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MURDER AT WATERDOWN
Girl Shot Dead
[People’s Press. 25 September 1900]
A cold-blooded murder was committed in the village of Waterdown about 9.15 Sunday evening, when a young lady named Griffen of Dundas was shot by one of two men who are present unknown. Miss Griffen was riding in a buggy with a young man, George Arthur Pearson, a butcher, of Hamilton. When the shooting occurred the pair having been at Carlisle, were on their way to the city and were driving through Waterdown, when the two men in a rig drove up behind them. The two men drove past Mr. Pearson and Miss Griffen, and as they did so one of them deliberately pointed a revolver at the young man and woman and fired. Two cartridges were emptied from the revolver in rapid succession, and Miss Griffen fell from the rig dead. Her companion escaped injury. In the confusion that followed the terrible deed his horse, which was from a Hamilton livery, got away and was stopped at Anderson’s hotel, just beyond the city limits. Coroner McGregor of Waterdown was notified, and he arranged to hold an inquest. The city police were telephoned to and were informed that the horse the murders were driving was a tall animal. Efforts were at once made to capture the men. Acting Chief Prentice is busy on the case. At midnight the police were still in the dark as to the murderers or the motive of the crime. It was surmised that it was prompted by jealousy.
Pearson Confesses
Pearson, the young man who was with Miss Griffen, has confessed that he was himself her murderer.
Pearson said: “I kissed her good-by, then shot her dead, but the reason no one will ever know.”
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