THE DEAN CASE.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1741, 22 May 1895, Page 2

THE DEAN CASE.

EXTRAORDINARY EVIDENCE. Sydney, May 20. Before the Commission set up to consider Dean’s case a man named John Asprey, aged 70, t found living in the bush at North Shore, said his tion had been called to the case Saturday last, and he clearly identified Mrs Seymour, mother of Mrs Dean, as his wife. In his evidence he declared " he married her at Hobart, where he, in 1850, had been, transported for seven years on a charge of stealing-. They kept several public houses, and lived happily for a time. Then rows, the result of jealousy, ensed, and finally his wife left him, taking with her the cash-box, and he had not seen her for the iast twenty years. Some time before she cleared out he had twice suffered severely, and the symtoms were those of arsenic poisoning. Afterwards he discovered that the coir-, tents of a bottle of arsenic in the which he had bought for "the purpose of poisoning rats, had mysteriously diminished. - 1