A MURDER CONFESSED.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1789, 14 March 1888, Page 2

A MURDER CONFESSED.

(PEE PEES 3 ASSOCIATION.)

Sydney, March 13. Michael Carroll, aged forty, a gasworks laborer, gave himself into cus'.ody to-day, stating that he had murdered his sweetheart near Woolwich, England, nineteen years ago. The girl's name was Mar/ Clanstone, and she had quarrelled with Carroll, refusing to have anything to do with him. The prisoner subsequently made an appointment with her m a lane between Deptford and Woolwich, and when she came he struck her violently on the head with a hammer and fled. The girl was found next morning alive, but she lingered only a few hours and died. A man named Walter Pook, a printer, was arrested on suspicion of having committed the crime, and most circumstantial evidence was adduced, but he was acquitted amid great indignation. Carroll let the story our. m a drunken fit, and eventually asked for a policeman to give himself up ; he also admitted serving fiva years at home for badly assaulting a gas manager. The man has been a soldier and deserted twice. He was recently concerned ia a sly grog selling case, and is generally a bad lot. He was examined by medical men, and found to be suffering severely from a drinking bout, but he told his tale circumstantially and was minute m the details.