THREE MURDERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 116, 17 May 1924, Page 19

THREE MURDERS.

MOSS YOUTH'S CONFESSION. Confession to three murders has been made to the Mons police by Emile Dupret, tbe 18-year-old son of a bargeowner. The accused was originally arrested after having told his sweetheart that he had killed a man. He then described how, with the aid or his cousin, who is 15J, he shot dea* another man. at Nallnnes, near Charleroi, and robbed the body of about three hallpence. Dupret has now given details of a third crime. He said that, searching among some old iron in the neighbourhood of Charleroi, he came across an axe and kept it because be thought it "might come in useful." A little later in the day, while walking along the banks of the Sambre, he was overtaken by a man. "I was seized," declared the youth, "witn the idea of splitting his head open, just as a test of my newly-acquired weapon. With all my force I gave him two rapid blows on the back of the head with the axe, and he just said 'Ouf and dropped. I found 154 francs in his pockets, an* then rolled the body down into the river." The dead man's body was, indeed, recovered from the Sambre on December 3 last, and the affair had remained a mystery ever since.