ALLEGED CHILD MURDER IN SOUTHLAND.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1744, 22 June 1895, Page 2

ALLEGED CHILD MURDER IN SOUTHLAND .

Invercargill, Thursday. This afternoon the Crown Prosecutor addressed the jury in .the Dean infant mtirder case, and Mr Hanlon followed tor the defence, calling no witnesses. Counsel spoke for about 90 minutes each, and after the conclusion his Honor said, that he should defer summmg up till the following morning, considering that the jury had had a sufficiently trying day. The Court was crowded during the afternoon withiN~ * and. without the barrier, women, of / whom a large number were present, having to be content with standing room, Mr Hanlon’s line of defence was that the death of Dorothy Edith Garter was the result of misadventure, the acqused having given her an overdose of laudanum. There might have been culpable negligence, and if the - juiy weie of that opinion they might ietum a verdict of manslaughter: but .® vi( ien ce , he contended, did not justify the graver finding of wilful murder. The jury, he said, had nothing to do with the cause of death of Eva Hornsby-that was for another 3“ ZK deal V th .’ Tie de ath of that child, he submitted, was caused by suSocation through vomiting milk ' given by Mrs Hornsby. 6