Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1878-06-29 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

EXAMINER-SATITRD&Y, JUNFI 29, 1878.  EXTRAORDINARY CONFEERION.  The Pioneer of Calcutta publishes a remarkable confession by a prisoner named Maitre, at the Luck. now Gaol, who lately procured the escape of a fellowprisoner by means of a forged release-warrant. In effect it is as follows : "In June, 1868, when in Bombay with the 3rd Punjab Muleteer Corps, after his return from Abyssinia, I made the acquaintance of a young , woman, a European, disguised as a Mahomedan. ' She told me that she had been carried off from Delhi during the mutiny by a native merchant, and .had finally been abandoned at Bombay. She told me her real name was Wilhelmina Rose. In September, 1868, when my regiment was ordered to Meehan, this woman accompanied me. We went by steamer to Kurrachee, and by flotilla l from thence to Moulton. At Meehan the corps was disbanded. I then went to Lahore, and obtained employment in the D.P.W. Controller's Office in March, 1869. We remained at Lahore until July, 1869, when I resigned my appointment, and we found our way back to Bombay. At Bombay we put up in the Byculla Hotel. We lived upstairs, and occupied two rooms. Suspecting Withelmina of infidelity, I watched her, and one day caught her with a visitor. A fit of jeaSousy seised me, and I determined to get rid of her. One evening, when sitting in our room as usual about nine p.m., drinking some brandy and water, I poisoned her. I mixed a drahm of aqua Itsuro.cerani and ten to fifteen grains of strychnine in her cup, and this I gave her to drink in a tumbler one third full of brandy and water. Nothing suspecting, she drank the brandy and water at one draught and immediately retired to bed. I made myself drunk, and lay down and slept on the Bora in the sitting room. The next morning I found the -woman dead. I went to the market and purchased a large wooden chest made of mango wood for bra. This I brought back on the top of a gharry to the hotel, and had it taken up to my sitting-room. When I was alone I placed alvenSleguao'.l body into this chest and fastened .down the box. I then went to breakfast, and had the box re- , placed on the sherry. After breakfast I drove to the Berle Bunder, hired a boat, and was rowed out of the harbour. Four native boatmen rowed the boat. I bribed the boatmen with 25re. each-100 the four— threw the chest into the sea, returned to the hotel, sold off all Wilhelmina's things in the market, and left for Calcutta by a butt of the British India Steam Navigation Company. This was in the month of September, 1869. I make this confeesion so as to rid my conscience of a crime that has haunted me since the day I committed it." The magistrates at Luck. now are making inquiries to find out the truth of the story. It does not absolutely follow that Maitre has done what he says. He already expects transportation for life for various little matters in which he has been engaged. He would net fear hanging on account of a murder committed a long time ago, and made the subject of it spontaneous confession. But he is a very ingenious person, and may think that if he were sent to Bombay to be tried for the murder something might turn up to give him a chance of getting free.  %Oen