REPENTED TOO LATE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLI, Issue 9290, 11 August 1920, Page 3

REPENTED TOO LATE.

" I KILLED THE BEST WOMAN.?'

HUSBAND'S DRAMATIC CON-

FESSION

"She alienated my affection from my wife, and has been the instigation of this murder. ... I killed the best woman. . . ; I, kissed her hand with the wedding ring on and said I was sorry, and then flung her overboard." | This was a portion of the dramatic) confession alleged to have been made j to the police by Arthur Andrew Goslett, accused of the* murder of his wife at Hendon, when Dr. Cohen, the j Middlesex Coroner, resumed the inquest on Mrs Evelyn Goslett, aged 43, whose body was found in the River j Brent at Hendon on May 2. i Inspector William Brand read the following r'ntement, which, he said,, G" t' ctt' in ade voluntarily to him in the i poiicfi cell on' May •">:' — "This affair fc *]i through her (re-, fcrvina; to a 'Miss Holt). She alienated ray affection from my wife; and she has been- the instigation' of- this murder. I am poing .to-have the rope, and am going down under. I am speaking the truth. Inspector, believe me, I have been putting it off from day to day for the last six months. I meant doing it a couple of nights before, but hiy .heart failed me. ; " She called .me a coward when I paw her afterwards, the same as she has often done. I killed the best woman.- I see my mistake. She is the coward. When I returned home on Saturday, night I intended to poison mvsclf, and I asked her to take poison with me as we were in bed together. She was too frightened and kept pleading excuses that she would like to live for the sake of the child. We spent a wretched night. Believe me, I never intended escaping. I never even troubled to get out of bed and dress. I was in bed when your people came to the door." Detective Superintendent Neil, of the C.1.D., said that Goslett stated to him :—" Oh, sir. I will tell you the truth. I did kill my wife. I want to toll the truth. She (Daisy Holt) forced mo to do it. She kept on at me until I did it. I did it with' a tyre lever, which you, will find in my tool box in the- kitchen behind the pram."

Sir Richard Muir, read a.long statement alleged to have been made by Goslett, which contained the following passages: — "This murder case is entirely my own fault. I was forced to do it. . . . I was called a coward and was threatened by this girl. Her. real; name is Daisy Holt. -.. . I love, my wife. I thought the world of her, and this gn-1 tantalised me to kill her. ... "I told Daisy I had done the job. . . . I told her the best thine; was to poison ourselves. ... She kissed me. I told her I should never be able to love her. She asked why, and I said because she had led me astray. "I said to my wife, ' Come 'alonr*. She took my right arm. . . . We turned into one of the roads thajfc lead to the place where she was found. .' . .' I did not know there was a river there until I came, up to it. It; was Daisy Holt who suggested I should take my wife down to that place and stun her and throw her in the river. ... "I turned' to my wife. I thought if was the |nw to do it. I struck heron the back of the head With the tyre lever • three or four blows. She was clean gone when she fell. When she fell I took the jewellery from her neck. "I kissed her hand with' the wedding ring on, and said I was sorry, and then flung lier overboard." ..' Detective.. Inspector Duggan said "tliere was no corroboration of the ■statements made by Goslett that Daisy Holt was an accessory. The inquest was adjourned until Juno '1 for the attendance of Daisy Holt. •