The Self-Accused Murderer.
(Per Press Association.) Auckland, May 14. Samuel Evison, the self-accused murderer, was brought down to Mount Eden Gaol tbis afternoon. He told Constable Forbes he could get no rest for thirteen years, and was nearly driven mad. In his confession Evison says : " ln March, 1882, 1 was walking with a girl named Jenny, whom I had picked up in the street about three weeks previous. We had a few words about seeing her with another young* man. She hit me in the face. I gave her a push, and she fell on her head on a stone coping on the edge of the footpath and then into the river Trent. The coping was brick right up trom the river and formed a promenade close to Nottingham. The Trent bridge was dark. I saw her strike the water and float down the rver about 6 yards. She was struggling in the water, I then came from the end of the bridge on the road. I scarcely knew what to do, I went over the bridge, came back and went home I never heard any more about it. I was in a passion at the time. I did not know the girl otherwise than as " Jenny,"
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 267, 15 May 1895, Page 2
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