WILLIAMS IN AUCKLAND.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 69, 22 March 1892, Page 5

WILLIAMS IN AUCKLAND.

Mr John Leydon, auctioneer, informs us that ho remembered a Williams, a hawker in Auckland, who, he says, left here for South Africa, and who, he thinks, may be identical with the man charged with the Windsor murder. It seems doubtful, however, whether the man bearing that

name, respecting whose movements we have received telegrams from Wellington and Dunedin, is the same as the man who stands accused of the catalogue of horrible crimes in England and Victoria. The following telegram from '"Wellington, however, seems to show that a Now Zealand Williams, who followed the calling of cloth hawker in New Zealand some years ago, was at any rate peculiar in his habits and his ideas, more especially with regard to the fair sex.

The Wellington "Prese" says:—"Our reporter had this morning an interview with a lady residing in this city who states she is the wifo of the cloth hawker Williams, but expresses her conviction that her husband 19 nob the man suspected of the recently disclosed tragedies. She also showed our reporter a letter just received from her husband, and dated Adelaide On the 7th instant. In thh letter, which is written in a remarkably good hand, Williams asks his wife to return to him, but says nothing bhab can lead to the idea that he was, ab the time of writing ab any rate, in any trouble. The lady, however, is naturally somewhat apprehensive, and will probably cable to her husband for information on tho subject. Since then we have seen another lady who also resides in Wellington, and claims to be the wife of the cloth hawker. She accompanied him to America and Africa, bub she is not sure of his whereabouts. This lady also has doubts as to his idenbiby with the murderer, bub i 3 nob by any means positive he is not tho man. Both ladies are under some apprehension, and wo may add both are possessed of considerable personal attractions. Jttoth agree that tho man to whom they claim to be wedded was a rover, and never remained long in one place. Since writing the above we learn that a letter, dated July last, from Melbourne, was received here from tho cloth hawker. It may further be added that ho had, on the testimony of one of the ladies referred to, no mechanical or constructive ability whatever, and was deficient in animal courage, of which tho murderer musb have had a considerable share."