FISH'S CONFESSION.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 153, 20 June 1876, Page 4

FISH'S CONFESSION.

At an adjourned inquest on the remains of Emily Holland, held on April 20, the following written confession by Fish was handed in to tbe coroner : — •" Pol ioe- office, Blackburn. "Statement by William Fish, who has this day been brought before the magistrates, and oharged with tbe murder of Emily Holland, on the 28th of March, 1876. ' ' I told Constable William Parkinson that I had burnt part of the clothes, and put the other part on the coals in cay shop, and; I .wish to Bay tbat I; am guilty of the murder. I further wish to say that I do not want the innocent to suffer. At a few minutes past 5 in the evening I was standing at my shop, door in Moss-street, when the deceased child came past. She was going ap Moss-street, and I asked her to bring me half an ounce of tobacco from Cox's shop. She went and brought it to me. I asked her to go in my shop ; she did. I asked her to go upstairs, and she did. I abused her, and she was nearly, dead. I then out her throat with a razor in the front room near the 6re. I then carried the body downstairs,. in,to the shop, and cut off the head, arms, and legs, and wrapped the body up in newspapers, and put those; parcels into a box in the kitchen. The arms and head I put into the- fire. On Wednesday afternoon I took the parcel containing the legs to Lower Gunliffe. At 9 o'clock the same night I took the parcel containing the body to a field at Bastwell, and threw it over the wall. On Friday afternoon I burnt part of the clothing, and on Wednesday morning I took part of the head which was burnt and put it into the chimney in the front bed-room. I further wish to say that I did it all myself, ; no other person bad anything to do with it. The fore?going. has-been read over to me, and it is, correct. It is my voluntary statement. Before I made, the statement I viras told it would be taken down in writing, and given as evidence against me. William Fish."