MURDEROUS LOVE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3727, 4 February 1891, Page 2

MURDEROUS LOVE.

A Tragrio Afiair.

Melbourne, January ,27. A young woman named Stella Louisa Marks was murdered in Darling Gardens at midnight on Sunday by her lover Wilson), who cut her throat with a razor. The two were engaged, but Misß Marks had p- second admirer, and Wilson had seen them out walking the night before. After the murder Wilson went to the residence of his brother- v in-law, who teaches in a State school, but before reaching home he made a feeble attempt to cut his throat, confessed his orhne and gave 4 himself up to the police. On the way to the lock-up the accused, instead of being overwhelmed by the nature of his crime, attempted a justification of it on what appeared to him to be adequate ground for his action. "She admitted to me," said the prisoner, "that she had met another man, by appointment, on the very eve of our marriage. I was mad with ' jealousy, and I killed her. She had fl no right to treat mo thus. The clothes she is wearing I bought her. I had kept her, and I deservod to have been better treated than this." He had no regret to express except for the disgrace his own action might possibly reflect upon his relatives. The deceased, by her action, had, he said, merited her fate, and he was prepared to undergo the punishment which law awarded. In this stoical frame of mind accused recited the details of the crime, from which it seems evident that it had long been reflected upon and was finally executed with the feeling that it was an act of justice to himself. The girl's mother, who carries on the business of a pawnbroker, received a telegram from a friend in Melbourne stating that her daughter had been murdered, but Mrs Marks, knowing her daughter was to be married shortly, in the hurried reading of the message mistook the word " murdered" for "married," and did not further trouble about the matter. Subsequently she received a telegram from another source stating that great trouble had arisen in the family, and that caused the mother to again read the first message and find that her daughter had been murdered. Before the Court, Wilson presented a sickly appear-, ance, and blood spots were notioeablo ' upon his clothes, while th ore was a large blood stain on the baok of his ; left hand. He was remanded. During the time he remained in Court he kept his eyes fixed on the floor, with a look of helpless despair. When he was taken back tdilie cells Sergoant Waters tried to enter into conversation with Wilson, but" he maintained a sullen silence. Whilst detained in the cell prisoner was asked the motive for his deed, and in reply asked, "Have you ever loved a girl and found her deceitful ? That's my answer." He was next aßked why ho had a razor in his pookot, "1 can't tell you. I intended to commit suicide. I'll say no more." When asked furthor questions, ho said, " I have told you sufficient," •» and refused to say any more. The wound on the prisoner's throat was of a very slight nature.