THE DEAN CASE.

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1795, 18 December 1895, Page 2

THE DEAN CASE.

.Sydney, December 14. In the conspiracy.ense Dean made a short statement. He said he wished to withdraw the confession made to the members of liis defence committee, as at the time it was obtained from him he was in a bewildered state, and c jmpletely driven in|o saying what he did. The worry of the previous couple of weeks, and the severity with which the interviewers had addressed him, made him f lirly collapse, and he said things which he. otherwise would not have said. He had said things about Meagher which were not true. It was on ,his own account and not because Meagher told him, and he had not previously made any statement. He also retracted the statement that another of the accused, Green, knew the facts of the case. Green did not know, and the only way in which he was connected with the case was in bringingletters from Meagher to Dean. Green also made a lengthy statement. Ho denied being .in Meagher’s confidence, and said' he had simply worked as one of the Dean Defence Committee. He took a message from Meagher to Dean, telling him that Sir Julian Salomons knew about the matter but that was all the’accused knew about •the confession. - - ; • - , : Later.

O’Connor completed his addaess on behalf of Crhk to-day. Meagher delivered a vigorous address on his own behalf, covering three hours and a half % He said the only thing which animated him.in agitating for Dean’s release.was that lie had not received a fair trial. It had been represented that Dean’s defence cast odium on certain persons. He pointed out that Sir J. Salomons raised a defence at the trial of the cold-blooded murderer, Bertrand, which, compared to his defenceof Dean’s, treambled and fluttered like a filmy gossamer, Attorney-Gen-eral Wan*-, when defending a prisoner accused of shooting a constable, raised the defence that the constable shot himself to gain promotion. Upon the astoundingand incomprehensible theory the j ury gave the prisoner the benefit of the doubt. He wished to know how those defences compared with his, which was basod upon a mis-trial that roused the indignation of all colonists from shore to shore. Dean’s counsel speaks to-morrow.