SEAMAN'S STRANGE STORY.
ALLEGED BOOL'S CONFESSION 7 . Received 17th, 11.42 p.m. Sydney, April 17. A sailor named Newsome, who was sentenced to twelve months for obtaining goods by false pretences, on the strength of an imaginary legacy, while awaiting trial created a sensation by handing to the police a document, implicating himself in the shooting of the captain and mate of the ship Leicester Castle, on a voyage from San Francisco to C/ueenstown in 11102. The confession stated that he shot the captain and second mate, and then, with two shipmates, who assisted in the plot, escaped on a raft (o Pitcahu Island, and afterwards made Jiis way to England, where he found that the captain had survived, but the mate died. Newsome to-day declared that the confession was a bogus one, made when suffering from delinmi. He said he learned the facts while a seaman aboard the Leicester Castle, on a voyage after that whereon tlie shooting described netuallv occurred.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 18 April 1907, Page 3
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161SEAMAN'S STRANGE STORY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 18 April 1907, Page 3
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