The Child-Murder Cases.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 286, 7 June 1895, Page 2

The Child-Murder Cases.

(per press association.) IXVEUCAIIGILL, JIIUG 6. At the Magisterial enquiry to-day into the alleged murder of the infant Dorothy Edith Carter by Minnie and Chas. Dean, there was little new evidence. It came out that the infant was not the child of a married woman in Christchurch, but of a youug girl, and that Mrs Dcau did not get any premium with the child, but that £10 were to be paid on the Ist June. The girl Cameron, who had been with Mrs Dean for 14 years, and whose name had been used in correspondence regarding tic transfer of the infant, unhesitatingly indentiticd the writing of the letters as Mrs Dean's and that the signature " M. Gray " in the chemist's poison book was also her writing. The witness was not about Dean's house at the time this correspondence was going on, and knew nothing about itEsther Wallace, a girl of 15, who resided with the Deans, said the woman was kind to children, and that she took off her cloak and wrapped ifc round the infant Clark, while crossing the paddocks to the house on the night she brought the child from the Bluff. She also said she heard Dean ask his wife if the lady who was to adopt Dorothy had any children of her own, this tending to show that Charles Dexn was un der the impression that the child was going to someone else. The case was adjourned.