GOOLD'S CONFESSION

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 16 November 1907, Page 3

GOOLD'S CONFESSION

RELATES CALMLY 110\Y UK COMMITTED THE Ml'KDEfi.

Muntc Carlo, September IS. "llow long did it take you to kill, strip, and cut up your victim?" asked the examining magistrate ill le-examin-ing Vere Goold with regard to the details -jJ liie Lrunk crime. "About three hours, or three and a-ipiarter,'' answered Vere tiuold calmly.

"And where was the trunk with the remain, during the night after the murder?" .M. Savard continued. "By uur bedside," said Coold.

if. Suva id had spent a long day in the prison with Acre (ioold anil his wife. From Mrs fioold he had learnt nothing new, Imt from her husband he had oxIrai'ted an account of what happened immediately after the murder, which ae< nuiit is uiie ul' the worst specimens of cali eisaess in the history of modern crime.

l-'i;r \ ere (Joold is absolutely callous, lie l"i ms no phrases, makes no theatrical di-play of nervousness, but answers all I i" ipiestions that are put to him as ci.■.'//'and simply as though he were mined about a game of cards. lie speaks"KnjslUh only, and Jl. Visijuis, the intenireer, I relates what lie says. "The body was in the box-ream, and my wife anil 1 stripped the body vf its clothes and of its jewel-;.- -""My wife took the dollies into the kitchen, where she burnt them in the range." The examination shows that it was on the Sunday and not oil the following day that the Goolds cut up the body of -Mine. Km ma Levin and put it ill the trunk. Hut M. Savard is not yet satisfied. Jle wishes to prove, and he means to make every ell'ort to do so, that -Mrs Coold took an active part in the actual murder.

Her husband declares that slie held the victims hands, and her appearance alter the crime iu a white teagown prove* that she had changed the dark skirt which she had l>een wearing. This skirt, which was found in the trunk, is stained and splashed. Mrs tloold declares,that the stains were made in the trunk, but the magistrate does not believe her.