EXTRAORDINARY CONFESSION.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 214, 3 April 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

EXTRAORDINARY CONFESSION.

A FRISONEB who was brought .up on' re' mand at Plymouth Police Court recently on a charge of obtaining £15 by false pretences made an extraordinary statement with regard to two murders he said he had committed. He was charged in the name of Shadwell, with two aliases, but his real name is Henry de Nobielle. His story is, that in Paris, where his father is a physician, he and another young man named Greve*e, were in love with the same young ; lady. Subsequently, they both obtained berths on board a barque af first and second mates respectively. The prisoner says that, fearing Grevee was treacherous, ne shot him and threw him overboard. Shortly afterwards the captain died, and the prisoner brought the barque back to Hull, where he said that both of the missing men had died of yellow fever. He adds that in 1883 he was confined in the Wakefield Asylum for some monts, and this part of his narrative has been confirmed by enquiry on the part of the Plymouth police. After his release he obtained two sovereigns from an asylum official, and returned to Paris, whence he induced the young lady with whom he had been keeping company to return with him to Goole. Here he says he induced her to walk with him into the country, where he shot her and buried her body in a field. The prisoner's statements are being iuquired into.