CONFESSION OF MURDER.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5258, 14 May 1895, Page 3

CONFESSION OF MURDER.

A REMARKABLE CASE. THE PRISONER'S ANTECEDENTS. [Prß i'a»BS ABdCCIATIoH.I AUCKLAND, Mat 13. Last night a man named Samuel Eviaon, a carpenter, gave himself up to Constable I Forbes, of HamiltoD, and confessed to j having. caused the death by drowning of a woman whom he pushed into the river ' Trent, at Nottingham, in March 1882. The I constable having received hia statement, I he was taksn before a J.P. Evison ap- I peared poifectly sane, He Btated that ho j knew the woman only by the name of j Jenny, and he had betn acquainted with I 1 her only three week*. Her residence was I j unknown. She was employed ac a clipper I scollopcr in the lace trade. He statPß thsc ' she was twenty, of dark complexion with ' hazel eyes. At the time of the occurrence I ' he was employed by Meesrs Bell and Sons, J ' contractors and builders, Sherwood Street, J ' and boarded with another carpenter in I Waterway Street, Nottingham. His Bister and mother reside in Retford, Notting- I ham. Constable Forbes will bring Evisoa j to Auoklaad to-morrow. I AUCKLAND, Mat 14. Samuel Evison, the man self accused of I ■ murdering a woman at Nottingham, left ' England in 1882, in the ateamer Ophir, for J Sydney. He next went to Brisbane and I then to Auckland. He has resided fox J some years in the neighbourhood of Hamilton, lately working at the trade of a I carpenter in the township. He was well I respected, but was very reserved. J The prisoner was charged ab the Police Court, at Hamilton, on his j own confession, with having caused the J death of a young woman at Nottingham, I Eagiand, in JBB2, by pushing her down, J she striking her head on the coping stone J of an embankment of the River Treat, and ! rolling into the river. The prisoner was remanded for eight days, and will be brought up at Auckland on Tuesday next. Inspector Hickßon ha* communicated with the Commissioner of Police at Wellington, it is presumed with a view of cabling to the Sootland Yard authorities in London, and mabiog further investigations. . In his ccnfeSß'on Evison says : — " laMatch, 1881,1 was in Nottingham, England. I waa waking with a girl named Jeauy, whom I had picked up in the street about three weeks previously. I had a few words about seeing her with another : young man, and she hit me in tho face. I gave her a push, and she fall on her head oa tho atono coping on the edge of the footpath, aud fell into the River Trent. The coping waa built right up from ihe river, and formed a promenade close to Nottingham Trent Bridge. It was dark, but I saw her etrike the water and float down the river about six yards. She waa struggling in the water. I then came from the end of the bridge on to the road. I scarcely knew whas to do. I went over the bridge, c*me back and went home. I have never heard anything more about it. I was in a pss-ion at the time. I did not know the girl by any other name than Jenny. She waa in the lace trade. I did