CONSTANCE KENT AND THE BRIGHTON SISTERHOOD.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 6, Issue 294, 3 August 1865, Page 3

CONSTANCE KENT AND THE BRIGHTON SISTERHOOD.

In a recent letter on the Road murder published in the Standard, which paper has, ever since the confession of Constance Kent, urged that she is not guilty, and that her confession has been prompted by ot her persons for unworthy motives ; it was insinuated that the sisterhood where she resided induced her to withhold her avowal until she was of age, and was able to leave herproperty to that community. For this malignant accusation there was not the shadow of evidence, any u)ore than for the charge made in the leading columns of the Standard that Mr Kent and not his daughter was the murderer. With reference to the charge against the Brighton Sisters of Mercy, (he following letter appeals in the Standard: — “ Sir. —The unworthy imputation conveyed by the letter of your anonymous correspondent ‘ 11. H. S.,’ is one which in this neighborhood would have scarcely needed any notice But away from Brighton, and where the character of Mr Wagner is unknown, as the question is one winch might reasonably be asked, it shall receive a straigtl'orward reply. '* It is quite true that Miss Kent received a sum of money on her coming of age in the early part of the presettyear. A considerable portion of thfs sum, I am informed by Mr Wagner, she wished to apply towards the charities of St Mary’s Hospital, but he declined to receive if. “On the evening of the day before Miss Kent left Brighton a sum of between £7OO and £BOO was found in one of the alms-boxes of St Paul’s Church, and Mr Wagner has since ascertained that it was placed there (though without his knowledge) by Miss Kent. This money is now in the London and County Bank, and will be retained only until its proper application shall have been determined by Sir George Grey.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, " Arthur W. Woods, •‘Solicitor to the Rev. A. D. Wagner. “ Brighton, May Bth.”