FURTHER CONFESSIONS OF SULLIVAN.

West Coast Times, Issue 245, 5 July 1866, Page 3

FURTHER CONFESSIONS OF SULLIVAN.

Among the confessions of Sullivan is one to the effect that it was intended to rob the Bank of New South Wales, the plan being to enter it shortly after three o'clock on a mail day ; one of the men to ask an interview, with the manager on a pretence of a new gold discovery, and while he was closeted with the manager, the others were to overpower the clerks, and after murdering them, all stay until night-fall, and leave by steamer. In proof of this intention, he said that a package would shortly arrive from Australia, with masks, burglars' tools, arid other implements for carrying out the robbery. Sullivan also declares that a man named James Wilson, who was for a few months a bellman in Nelson, and was convicted of theft, was. concerned with Burgess, Kelly, and Levy in the murder of Mr G. Dobson, whom they strangled and left at the foot of a tree in a sitting position, as if he had died from exhaustion ; but afterwards they thought better of It, and went and buried hia body. A further point in his confession of the Maungatapu murders, shows an amount of

atrocity truly diabolical. It -is this. The gang had with them a quantity of deadly poison, either prussic acid or strychnine, and they had resolved if any party they encountered were too strong for them, to make friends with them, and while drinking with them to administer the poison and then rob them. He is said to have mentioned the place where this poison was hidden, and probably by this time it is in the hands of the police. The mystery of the robbery of L 2500 of worth of gold in May last, from the Bank of New Zealand at Okarita, is now solved by means of Sullivan, who implicates a police-officer in the employment of Canterbury Province, as having been concerned in the robbery.