THE CHILD MURDER CASE.

West Coast Times, Issue 10123, 5 June 1895, Page 4

THE CHILD MURDER CASE.

[per united press association.]

Invexcakgill, June 4.

The inquest on the body of Eva Hornsby, the infant found buried in the garden at Dean's house, Winton, was continued.

The evidence showed that Minnie Dean got the child and £9 10s from its grandmother, between MUburn and Clarendon on the 2nd May. That she left the train on the off side and that the child was not seen afterwards alive. Letters which Mrs Dean wrote to Mrs Hornsby were also produced and the child's clothing found in Dean's house identified by Det. M'Grath. The woman admitted that she got a child between Invercargill and Dunedin in the month of May, but said she was acting as agent for a person at Milton to whom she , handed it. Evidence was given that she had no baby at Milton and did not leave i her seat at the station. The woman who had kept the infant identified the body by a birth mark sore and by a mark of an accidental burn on the hand, and also by its clothing.

At the inquest on tke child Eva Horaiby, the medical evidence was to the effect the appearance of the body was not inconsistent with suffocation by external means. The jury, after a half hoar's retirement, returned a verdict that in their opinion the child was wilfully murdered.

The inquest oh the Christchurch child, Dorothy Carter, was also Completed, the jury returning a verdict of wilful murder against Minnie Dean. Professor Black deposed that a quantity of opium had been recovered from the internal organs, sufficient to cause death, and the medical evidence was to the effect that pott mortem conditions were consistent with death from opium poisoning.