THE WINTON SENSATION

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8564, 5 June 1895, Page 2

THE WINTON SENSATION-

(Per United Press Association.)

lavßßOAxenz, Jane 4.

The inquest on the body of Eva Hornsby, the infant found buried in the garden at Dean's house, Wmton, was continued to-day. The evidence showed that Minnie Dean got the child and JB9 10s from its grandmother between Milton and Claredon on th» 2nd May, and that she loib the train on the off sid«, and that the child was not afterwards teen alive. The letters which Mrs Dean wrote to Mrs Hornsby were also produced, and the child's clothing found in Dean's house was identified.

Detective McGxath said the woman admlttea that she got a. child between Invercargill and Danedin in the month of May, but said she was acting as agent for s> person at Milton to whom she had handed it.

Evidence was given that she had tbe baby at Milton ansl did nob leave her seat at the station. The woman who had kept the infant identified the body by a birth sore or mark or accidental born on the hand, and also its clothing.

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The inquest om the infant Eva Hornsby concluded to-day, the verdict being wilful murder against Mrs D*an. Tke medical evidence was to the effect that death, was caused by asphyxiation by mechanical meant, tkare being nothing in the Btate of the organs to indicate death from natural causes.

The inquest of the Christchnrcb. child, Dorothy Carter, w»i also completed* the jury returning a verdict oil wilful murder against Minnie Dean. Professor Blaok deposed that a. quantity of opinm bad been recovered from the internal organs, snffieient to cause deatk, and the medical evidence was to tbe effect that tike pott- .mortem conditions' wera conanstimt with death from opium poisoning. - A