A SELF-CONFESSED MURDERER.

Evening Star, Issue 7470, 14 March 1888, Page 1

A SELF-CONFESSED MURDERER.

SYDNEY, Mabch 13.

Michael Carroll, aged forty, a gasworks laborer, gave himself into custody to-day, stating that he had murdered his sweetheait near Woolwich, England, nineteen yeais ago. The girl’s name was Mary Clouston, and she had quarrelled with Carroll, refusing to have anything to do with him. The prisoner subsequently made an appointment with her in a lane between Deptford ano Woolwich, and when she came he struck her violently on the head with a hammer and fled. The girl was found next morning alive, btt she lingered a few hours and died. A men named Walter Pook, a printer, was arrested on suspicion of having committed the crime, and most circumstantial evidence wasadduced, but he was acquitted amid gnat indignation. Carroll let the story out in a drunken fit, and eventually asked for a policeman to give himself up. He also admitted serving five years at Home for badly assaulting a gas manager. The man has been a soldier, and deserted twice. He was recently concerned in a sly-grog selling case, and is generally a bad lot. He was examined by medical men and found to b§ suffering severely from a drinking bout, buf he told his tale circumstantially, and was very minute in the details,