THE DEAN COMMISSION.
r Received May 20,10 p.m. ' Sydney, May 20, Before the Commission set up to i consider the Dean case, a man named 1 John Asprey, aged 70 years, found living in the bush at North Shore, i said his attention has been called to ; the caso on Saturday last, and he clearly identified Mrs Seymour, the j. mother of Mrs Dean, as his wifo, [ In the course of his evidence he declared that he married her at Hobart, whence ho in 1850 had been I transported for seven years on aj j ehaiije of stoaling, They kept s soveiul publichouses, and. lived . happily for a time; then rows, the i result of jealousy, ensued, and 1 finally his wife left him, taking with ? her the cash-box, and he had not seen her for the last 20 years, Some time befuro ho cleared out, o added tho witness, ho twico suffered e severely, and the symptoms were a those of iU'sonie poisoning. After!i wards lie discovert that the contents of a bottle of arsenic in the house r which he had bought for tho purpose :| of poisoning rats had mysteriously diminished. c
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5031, 21 May 1895, Page 2
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194THE DEAN COMMISSION. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5031, 21 May 1895, Page 2
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