THE MONTE CARLO TRAGEDY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8546, 30 September 1907, Page 5

THE MONTE CARLO TRAGEDY.

GOOLD MAKES A FRESH CONFESSION. MONTE CARLO, Sept, 27. Goold, who, with his wife, is unfder arrest for the murder of Mrs Levin, a Swiss, has made a fresh confession, one of several. He now declares that he and Mrs Goold were without resources, and determined to rob some one. He says there was no intention to kill Mrs Levin. The idea was merely to stun and then rob her. With a kitchen pestle he tried to fell the woman, but she showed an unexpected resistance, and this led him to stab her. On Mrs Goold being confronted with the confession of her husband, she declared that she had nothing to say in reply, and then fainted. i

HOW THE CRIME WAS COMMITTED. Received September 29, 4.22 p.m. MONTE CARLO, September 28. Goold has confessed that he waited in the kitchen with a pestle while his wife and Mrs Levin were having liqueur. His wife called to him, and he entered behind Mrs Levin and struck her on the head, knocking off her wig the first blow. At the second blow she rose and cried, "Murder!" and "Thief!" At the third blow she rushed towards the window, but his wife put her hand over Mrs Levin's mouth to stifle the cries. He then stabbed Mrs Levin from behind with the big blade of a knife. She reeled against the wall. She received a second stab in the abdomen. He did not use the small blade of the knife, and his wife must have struck the second blow.

Asked if she had anything to say regarding her husband's confession, Mrs Goold replied, "Nothing." She fainted when she was told to sign the deposition.