A SOLDIER'S CONFESSION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13147, 9 April 1906, Page 5

A SOLDIER'S CONFESSION.

MURDER MYSTERY SOLVED. By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. London, April 6. A Royal Artilleryman named Clive, alias Morton, has been arrested and has confessed to having murdered Miss Camp on February I], 1897, while travelling in a railway carriage between Hounslow and the Waterloo station. The crime which is referred to in the above message was of an unusual character. On the arrival of the suburban train at Waterloo Station 011 February 11, 1897, at a-quarter past eight, the body of a young woman of 33 was found in a secondclass carriage quite dead. Her head had beon battered in by some heavy instrument, and the body rudely stowed away under the seat. The corpse was recognised as that of Elizabeth Annie Camp, manager of the Good Intent public-house in East-street, Walworth, who had that day been visiting a sister at Hounslow, and had returned to London by appointment to meet a tradesman named Berry, to whom she wis immediately to have bern married. He was waiting for her on Waterloo Station, and was the first to recognise the body. Her watch and purse had been taken away. A chemist's pestle with hair sticking to it like that of the murdered woman was found next day on the embankment between Putney and Wandsworth, and subsequent inquiry convinced the. police that th" victim had been murdered between those two .stations—that is, during a short five minutes' run—by some man who gave up his Ticket at. Wandsworth, and then disappeared. Miss Camp bore an excellent eharWei, was of unusual personal vigour, weighing lost, and though well-to-do, had nothing about her to tempt: a murder for plunder alone.