The Dean Conspiracy Case.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 139, 11 December 1895, Page 2

The Dean Conspiracy Case.

o (Per Press Association.) Sydney, Dec. 10. The case for the Crown in the Dean conspiracy is dragging slowly along. The evicence is mostly a repetition of that formerly adduced. Mr Goodchap, M.L.C., gave evidence that Sir Julian Salomons a day or two after he made the Dean speech in the Council, told him if he had been AttorneyGeneral he would have conceived it bis duty to release Dean in consequence of the improper observations of Judge Win* deyer on the matter. Dean's counsel objected to the admission of certain evidence on the ground that a Royal pardon madeitinadmissable. Dean impatiently interrupted " It's a pity I wasn't hanged for it at the time." Later. At the conspiracy trial to-dar, Meagher intimated that his line of defence would be that instead of conspiring to defeat the ends of justice, his real object was to serve justice by upsetting an unfair trial. He quoted Sir Julian Salomons' admission to Mr Goodcbap in support of hut contention. Counsel for the Crown deprecated tbe attack on Judge Windeyer. He submitted evidence to the effect that the son of Che foreman of the jury had died on the Saturday, and the Judge acted with a de* sire to finish the trial to as to allow the father to attend the funeral next day.