The Winton Baby-Farming Case
Tuesday's Oamaru Mail says : — " Mrs Dean appears to have been pur- j suing her avocation for some years j regularly at least, and investigations . now being made by the police show that she operated in various centres. In IS9O, in the months of July, Hep- \ tember, and October, she advertised in our columns for children to adopt, and : received several responses to the ad- j vertiseinent so issued. She was of- j fered £35 premium to adopt a child of , Mr John McLauchlin's, and negoti- j ations were concluded on that basis, the child being taken away by Mrs Dean. The father recently died, and the executor of his estate, on making enquiries of the woman, who admitted the adoption, was told that the child had been adopted by a highly-respect-able family in Melbourne, whose address she refused to divulge. The police are now investigating this case. The police have a belief amounting almost to conviction, that a second child was entrusted to her care about the same time in this town, and are making inquiries on this point.''
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 271, 20 May 1895, Page 2
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