THE DEAN CASE.
Received My 2,10.30 p.m. Sidney, July 2. The report of the Dean Commission has been laid on the table of tho House. The medical members of tho Commission bold that the facts are quite as compatible with the hypothesis that Mrs Dean, for reasons that can only be surmised, and by methods of which she alone has cognisance, administered arsenic to herself, possibly at the prompting of her mother and without any intention of taking a fatal dose, as that the poison was administered by her husband with intent to kill. I
The President, Mr Kogers, Q.C., adds a minority report. Mis opinion lis that it is unreasonable to suppose ' that a girl on tho threshold of life would risk hei existence by taking deadly poison for tho purpose of bringing a false charge against her husband.
On this ground he did not concur ! with the opinion of his colleagues,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5067, 3 July 1895, Page 2
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153THE DEAN CASE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5067, 3 July 1895, Page 2
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