THE ROAD HILL MURDER.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 1119, 22 July 1865, Page 9 (Supplement)

THE ROAD HILL MURDER.

Constance Kent has, it is affirmed, since her committal, and in the presence of Mr Rod way, the solicitor to the family, asserted to her father that she obtained possession of the night-dress which was found in the flue and was afterwards missing, and burned it in her bedroom. When her father went to see her at the gaol, she was writing, but on his entrance she rose and met him kindly, but afterwards burst into tears. She was sinking, but her father caught her in his arms. She also stated that the wound in the side of the deceased child was inflicted by her with her father's razor, and in'thrusting the deadly weapon into the body she endeavored to implant it in the heart. The interview was of o most painful character, but the prisoner was more composed than her father. On parting, she embraced him, and persisted that the course she had adopted wasdue to himaud her God^ It is asserted that Miss Kent will be tried in London instead of Wiltshire, the venue being changed under the Palmer Act, on account of local prepossessions. It is rumoured that criminal proceedings in respect of this crime are about to be instituted against some persons other than the prisoner. Mr Woods, solicitor: to the Rev. A. D Wagner, writes toa contemporary, as follows: — , , - ", "It is quite true that Miss Kent received a sum of money pn her coming of age in the early part, of the present year. A considerable portion of. this sum, I am informed by Mr Wagner, she: wished to apply towards the charities of St Mary's Hospital, but he declined to receive it. On the evening of the day before Miss Kent left i Brighton, a sum of between L7OO and LBoO.was found in one of the alms-boxes pf St Paul's Churchy and Mr Wagner has eipce ascertained that, it : was placed there (though without bis knowledge) by Miss Kent, The money ia now. in the London and Cqunty. Bank, and; will ; be retained only'until its proper application: shall have been determined by, Sir George Grey.