pbess Association. J INVERCARGILL, June 6.

At the magisterial inquiry into the alleged murder of the infant, Dorothy Edith Carter, by Minnie and Charles Dean, there was little new evidence to-day. It came out that the infant was not the child of- a married woman un Chrißtchuroh, but of a young girl, and that Mrß Dean did not get any premium whh the child. Ten pounds were to be. paid on June 1. The girl Cameron, who had been with Mrs Dean fourteen years, and whose name had been used in correspondence regarding the transfer of the infant, unhesitatingly identified the writing-in the letters as that of Mrß'Dean, and was equally emphatic in asserting tbat the signature "M. Gray" in the ohemiff a poison book was also her writing. Witness was not about the -.Deanir bouse at the time this correspondence was going on and knew nothing about it. Esther Wallace, a girl of fifteen, who resided with the Deans, said that the woman waa kmd to the ohildren, that she took off her cloak and wrapped it round the infant Carter, while crossing the .paddooks to the house on the night Bhe brought her from the Bluff. She also said that she heard Dean aßk his wife if the lady who was to adopt 'Dorothy had any children of her own, this tending to show that Charles Dean was nnder the impression that the child was going to someone else when taken away from The Larches. The hearing was adjourned.