AN EXTRAORDINARY CONFESSION.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIII, Issue 10653, 14 May 1895, Page 5

AN EXTRAORDINARY CONFESSION .

[Pee Press Association,] AUCKLAND, Mat 13. Last night a man named Samuel Evison, a carpenter, gave himself up to Constable Forbes, of Hamilton, and confessed to having caused the death by drowning of a woman whom he pushed into the river Trent, at Nottingham, in March 1882. The constable having received his statement, he was taken before a J.P., Bvisoa appeared perfectly sane. He stated that he knew the woman only by the name of Jenny, and he had been acquainted with her only three weeks. Her residence was unknown. She was employed as a clipper scolloper in the lace trade. He states that aha was twenty, of dark complexion with hazel eyes. At the time of the occurrence he was employed by Messrs Ball and Sons, contractors and builders, Sher Wood Street, and boarded with another carpsnter in Waterway Street, Nottingham. His ciptsr and mother reside in Retford, Nottingham. Constable Forbes will bring Evisoa to Auckland to-morrow.