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

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(Per Press Association.) Sydney, This Day. Crick states he intends to bring the matter before Parliament on Tuesday. He is firmly convinced the action taken is, so far as he is concerned, with a view to shutting his mouth, and discrediting him so that when he does speak be may be, in the words of Salomons, an accused person. He is satisfied the Cabinet never sanctioned the action of the Attorney-General, and long before the case was heard public opinion would be strongly against the latter. Before the Crown can enter on any case against Dean, or anyone else, they have to substantiate Dean's guilt, and that they will never do. He cannot see where his part in the conspiracy comes in, as he had only seen Dean three or four times, and that since he was convicted. Meagher states he has no fear of the result of the prosecution- He intends to make a statement in Parliament, and will only say now that the denouement in regard to what has actuated the prosecutions will prove a revelation to the public. Mrs Smith, interviewed, said she had no idea where her husband was, but she gave an absolute denial of the statement that he (her husband) had admitted selling poison to Dean. She said she was certain he never did so. Detectives had been engaged for a fortnight in tracing the sale of poison, and had several interviews with Smith. Dean, who is closely watched and kept away from the seaports by members of his defence committee, refuses to make any statement beyond reiterating his innocence. The committee still maintain its belief in him, and are preparing for his defence. It is asserted that certain of the most important statements made by Salomons have, in a remarkable manner, received confirmation, by the statements made to the chemist by a person closely associated with Dean. The chemist felt compelled to disclose what he knew owing to the pain of mind he was suffering from through his possession of the secret. The Premier, who was absent at Paramatta, was completely surprised by the news of the arrests when informed. He could hardly believe it, and immediately left for Sydney. Smith waited on the Attorney-General on Friday evening, and voluntarily confessed he had given arsenic to Dean. He said he wished to make a clean breast of the whole matter. He. then made a statutory declaration which forms bulky documents. Smith goes into minute details of the transaction, and says he did not sell, but gave a quantity of arsenic to Dean for the purpose of exterminating vermin. As there was no witness he did not fulfil the provisions of the Act and enter a note in the poison sale-book, and only confesses he gave the arsenic. With a view of proving conspiracy, the Crown will endeavour to prove that Crick and Meagher became aware that Smith had supplied the poison to Dean, and a great point in the case will be that after Dean was convicted and in gaol his attorneys, knowing him to be guilty, persisted in the agitation for his release, and ultimately succeeded in bringing about his freedom. On the other hand, presuming a knowledge of Dean's guilt is proved, consideration will have to be given to the question as to how far a solicitor is entitled to consider any communication coming from a client as confidential, thus the case may bristle with legal technicalities as well a3 sensational revelations.