SELF-ACCUSED.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1739, 15 May 1895, Page 2

SELF-ACCUSED.

.... A NOTTINGHAM TRAGEDY

ARREST OF A MAN IN HAMILTON'

OxSuaday night a maananrd Sam uel Evison, a carpenter, gave him.,elf up to Constable Forbes,' o? HamiHou, and confessed to having caused the death, by drowning, of a woman, whom he pushed into the river Trent, at Nottingham in March 1882. The constable got his statement before a; Justice of the Peace.* Evi.ou appeared to be perfectly sane. Ho stated that he knew the woman ! only by the name of Jenny, and was : acquainted with her only three week-, her residence being unknown to him ] She was employed as a clipper and , scalloper in the lace trade. ' EvEoo 1 states that she was 20, of dark com- ; plexion, and had hazel eyes; 5 foot jin height. At. the time of the 0000 <•- rence he we:, employed by Bell and Son, contractors and builder:, Shcr-wood-street, and boarded with another carpenter in Waterway-street, Nottingham, named Herbert John; on Evison states that .his . mother and sister reside in Retford, Nottingham. Evison left England. i.u 1882 in the Steamer Opbir for Sydney. He next went to Brisbane, then *0 Auckland. He has resided; for some years iu the neighbourhood of Hamilton, lately working at the trade of carpenter in the township. He was well respected, but was very reserved. _ Prisoner was charged at the Police-Court, Hamilton, on Thursday adernoon, before Mr lCnox, J.P., 0 u his own 1. onfessien with havingnaused the of a youhg woman at Nottingham, England, in 1882, by pushing her down, she striking her head on the coping stone on the embankment of the river Trent, and roiling into the river. Prisoner was remanded for eight days, when he will be brought u p at .Auckland on Tuesday next, 1 Constable Forbes brought the prisI oner to Auckland yesterday by train. I is in possession of all the facts, and has communicated with the Commissioner of Police, Wellington, it is presumed, with a view of cabling to the (Scotland Yaid authorities, London', and of makingfurther investigations.