The convict Lipeki was hanged at Newgate on Monday, an
immense crowd waiting outside to see the black flag hoisted. On Saturday last, Mr. Matthews held a conference at the Home Office, Mr. Justice Stephen being present, at which it was finally decided that the evidence adduced by Lipaki's solicitor was not sufficient to warrant the grant of a further reprieve. On Lipeki's learning that there was no longer any hope that the execution would not take place, he made a full confession of his guilt, which he signed in the usual manner in the presence of the Governor of the prison. The confession states that theft was the only motive for the crime. Lipeki explains the curious feet of his insensibility by saying that be fainted from fright at the notion of discovery. He further solemnly declares "that Rosenbloom and Schramm know nothing whatever of the crime of which I am guilty, and I alone." We have commented sufficiently elsewhere on the agitation conducted in Parliament and in the Press in favour of the murderer. The confession
shows, among other things, how unwise it is to make a system of discrediting convictions upon circumstantial evidence.
