CONFESSION OF MURDER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9001, 14 March 1888, Page 5

CONFESSION OF MURDER.

[press association.] Sydney, Marc.Hi 13. Michael Carroll, aged 40, a giiswork labourer, gave himself in custody today, stating that he had murdered his sweetheart near Woolwich, England, 19 years 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 and Woolwich, and when she came he struck her violently on the head with a hammer and fled. The girl was found next morning alive, but she lingered a few hours and died. A man named Walter Pook, a printer, was arrested on suspicion of having committed the crime, and most! circumstantial evidence was adduced, but he was acquitted, amid great 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 a medical man, and found to be suffering severely from a drinking bout, but he' told his tale circumstantially, and was very minute in the details. ! ' ,