MURDER ON THE HIGH SEAS
A SAILOR'S CONFESSION.
By Telegraph Press Association.—Copyright.
(Received April 17, 11.43 p.m.)
Sydney, April 17. A sailor named Ncwsomc, who has been sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment for obtaining goods by false pretences on the strength of an imaginary legacy, created a sensation while awaiting trial by handing to the police a document in which he implicated himself in the shooting of the captain and mate of the ship Leicester Castle on the voyage from San Francisco to Queenstown in 1902.
In the confession Newsome stated that he shot, the captain and the second mate, and then, with two shipmates, who had assisted in the plot, escaped on a raft to Pitcairn Island, and afterwards made their way to England. There be. found that the captain had survived and that the second mate had died.
Ncwsome to-day declared the confession bogus and made when suffering front delirium. He had learned the facts while a seaman aboard the Leicester Castle on the voyage after that whereon the shooting described had actually occurred.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13465, 18 April 1907, Page 5
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