MURDER CONFESSED.
A New Zealand Mystery.
Unknown Man Shot at
Wairarapa.
Confession by a Prisoner.
JPRBSS ASSOCIATION.]
(by klbctkic telkhraph—coptrightJ
Sydney, this day. * Some time ago a passenger on the. voyage from New Zealand lost hisr portmanteau, and a man named Hare-; ford, arrested for vagrancy, was found'! wearing an article bearing the passenger's name. This led-to recovery of the goods. The same prisoner was accused of a similar charge at Newcastle, and was sent there for identification. On the return journey he attempted to escape from a train, after murderously assaulting a wardec with a,decanter. <:
Hareford, who is confined in Darling, hurst, has confessed that he murdered an unknown man while working in a bush in the Wairarapa district by shooting him. ' ;>
The murder took place-five years ago, and it is believed another man is
serving sentence for it,
From inquiries instituted by the police they think Hareford's confession authentic. '
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 106, 7 May 1896, Page 4
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