Confession of a Thug.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1659, 16 March 1886, Page 4

Confession of a Thug.

The following is from a London Daper of recent date :— George Herbert Thackray, alias King, who was arrested at Grritnsby on a ,chars:e- of vagrancy, and who afterwards stated that he murdered a clerk m St. Mary's walk, Islington, on New Year's Eve, 1884, has since made tbe following confession :' . '.' On New Year's JSve, 1884, 1 and a man named Mick Sullivan were drinking m the Three 1 Nags publichouse, Whitechapel road, when a clerk canae m and began talking about the amount of money m his possession. ■•■-■ Sullivan said we wbx^ld have the money, so we dodged him about till after midnight. He bade a companion goodbye;undeiv;the.;tre;es m St. Mary.'s. walki Islington, and then! pounced upon him, put a handkerchief round his neck and strangled him. We dragged, him up the enhankmeht : and ; threw him into the Reservoir, after robbing him of jJSO* We rook his but .': .' Jif te'myard lost it. After that I went to my lodgings at 72, St. Dunstau's row, Burdett road, Islington., . l.got J£2o as my share of the 4550. We drugged tlie body through a hedge befojre ,tiirqwing it into tlie reservoir, and we i'letfc the liaridkerchief ronnd his neck,"