EVISON’S CONFESSION.
FURTHER EVIDENCE. Auckland, May 21. In the case of Samuel Evison, who is being detained in custody on his own confession of having caused the death of a young woman at Nottingham in 1882, some additional evidence has been collected by the police which goes a long way to confirm what the prisoner has already confessed. This morning a gumdigger called upon Inspector Hickson, and having said he knew something about the disappearance of the girl, he was asked to make a written statement of what he knew. In this he asserts he is a native of Worksop, Nottingham, and has known Samuel Evison since 1863. The latter, he says, was always very reserved, and seldom spoke unless spoken to. He was working as a carpenter in Nottingham after serving his apprenticeship, and witness remembered having read in the papers about June, 1882, that a girl was missing from the town of Nottingham, but he had not since heard whether her body had been found. He never heard any more about her. He also gave some information about both his and the prisoner’s people which will be of much use to the police in investigating the affair. The accused appears before the local Court to-morrow morning.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1212, 24 May 1895, Page 27
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208EVISON’S CONFESSION. New Zealand Mail, Issue 1212, 24 May 1895, Page 27
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