A PLEASANT COMPANION.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1509, 22 May 1886, Page 2

A PLEASANT COMPANION.

A prisoner who was brought op on remand at Plymouth Police Court recently on a charge of obtaining £ls by false pretences, mude in extraordinary statement with regard to two mardera he said he had committed. He was charge! in the Dam* of Shad well, with two aliaaea, but his real n'oroe is Henry de Nobielle. His story is,; that in Paris where his fnther is a physician, he and* another young man named Grove's,were in lore with the same young lady. Subsequently, they both obtained berths on. board a barque asy fir«t and second mates respectively. prisoner says that fearing Grove's wua treacherous, he shot him and thrrir him overboard. Shortly afterwards the oaptain died, and the prisoner brought the barque-.back to Hull, 'where he ssid both of the • missing men had di#d of yellow fever.. He adds that in 1883 he waa confiued in the.Wakefteld asylun for some months, and this part of his narrative has been confirmed on enquiry by the Plymouth police. A'ffet, his release ho obtained two sovereigns from an asylum official, and returned to Paris, where he ■> induced the young lady with ha had keeping company t) return with him to Goole. Here he says he indioed , her to walk with him into the country where he shot her and burit-H her bridy iu a field, The prisonier's'statements are bejnpnquired itiipi