The Dean Case.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 85, 7 October 1895, Page 2

The Dean Case.

A TKEMENDOUS SENSATION. ALLEGED CONSPIRACY. ARREST ( F VEAGHER, CRICK, AKiJ DEAN. i>EAN MAINTAINS HIS INNOCENCE. (Per Press Association.) Sydnky, Octobers. A tremendous sensation was caused in the city this afternoon, when the Dean case assumed another phase. Mr Meagher wass arrested first. Mr Crick (his partner) went to the police station to bail him out, when be too was taken into custody. Later on, Dean was arrested, all three being charged on a warrant issued by the Crown with conspiring to defeat the ends of justice. By 4 40 a)l the accused were bailed, the amount of bail being fixed at .±'3ooo each. It is understood that the arrests eventuated through some communication made by Smith (chemist) to the Attor ney-General, but the purport is unknown, though it is surmised that it nets at rest the question where did the poison come from. Crick, when interviewed after his release, had very little to cay, remarking that Mr Want, the Attorney General, had taken hiio away from some pieces of boiled fish to-day (referring to the fact that he was lunching at the lime he heard the warrant was out), but " he will find me turned to a shark before this is over," and added •■ I have not taken any action before, but now will make revelations which will make those in high places sit up." He described the action of the Crown as a political job October 6. The Crown holds a statement, on oath, from a certain chemist that he supplied Dean with two different kinds of poison. Warrants were issued for the arrest of Meagher, Crick, and Dean at the instance of the Attorney-Generul. Dean still maintains his innocence, and declares he is not afraid of the final result. The Truth newspaper publishes an alleged confession by Smith (chemist) to the effeci that Dean purchased a qnan tity of both tirsenic and strychnine from him (Smith). The sale was not entered in the poisons' book and there were no witnesses, aud in the light of subsequent complications Smith was afraid to confess. There is good authority for stating that several more arrests will be made in the course of a day or two. Sir J. Salomons, interviewed, 9aid he had received a large number of letters since he made his statement — one contained information which led to the arrests yesterday — but he declined at present to make any disclosure?.