A MYSTERY CLEARED UP.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8115, 9 April 1906, Page 5

A MYSTERY CLEARED UP.

LONDON, April 6. A Royal Artilleryman named Olive, alias Thornton, who has been arrested, has confessed tbat he murdered Miss Camp, on 11th February, \1897, whiie travelling in a railway carriage between tfonnsl;..w, near 1 Windsur. and Waterloo Station, ' London. 1 (A railway cieauer at Waterloo, entering the carriage of the 8.25 p.m. train, from Feltbam, on February 11th, 1897, found the body of a woman under the seat of the railway carriage. Her forehead had been battered in fay some heavy implement. A eeaich along the line brought to light a blood-stained pestle, clotted with hair. The body was identified as being that of Miss Camp, a barmaid at Walworth. Evi--5 dentiy she had struggled hud for her 1 life for the carriage was in indescri- : ble disorder, and the sides of the oompartment were blood bespafc--1 tered. The dues in the hands of the 1 police were vigorously followed up; everything tbat seemed to have the slightest bearing on the case was thoroughly investigated, and all the murdered woman's acquaintances submitted to examination. But despite the search, and the possession of suoh a clue as the blood-stained peetle, all endeavours to trace the perpetrator of the outrage were unavailing.) ) " ~~