MISTAKEN IDENTITY.

Grey River Argus, Volume 21, Issue 3057, 3 June 1878, Page 2

MISTAKEN IDENTITY.

Napier, June 1. There has been a good deal of excitement here lately about the supposed presence in the district of the murderer Sullivan ; the man, however, is William Marskell, who came to the Colony as a Folding immigrant in 1874. His resemblance to Sullivan, which is very strong, caused him to be hunted from the West Coast, and he made his way over to this side. He was working lately at a farm owned by a person named Boyle, who told him that it was said of him (Boyle) that he was employing the murderer Sullivan, and so Marskell had better go to Napier to the inspector of police and have the matter cleared iap. He came into town jesterday with his wife and daughter, but the lodginghouse keeper turned them out into the street, aa the other boarders complained of having a murderer put with them. To-day he was

taken to gaol, and was shown to a prisoner' who alleges that he knew Sullivan well, but this is [not the man. Marskell is, apparently, a simple, inoffensive fellow, and speaks of his persecution very mildly, but is evidently overcome with grief, and wants the Government to send him out of the Colony. He is taller than Sullivan is said to be, but resembles him a good deal, judging by photograph 3 of that criminal. He fears that his life is not safe, as some people insist upon it that he is Sullivan, and have threatened him with violence.