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Hatboxes containing baby dolls, such as this one, were sold outside the courthouse during Minnie Dean's 1895 trial. At her trial, Dean's lawyer Alfred Hanlon argued that all deaths were accidental, and that they had been covered up to prevent adverse publicity of the sort that Dean had previously received. On 21 June 1895, Dean was found guilty ...
The only woman to be executed in New Zealand, Minnie Dean, was a baby farmer, although in 1926, a male baby farmer, Daniel Cooper, was executed for the death of his pregnant first wife and two subsequent infants. In Australia, baby-farmer Frances Knorr was executed for infanticide in 1894. [3]
[3]: 232 Throughout the British Empire in the 1890s, concern arose over the negligent standards of "care" offered by baby farmers. Minnie Dean and others may have been viewed as equivalents to John and Sarah Makin and Frances Lydia Alice Knorr in adjacent New South Wales in Australia, or Amelia Dyer in the United Kingdom, who were her ...
Minnie Dean: 12 Aug 1895, Invercargill: The only woman to be executed in New Zealand. A "baby-farmer" convicted of killing children in her care. 53: Etienne Brocher (aka Stephen Bosher) 21 Apr 1897, Wellington: Convicted of the double murder of his neighbours. Brocher entered into their house and stabbed them to death during a robbery in Petone ...
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In Dean Edwards' short time on "SNL," he created several impressions, including Denzel Washington, Don Cheadle, and Michael Jackson. After the show, the now-54-year-old appeared in "Spider-Man 3."
Tom Long (died 15 December 1908 [1]) was the New Zealand government hangman in the late 19th-early 20th century, [2] although it was not a full-time position. [3] He executed the "baby farm" murderer Minnie Dean, the only woman hanged in New Zealand.
On the season finale of "Who Do You Think You Are" Minnie Driver unraveled the truth about her father's double life. Minnie said her Dad was full of secrets and hid many things about his life ...