GIRL BRUTALLY KILLED
MURDERER’S CONFESSION SURRENDER TO THE POLICE. LONDON, July 6. George Payett, w'ho surrendered to the police after killing Christine Cordell at Watlham Abbey, Essex, has been again remanded. In a statement to the police Payett said: “I had been friendly with Miss Cordell, and took her to whist drives until my wife objected. I wanted Miss Cordell to continue lodging at my house, and when she refused I became angry and took a cattle-killer to frighten her. “We struggled, and I put the killer to her head and struck it with a mallet. She cried, ‘Don’t darling!’ Twice I tried to commit suicide with tho killer, but failed.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12503, 20 July 1926, Page 7
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