THE SELF-CONFESSED MURDERER.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 9110, 22 May 1895, Page 6

THE SELF-CONFESSED MURDERER.

(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.)

AUCKLAND, May 21.

In the case of Samuel Evison, who is being detained in custody on his own confession of having been responsible for the death of a young woman in Nottingham in 1883, some additional evidence has been collected by the poiice which goe3 a iong way to confirm what the prisoner has already confessed. This morning a gumdigger called upon Inspector Hickson, and having said he knew something about the disappearance of the girl to whom Eviaon had refeired, he was asked to make a written statement of whac he knew. In this he asserts that he is a native of Worksop, Nottingham, and has known Samuel Evison sioce 1863. The latter, he aaye, was always very reserved, and seldom spoke unless spoken to. He was working as a carpenter in Nottingham afier serving his apprenticeship. The witness remembered haviDg read in the papers about June, 1882, that a girl was missing from the town of Nottingnam, but he had not since heard whether her body hid been found. He never heard any more about her. He also gave some .information about both his and the prisoners people which will bo of much use to the police in investigating the affair. The accused appears before the local Coart to-morrow morning.