MONTE CARLO HORROR

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 19 August 1907, Page 2

MONTE CARLO HORROR

GOOLD'S CONFESSION.

Paris, August 16. Since confessing Goold has been more composed. He sleeps well, and hopes the authorities will favorably consider the plea that he acted on impulse in a heated altercation under the influence of drink. As Levin is proved to have been possessed of ample means, the magistrate at Monte Carlo describes Goold's ' confession as a tissue of lies. The lioolds married through a matrimonial • agency, the wife accepting Goold as a ( man of title.

THE PRISONERS' GAOL LIFE. MEANS TO INDUCE CONFESSIONS. | Received 18th, 4.53 p.m.

Paris, Augu-4 18,

Prisoners have been placed in Goold's cell since the moment of his arrrest, j with a view to drawing him out in eon- ( versation, and to the autlioi 1ties any admissions. A similar procedure has been taken in the case of Mrs Goold. IS GOOLD MAD? A TURN FOR THE WORSE. NIGHTMARE DELIRIUM. INDICATION OF THE LINE OF DEFENCE. Received 18th, 4.53 p.m. London, August 17. Rcutcr's Marseilles' correspondent reports that Goold has taken a sudden turn for the worse. The Public Prosecutor was informed that Goold was seized during the night with a delirium nightmare of the crime, 1 screaming that his legs had been cut oil, and removed in a bag. He attacked his 1 cell companions, tearing their clothe 3 1 and raining blows on their heads. His i excited conditiou is attributed, besldeß * a view impression of the murder, to the sudden stoppage of whisky, which he " had absorbed intolerably. His wife's counsel has asked for the 1 appointment of a receiver for hia estate, £ on the ground that he is insane.