THE DEAN SENSATION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5145, 2 October 1895, Page 3

THE DEAN SENSATION.

WHAT MR MEAGHER SAYS OF THE DEAN CONFESSION. AN INDIGNANT DENIAL. Rewind Odder 1,10 p.i». SroMKy, October 1. The Legislative Assembly was densely packed to-day to hear the reply of Mr Meagher, solicitor for Dean, and momber for the Phillip Division of Sydney, to Sir Julian Salomons, regarding the Dean case. Mr Meagher said he had not spoken before becauso be desired togivo his answer fully, explicitly aud dispassionately. Denn never in his life, ho continued, made any confession to him, and ho (Mr Meagher) nover made auy confession to Sir Julian Salomons. Ik denied the statements categorically, as a false and wicked fabrication. Ho did not boliovo that Sir Julian Salomons would wilfully, calmly and sanely ondeavour to set up a fabrication, and therefore ho could only say that the staloment was that of a man who was the creature of an uncontrollable mental impulse, the outcome of a mental affection which it was woll-knowu periodically took possession of Sir Julian Salomons' prolific brain. He (Mr Meagher) thoroughly believed t'jat Dean was innocent, and always had believed so. What he had dono for him ho was prepared to do again in the interests of justice and humanity. The Attorney-General bad stated that be believed from other information ho had received that the statements of Sir Julian Salomons vim true, and that Dean was guilty. It was, ho maintained, the Attorney-General's duty to produce this evidence, and if he did not do so he would denounce him as an arch-conspirator.

IN SIR J.SALOMON'S OFb'ICK. A DRAMATIC INTERVIEW. Rtcdvci Oetolier 2, 0.45 a.m. Svit.VEV, October 1. In roforenco to the interview in Sir Julian Salomon's office, (luring which the alleged confession was made, Mr Meagher read a written statement in the Assembly to the effect that he went to consult Sir Julian Salomons abuut the proposed action for libel arising out of the Dean case. „ After discussing this, Sir Julian |bl Salomons asked how Dean was gotW'"~ ting on, adding that he was an archscoundrol and fortunate in getting 08 before the Commission. Mr Meagher asked if an innocent man was not entitled to get off ? Sir Julian Salomons replied that if all the angels in heaven came down and swore that Dean was innocent, he would not believe them, Ho suggested to Mr Meagher that he had purposely omitted asking one of the chemists oiamined in Court whether he had supplied Dean with poison. Mr Meagher denied this, and Sir Julian Salomons pressed him to tell the truth, saying that he held in liis hands the solution of the ease. Ho ako enlarged on the terrible issues involved, and said that Judge Win- •■ deyer would have the stigma of|a judicial murder on him. Mr Meagher reasserted Dean's innocence; but Sir Julian Salomons said it was sheer nonsense, and then asked for a second interview, fl At this again he prossed Mr 1 Meagher to dear iip the mystery. \ He was very excited, and in a dramatic manner went into a long dissertation upon conscience, the soul and destiny. He pointed out j the great possibilities awaiting Mr Meagher if he would speak out, but threatened that if he would not reveal the terrible secret and do justice to those concerned he would be buried under mountains of remorse It made his blood run cold, he said, to see an unthinking public giving Dean receptions and otherwise showing their sympathy. Sir Julian Salomons added if Dean would leave the colony for ever and go to South America or .elsewhere, he would got £SOO, and'another £SOO would be forthcoming after ho had been away awhile, He asked Meagher if he would try to induce Dean to leave the country. Mr Meagher replied that ho sawno reason why he should leave, and would not make any such suggestion. Continuing, Mr Meagher said' that throughout he spoke to Sir Julian "y Salomons with the full belief in » Dean's innocence, and did not give him the least ground for his subsequent statements. Mr Meagher supplemented this written statement by saying that if he had had any confession to make he would have given it to Mr Pilcher, who defended Dean, and with whom he had friendly relations. Sir Julian Salomon's close intimacy with Sir W. Windeyer made it imposssible for him (Mr Meagher) to communicate the least information of importance to him.

As a further proof that the alleged confession was a fabrication, he said, it was a well-known fact that after a long estrangement Sir W. "Windeyer and Sir Julian Salomons had become as thick as thieves over the Dean ense, and were always consulting together, while the AttorneyGeneral (Mr Want) who had made every effort to injure him (Mr Meagher), was in daily communication with them and shrieked for Dean's blood. He considered he would have been a blithering idiot, a gibbering lunatic, had ho placed himself in the hands of this triple alliance by making a confession.