ALLEGED CHILD MURDERS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5024, 13 May 1895, Page 2

ALLEGED CHILD MURDERS.

A WOMAN ARRESTED.

Jy Telegraph.—Press Association. • w Ddnedin, Saturday. f| ( In connection mth the arrest of Mrs Dean at Winton on the charge of the murder of an infant named Eva Hornsby, anumberof constables are engaged in searching the neighborhood of Clarendon for the body. The woman got possession of the child with £lO from its grandmother and had it whon she got out of the train at tie Clarendon Station. When she reached Invercargill she did not have tho child.

This morning the police found in Mrs Dean's garden the bodies of two baby girls answering the description of those left in her charge. Dean has been arrested on a charge of murder.

May 12. A One of the bodies found in tWy garden of Dean at Winton has been identified as that of the child whiobA''the woman Dean had on the 30th. Jf Tho woman left ChristchurimL_ because tho police had interfered in » a case in which she had received a child from a young woman and her mother. The child was being badly treated, and the police hearing of it, and tracing tho mother of the child, insisted on il being taken away. The extent of the trade carried on by the Deans can only be ascertained by those who entrusted them with children coming forward and giving information to tho police. Invercargilu, May 12, Tho garden at the house occupied by the Deans at Winton has been further searched by tho police, but the only thing of a suspicious nature found was a small skull, It is not certain yet if it is human. The elder infant, whoso body was found in tho flower pot, was in Mrs Dean's custody for four or five before she started for Milburn \yf Lurasden and Gore, and went with her. . The doctors who havo examined the bodies have found no distinct traces of violence. There are a few marks about the neck of a month-old baby, but tbesemay arise from decay, The grandmother of this child, identified its clothes in Dean's house. Charles Dean was at one time the holder of a large area of land at Etal Greek, Wairaki, but gave it up some years ago. He is a very old resident.

Mrs Dean is his second wife, and was the widow of a doctor. It is said she gives her age as 48, but she looks older. She is well educated. A preliminary letter to tho relatives of tho child Hornsby made great professions of kindness to the child, and spoko as if tho woman had a good position, Dean is somewhat affected by the aiTost, but the woman was not perturbed. She denied stoutly that shjfc, had overseen the porsou from who A she was said to have received the child Hornsby. While she was doing so. Detective Herbert noticed her surreptitously fumbling with some clothing, which sho stuffed into a bed. Herbert pulled it out, and tho woman identified the articles as the clothing the infant Hornsby wore whou she handed it to Mrs Dean, who thereafter maintained a stubborn silence.

The police had kept an oye on the woman, but had great difficulty in approaching hor, as she declined to register her home, although once lined for keeping children without a licenso.