A CONFESSION OF MURDER.
I SYDNEY, Wednesday. A sailor named Newsome, who wit - tentencfld to 12 months for obtaining SOads iintler false . pl'eteilce!— on i th. -■ strength Of ait imaginary efcy-»h awaiting trial created a te«»»Mbll * hanairig the police a. document Implicat *&&£?&*&§*. & l Castle on the voyage from San Francis -a co tb Queahs'town In. 1902. In hi f statefl that he shot .tb ?{ captain and second mate, aiid then I with two shipmates who assisted i: "I the plot, escaped on a raft to •.Pitcairi t Island ; that he afterwards made hi he way to England, where he found tha n ' the captain had survived, though th "' mate died. Newsome, to-day, declare. j s that the confession was a bogus one j made when he was suffering from de , lirium. He says he learned the fact t when be was serving as a seaman abban lB the Leicester Castle on the voyage fol u ' lowing that whereon the shooting des 011 cflbed bSctilrefl:
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 18 April 1907, Page 4
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164A CONFESSION OF MURDER. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 18 April 1907, Page 4
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