The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-05


or conversation but the Dean case" and
vague rumors from unexpected quarters
deepened the fury of the people, who saw
oiIlly an outrageous miscarriage of JUS
tlce' in the condemnation of a man whose
CUNT was not proven, and now rather
unanimously believed TO be innocent.
sydney, with its suburbs, has a popula-
| ton of over 10000 and great public meet
lngs were held in all parts of the me-
tfOpol1S, which were addressed by excited
and vehement orators
The Dean committee applied to the
1 government for the record of the trial,
/ and the attorney general agreed that the
| public should be gratified." The judges
/ notes were also supplied, and this added
/ new fuel to the insane clamor. More pub
l lie meetings were held, and the people in
/ other cities Joined in the demonstration.
/ Had a usufper grasped the reins of SUI
/ preme power, with threat to subvert the
/ constitution, there could hardly have been
/ more excitement. On the evening of April
/ ~ the great town hall, the most magnit-
/ cent hall on the globe, was packed with
I 5000 people, TO impress" the government
/ in this Dean matter. Miles of petitions
/ were sent in to influence the government.
/ The government yielded to these public
demands and appointed a royal commits
/ sion to review the whole case. Three
/ men, in whom everybody had confidence,
| composed the commission A more search
| ing inquiry. ii is claimed, was never en-
/ tered upon. Both sides were represented
/ by the ablest lawyers in the colony. Every
| conceivable aspect of the case was inves-
\ tigated. The theory of the defense was
/ that Mrs. Dean had taken poison, or that
/ her mother had given II to her Tor the
| purpose of convicting Dean. 1t seems i'm
/ possible, but as a fact the women were
| practically on trial, and Deans innocence
| seemed TO be accepted by a vast majority
/ of the people. These women were 1eered
and hooted by feelingless mob and even
| proven to be eonsorts of thieves and pros
/ titutes, If not indeed, of that class them
| selves The Judge and attorney general
were villifed into helpless silence.
| The commission sat for over month,
| during which time there was no abatement
| of the public interest. There was no re-
| Taxation of the strain, but the feeling grew
more bitter against the women, untll
Dean became regarded almost as a martyr
to the savagery of these picked and de-
signing women.
port as follows:
| thought =" we have grave doubts if
| George Dean committed the offense with
which he is charged. and there
| fore recommend that he be released from
| further Imprisonment" The two physl-
clans on the commission signed the report,
the lawyer giving substantial reasons Ior
his non-currence. Dean was released and
was hero. He was admired, and almost
| enVied. Lovely women simperingly smil-
ed upon him, and brave men congratulated
/ him and said Bravo"
He went back to his employment, and
| thousands of people, chiefly women, made
manly brow and contemplate his manly
virtues. Throughout his trial and after
| his release his conduct was modest, nrm,
and so seemingly unconcerned as TO ex-
/ curiosity. Under the most severe tests he
betrayed no evidence of guilt and little
His most active solicitor, Mr.. Meagher.
! had mounted the wave of public furore
| and rode into pariiament on the popular
/ Deans back. Mr.. Meagher had made
| his mark" He had not been able to save
| his Innocent client" from an arbitrary
| Judge, but he had helped to kindle the
| flame of public indignation and rescue
him from a life prisoners doom. Dean
| having received the queens pardon, was
| safe. Meagher was a statesman, the
| judge was branded as Jeffrtes, and the
| women were more cheerfully jeered in the
streets as they were modestly starving
to death.
| tongue had been wagging Justify and the
| long ears of the same public were open
to every whisper. Not all were satisfied.
| There had been too many cruel insults,
too many shallow and disgusting boasts.
I There was yet some secret inquiry going
| ON and on Sept. is a member of the upper
| House Of Pariiamenf-the legislative coun-
| cil-asked the attorney general as to
rumor regarding confession" in the
/ ''Dean case" The whole country was
| thrown back into the old fever heat OF
| hate and expectation by the reply of the
| attorney general, that he must decline
| TO answer, as whatever communication
he had was of a confidential nature"
| Amusement was pictured on every face.
| for probably never in the history of crime
| m to sensationalism. What next? every
| one seemed to ask; not aloud in boist-
| erous tones as before, but in suspicious
Meagher few to Dean, and the "heroic
ferrNmanv with an air of injured inno-
cence that really intensified the anger of
| his friends against his prosecutors" PEE
| titioned parliament to furnish him with
| the statements upon which the attorney
| Generals insinuationS were based, that he
| might be free from such stains upon his
| 10 a affidavit
| his innocence of the attempt to poison his
| wife. Deans attorney again hurled insult
| and defiance at the heads OF the govern
ment, and especially at the Attorney-Gen-
| eral.
Satisfaction was demanded, when, 10,
| the ey-General being freed from the
| ALLEGATION of confidence" read in the up
per house on Sept &c a statement of Sir
| Julian Salamons, the foremost lawyer IN
! New South Wales, member OF the upper
| House, and the man VINO had conducted
! the prosecution of the Dean case before
| the royal commission, to the effect that on
| JuIy 49, Mr. Meagher had made full con-
fession to him of Dean, s quit nsseu upon
| in Earlinghurst jail, pending a demand Tor
! a rehearing of the case, after convlctlon.
| The city was wild. A bombshell from
| Russian man-of-war could hardly have
| created greater CONSERVATION. Mr. Crick,
| the partner of Mr.. Meagher, raved like
mailman. He assailed Sir Julian ana the
! AttorneyNGeneral with awful ylrulence
| in a speech in the lower House. Tor Crlek
| is a member of parliament, too. Crick's
| speech was a series of threats against
! The offending parties and also against the
! government This was Thursday night,
| sent a. Mr.. Meagher said nothing at the
| time simply asking the public to suspend
! Judgment until he was heard.
Briefly, the purport of Sir Julian Sala-
| mons statement was that, the Sydney
/ Telegraph mentioned, during the cam
! paign in which Meagher was riding so
| lofty a horse that by reason of his (Mea-
| eher's) incapacity as a solicitor In defend
! ing a man, now supposed to be innocent,
| he had put the county to enormous eX-
| pense by the royal commission, and he
/ Mica went to consult Sir Julian Sala-
| mons as to the propriety of bringing an
! action against the Telegraph for injuring
! his professional reputation. But the
! shrewd Sir Julian remarked that upon
| Mearher's claim that Dean was innocent
| there was some color of truth in the Tele-
| eranh's statement. The vain Meagher
/ eeouid not stand this, and frankly told Sir
| JuIian that Dean was not innocent, but
! Sui1fy as charged, and he gave all the de-
! tails of Deans confession to him. time,
\ Mace and circumstances. Sir Julian was
! diirnbfounded, but hesfated as to his ac-
| lion toward the public, until he had con-
| smiled the chief justice and other leading
! men of the bar 1t was agreed that duty