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Show Confession of Peace, tiir English Eng-lish Murderer. Peace, the English Eng-lish murderer, made what ia called a "confession" shortly bufore ho was hanged. "Of course I do not deny," ho saya, "that I took Mr. Dyson'B life, as it turned out, but I did not go there wilti tho intention of doing it." Indeed "it was as unintentional a thing as ever was done." It had not happened, he says, if he had not; been interfered with. In shooting him he did not intend to murder him. Tho first shot wae fired "wide at him, to frighten him, and "I assure you I purposely fired wide." At the second ''shot he had no intention of killing him," although al-though it was fired in "a life and death slrugcje, sir." Peace seems to have bad a way of "firing wido" at people. In the case of the policeman police-man murdered at Manchester, he also "fired wide at him, purposely to frighten him." He has nover knowingly know-ingly or willingly "hurt a living creature," aud "this is why I tell you 1 fired wide at him." A sen file ensued. Peace could not take a careful aim, as ho wished to do, and the eecond ball miesing Iho policeman's arm, entered his breast and he fell. That in the end he should have to be banged for taking life, "they very thing I waa bo anxi-' anxi-' oua to avoid, does," he coolly adde, "seem odd." In spite of the great consideration he has shown for other men'a lives in "firing wide at tbem," and bid dislike to harm any human creature, ho is "exceedingly grieved and repentant for all my puit life," and if he could undo what be bas done, or make aiopnds for it, "I would," he Bays, "aufler my body, as I now Bland, to be cut in pieces inch by inch." |