MURDER AT WELLINGTON.
Wellington, Oct. 1. A man named Dean, an express* man, and for many years a cab-driver, split his child’s head open with an axo this morsmg. The man is supposed to be mad. Dr Rawson says he has little doubt that Dean is mad, though the man on being brought to the police station did not show any outward signs of mania. He had been employed by the Loan. Company, who recently dig’ charged him, and since then his intellect had been giving way. He lived in Abel Smith street, and first that was known of the tragedy was his coming in and telling his wife this moving he had killed theilittle girl. It was found he had dashed;her brains out with an axe, Dean is a unionist on strike.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 2106, 2 October 1890, Page 2
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133MURDER AT WELLINGTON. Temuka Leader, Issue 2106, 2 October 1890, Page 2
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