The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1881-12-02 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

EXTRAORDINARY CONFESSIONS OF THE  CONVICT LEFROY.  Lefroy made startling disclosures on Saturday morning. Clariday he was considerably agitated, and towards nit .t his conduct became so violent mat he had to be watched all night. ihe warders say he walked up and down his cell like a madman, gesticulating, morning, and roving in a dreadful manner. E,rly on Saturday morning he sent for the cnaplein and made a tuil contession, not oniy as to the murder of Mr. Gold, but also us to the murder of Lieutenant R mar, who, it will remembered, wan found dead outside WS quarters in Chatham Ile uric ks in February lest. He stet id, moreover, that he shot Lieutenant Roper in consequence of a quarrel they Owl as to &led Violet Cameron, an aetrean. Letroy's relations have already affirmed that ode of Lefruy's hallucinations was that he was married to Miee Cameron, whose portrait he used to carry about with hiuo, and he now says he shot Lieut. Rop or because he said something slightingly of her. There has been a suspicion for some time amongst Lefroy'e friends that Mr. Gold was not his only victim, for severe' reesons, amongst which are the finding by toe Clay Ons of bloods' iined clothes in Lefroy'e room and his extraordinary behaviour on more than one occasion. The clothes, however, have uuturtunately been burnt, and Cannot be produced tueretore to corroborote his present statement. The declaration that he murdered Lieut. Roper is borne out by the te.it. that on the day alter Lieut. Roper's body was found Leith), suddenly turned up at his sister's (Mrs. Brickweod's) house at isouthend, and remained in hiding there for some days. Oa receiving his steadier star unapt, Mr. Cole, the chaplain, immediately sent to London to lay it bolero the dirue Secret try, but Sir W. Harcourt had loft for Derby, and the Permanent Secretary appeared itichued to attach inuen importatme to it. The murder of Lieutenant Roper is also corroborated by the testimony of the Claytons, woo say they noticed at the tune ot the murder lie was collate. ay travelung up aud down the Loudon, Chatham, end Dover due to and from Chatham and Sitt,ngbourtie. Another extraordinary matter trlt is to DO Munn ihqutred into is a lettor received by the Governor of Lvme. Gaul to the effect that a relative of the writer's has been missing for some considerable time, and suepicien had been awakened that he wee murdered by Letruy. One of the two couvicts who occupied toe same cull with Letroy at Lewes has boeu making ex .raurdluai y inquiries amongst toe family of the missing man which he says he is doing at tun instigation of the crionnet huneett. When Mrs. Brickwood saw her brother on Saturday afternoon ho reath rmed e'l he had said, to the chaplaiu, and said that ire had given theSchaplain a shock that morning. Ile &leo said he did not trifik he would be hanged, but wondered wnetter they would put him into a lunatic asylum. tie f ',duet remarked that sometimes he felt like two diderent people, His sieter asked tins why he had not made at ul contusion of all this before, and Lefroy replied that he had thought there was some hop/ lot him, and Ott did net care therefore to make any one his confidant; but now that he wee on the point of execution there wel no UN keeping the matter secret any longer. EXECUTION OF LEFROY, SCENE AT THE SCAk'