Shocking Occurence
I PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.! Wellington, October 1. A man named Dean, an expressman for many years, now a cab-driver here, being a Unionist out on strike, split his child's head open with an axe this morning. The child is three years of age. Dr. Bawson says there is little doubt that Dean is mad, though the man, on being brought to the Police Station, did not show any outward signs of , mania. He become involved with the Loan Company, who recently distrained on {him, and since then his intellect has been giving way. He lived in Abel Smith street, and the first that was known of the tragedy was his coming hi and telling hiß wife this morning that he had killed the little girl. It was found he had dashed out her brains with an axe. This Day. Dean's wife states that latterly her husband has been talkingjwildly, and act- ' ing very peculiar in his manner. Dr Bawson considers Dean, without doubt, was a lunatic, and not responsible for his action. From the appearance of the child it must have been deliberately held down | on a block of wood with one hand, and the blow delivered with the other.
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 46, 2 October 1890, Page 2
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