TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.
A Lunatic Kills Hlr, Child. [By Telegraph.] (United Press Association.) 1 Weclikgtox, Wednesday. A man named Dean, an expressman who for many years has been a oabdriver here, split his child's head, open with an axo this morning. The child is three years old, The man I is supposed to be
Later, - Dr Rawson says there, is little doubt but that Dean is mad, though the man on boing brought to the police station did not show any outward signs • of madness. ■ He wa3 involved with a Loan Coy,, who recently distrained on him, and since then his intellect has been giving way. ■ He lives in Abel-Smith street, and the first that was known of the tragedy was his coming in and telling his wife this morning ho had l;i'.led the little girl,. It was found lie had bashed its brains out with an axe. Dean was a Unionist on strike,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3627, 1 October 1890, Page 2
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153TERRIBLE TRAGEDY. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3627, 1 October 1890, Page 2
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