A Peculiar Case.

Opunake Times, Volume II, Issue 91, 17 May 1895, Page 4

A Peculiar Case.

Auckland, May 13.

Last night a., man named Samuel Evison, a carpenter, gave himself up to Constable Forbes of Hamilton, and confessed to having caused the death by drowning of a woman whom he pushed into the River Trent at Nottingham in March, 1882. The constable got his statement taken a justice of the peace. Evison apeared perfectly sane. He stated that he knew the woman only by the name of Jenny, and was acquainted with her three weeks. He states she was 20 years of age, dark complexion, with hazel eyes. May 14. Samuel Evison, self-accused of murdering a woman at Nottingham, left England in 1882 and has resided for some years in thg neighborhood of Hamilton. He was well respected but very reserved. He was charged at the Rohce Court, Hamilton, on his own confession, and remanded for eight days. In his confession Evison says ; —ln March, 1832, I was walking with a girl named Jenny, whom I had picked up in the street about three weeks previous. I had a few words about seeing her with another young mao, and she hit me iu the face. I gave her a push, and she fell on her head on a stone coping on the edge of the footpath, and into the river Trent. The coping was built right up from the river and formed a promenade close to Nottingham Trent Bridge. It was dark. I saw her strike the water and float down the river about six yards, tohe was struggling in the water. I then came from the end of the bridge in the road. I scarcely knew what to do - I went over the bridge, came back, went home, ami never heard any more about it. I did not know the girl other than as Jenuv.