FURTHER CONFESSION OF SULLIVAN.

Wellington Independent, Volume XXI, Issue 2388, 14 July 1866, Page 2

FURTHER CONFESSION OF SULLIVAN.

Sullivan has confessed that it was intended by himself and mates to rob the Bank of Now South Wales, and Murder the employees.

Sullivan also declines that a mim 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. Ch Dobson ; whom they strangled and left at tho foot of a tree in a sitting position, as if ho had died from exhaustion ; but afterwards they thought better of it, and wont and buried his body.

A further point in his confession of tho 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, while drinking with them to administer the poison, and then rob them. Ho is said to have mentioned tho place where this poison was hidden, and pi'obubly by this time it is in the hands of the police.

The mystery of the robbery of £2500 of gold in May last, from tho 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.