THE CHILD-MURDER CASES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5048, 11 June 1895, Page 2

THE CHILD-MURDER CASES.

i By Tcletjraplt.-Pim Assoatition. ' Lwercakgili,, Juno 11. At the inquest on the skeleton of i the child found in the garden of the • Deans at Winton, Margaret Cam, ■ eron, who had lived with the Deans ■ for 14 years, deposed that a child ■ named Cyril Swullar was brought | from Oamaru by Mrs Dean about five years ago. He remained at The Larches about three years, and ' one day in April about two years, } ago, when all grown-up people about tie house were absent, he disappeared, and Mrs Deau said ho had been taken away in a buggy by a ; lady from Gore. She saw her give tho child laudanum that morning. Mrs Dean afterwards said the child had gone to Sydney. Wituess rememi bored a boy named Henry being • brought by Mrs Dean live years ago. , 1 He was there eight or nine months, | 1 and disappeared in the same way, ; when no one but Mrs Dean and tho i . children were about the house. She ; said a lady from Wallncetown had taken him. Witness remembered a ] boy named Sydney McKernon being j brought to The Larches four years , ago, Mrs Dean said from Dunedin, j He was a few weeks old. A woman came twice to enquire,and Constable Rasmussen came withhortkesecoud i time, Sydney had disappeared about ] 12 months before. Witness was told ] that the child had gone to a lady about Woodlands. Another child, Willie Pholan, Mrs Doan brought , from Dunedin five years ago, He t was then about two years old, Tho i child remained at The Larches a few months ft 1893, and disap- ( peared when no one was about the place but Mrs Dean, who said a woman from Invercargill came for him. Mrs Dean did not treat this child woll. She would knock him i down, and bump his head on the ( floor. Mrs Dean was in the habit of getting drunk, but abused tho child { when sober. , After'other ovidence, the jury returned a verdict that the -identity of the skefeton was not established, B buttheevidonco points strongly to ( the remains being those of Willie L Phelan, T