The Express.
London, England, 1855-03-28 00:00:00

CONFESSION OF A MURDERER.

On Monday Henry Ifield wan fully committed for
trial by the Tunbridge bench, charged with obtaining a
cheek for 161. from a lady named Deaeon, at If able‘a,
Tunbridge. As it was late before the examination ter.
mutated, Bold was placed in the leek-rip for the night, pee.
parstory to his being taken to Maidstone. Whilst there he
endeavoured to hang himself with a piece of stuff picked
by him from the rug famished to prisonen in the loelocp.
Fortnuately Goddard went in in time to prevent his aeons.
pushing his end, and a surgeon having been seat for, he
soon recovered. Goddard then obtained ataistanos, and they
sat up with him all night, and during the night he made the
'following horrible confession. lie said that he had mur-
dered his first wife, about twenty years ago, at Dartford,
and that be dragged the body to a small archway near Mr.
, Hall's pewder-mills there, and that upon a sort of shelf
in the archway he had lett it. That his Ant wife's nuns
wee Bophis Decker, a captain's widow, and was
of about 7001., which sum be received the day arertlisill
marriage, and he very soon made off with it. That they
were married at Brighton by the Rev. Dr. Wagner. That he
sold a gold chronometer which belonged to his wife's first
husband for 401. to a Mr. Levy, at Lewes. He said he
never liked his wife, and only married her for her money,•
that when it was gone they were staying at Dartford, and
we night, after he had been drinking, his wife followed
him without her bonnet; that he struck her with a silver.
headed ems (which was loaded), when she fell dews;
that he afterwards cut her throat with a Spanish leads,
which he threw' into the river at Dartford, and disposed of
her body in the manner already stated. He sail that shoat
a twelvemonth ago be visited the spot to see if the body wee
still there ; that there were bones there, bat all the Bah
was gone. Re thought he would remove the bones into
the water and took hold of one of the fingers, when use
shall moved, which frightened him and he ran away. Bar
said hie wife had hanated him ever since, and be wished to
be hanged for it. So singular an account naturally elated
the minority of Goddard, who went to Dartford, and there
found an archway with shelves or ledges in it precisely se
the prisoner had stated, and In the exact situation pointed
out. A person was sent up the archway, but:nothing was
found except some pieces of chalk. The police there us
actively engaged in searching after some traces of the per-
son thus stated to have been so brutally murdered. At
present there is but the testimony of this wretched man es
rely upon.—South Eastern Gazette.

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