Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1859-04-02 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

NBAR BOSTON.—A full confession has been made by the man Pickett. against whom, : and another named C:rey, the coroner's jury returned :1 a verdict of %Vaal Murder at the inquest on the body 'of William Stevenson. The deceased resided at Sibsey Northlands, Lincolitsillre, and was found brutally murdered on Thursday morning last week. The particulars will lie best gleaned from the statement of Pickett, euhjoined Myself and Carey left the public-house on the evening in question (Wednesdtv ) between ten and eleven o'clock, and went towards the house of my father, who had gone to bed. We then crossed the drain in a boat of my father's, at the request of Carey, to go to Seeds' for two rabbits he had shot. As we went, Carey drew a large stake up, and told me to do the sante, as we might be attacked by doge, but I would not. When we had got a little distance we overtook Mr Stevenson. Carey said, Let's kill him ; I think he's got some money.' I advised him not, but he went up to hint and bit him on the right side of the head, and knocked him down, and sat on his head, and put his hands in his pocket and took the money out, and then got up and hit hint three or four times with the stick. He then said 'Take hold of his head,' but I would not, and he said ' If you don't, I'll serve you the same.' I then helped him to throw the deceased into the sewer. He picked up his stick The old man stood tip in the dyke, and he went and struck him two or three times more. The old man climbed up the bank on the other bide, and I went round to help him up; but Carey came round th other way, and with a stick knocked him d avn :wain, and struck hint seven or eight times, breaking :1; stick which he used to atoms. The old man tried to get up, but Carey struck him with a hedge stake until he was dead, and then trailed him to the hedge next the sewer dyke, nod said to me, • Take hold of his legs, and we'll throw him into the sewer.' I said ' What for let him be.' Ile then reared him up on his bead on the hedge layers and tumbled hint into the sewer. Ile went on towards Mr Stevenson's house, and I went to Joseph Coates's house. When I got on the hank Carey overtook me, and said, "The old man is dead; he does not stir ii the water at all ; I've got XI 2s, fid., and a handful of papers, and two bags' We went to my father's seven-acre gate, and hid them there under sonic grass on the bank side against the tunnel. We then went on to my father's boat, and crossed the river in it. I said I would go home, end as Carey wanted to go with me I would not take him, and so we went to Sands' house across the fields, as lie was afraid the policeman would see us if we went round by the road. I slept in Sands' oathouse, and Carey in the beast hovel. I awoke early in the morning, and went to him about half-past five. Mr Sands came into the hovel, and tumbled over my foot. We then went to Richardson's (the Ship public. house) and there Carey pulled out two bags he had taken front Stevenson, and the stolen money, and put it in the bag., and also a stone, and threw them all into Riehardson's pit. I afterwards left hint and went lionie.'-011 Wednesday morning Captain Bicknell caused the pit on Richardson's premises to be dragged, and in it was found the two bags and the money belonging to the deceased, as mentioned in the confesbion of Pickett..  CRINOLINE —As the Viscountess de la Gueronniere was recently 'caving her residence, her fiyit became entangled in her dress, and she fell with such violence as to break her arm just above the wrist. Site is going on as favourably as can be expected. CRIME IN New Yona.—From the let of January to the 27th of December, 1858, forty nine mut-ders had been committed in New York, and seventy-nine persons had committed suicide. The number hanged during the same period amounted to one —.Yew York Independent. Ma R. H. Collyer, M.D., informs the editor of the Star. that he has discovered a ci cap process of making paper from straw and flax waste. Paper which now costs lid. to 7d. per lb., he says, can by his new process be made at 4d., including duty, and afford a greater ',refit to the manufacturer.