Confession of Murder.
[By
Telegraph.]
Auckland, May 13. Last night a man named Samuel Evison, a carpenter, gave himself up to Constable Forbes at Hamilton and confessed to having caused the death by drowning of a woman whom he pushed into the river Trent at Nottingham, England, in March, 1882. The constable got his statement taken before a J.P. Evison appeared perfectly tane. He stated that he knew the woman only by the name of Jenny, and was acquainted with her only three weeks. Her residence was unknown to him, but she was employed as a clipper and scolloper in the lace trace. She was 20 years old, of dark complexion, with hazel eyes. At the time of the occurrence he was employed by Bell and Sons, contractors and builders, Sherwood street, and boarded with another carpenter in Waterway street, Nottingham, named Herbert Johnson. Evison states that his sister and mother reside in Retford, Nottingham. Constable Forbes brings him to Auckland tomorrow.
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Southland Times, Issue 13216, 14 May 1895, Page 2
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