Alleged Child Murders.

Manawatu Herald, 14 May 1895, Page 3

Alleged Child Murders.

4 Mrs Dean has been arrested at Win ton, on the charge of the murder of an infant named Eva Horns* by. The woman got possession of the child, with £10, from its grandmother, and bad it when she got out otthe train at the Clarendon Station. - When she reached lnvercargill she did not have tbe child. The police found in Mrs Dean's farden the bodies of two baby girls nswering the description of those left in her charge. Dean has been arrested on a oharge of murder. One of the bodies found in the garden of Dean at Win ton has been identified as that of the child which the woman Dean had on the 30th. The woman left Christchurch because the police had interfered in a case in which she had received a child from a young woman snd her mother, and the' polioe hearing of it, •nd tracing the mother of tbe ohild, Insisted on it being taken away. The elder infant, whose body was fonnd in a flower pot, was in Mrs Pean's custody for four or five days before she started for Milburn via Lumsden and Gore, and went with ber, The dootors who have examined the bodies have found no distinct traces of violence. There are a few marks about the neck of a monthold baby, but these may arise from decay. Tbe grandmother of this child identified its clothes in Dean's house. £ Mrs Dean is his second wife, and was the widow of a dootor. Dean was somewhat affected by tbe arrest, but the woman was not perturbed. She denied stoutly that she .had ever seen the person from whom she was said to have received the child Hornsby. While she was doing so, Detective Herbert noticed her surreptitiously fumbling with some clothing, which she stuffed into a bed. Herbert -4 pulled it out, and the woman identic fied tbe articles as the clothing the infant Horsby wore when she landed it to Mrs Dean, who there* after maintained a stubborn silence. —Press Association.