The Recent Confession.
[Press Association, j Wellington, May 18. If Trudgeons's story is correct he would have been a boy of 15 years of age at the time of Hawkins' murder. The police lay little stress on the confession, "which they believe is -merely for the purpose of notoriety and to escape another charge hanging over his head. Mrs Hawkins knows no one named Hareford or Trudgeon in her husband's employ.. There was a lad named Marsden employed to the end of February, but she remembered no casual hand previous to the murder.
Mrs Chemis knows no one named Trudgeon or Hareford working for Hawkins, but the boy in his employ had stated to Ohemis his intention of "doing for" Hawkins when he became a man on account of iil-treat-ment.
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Thames Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 8352, 18 May 1896, Page 2
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