The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-04-13 00:00:00

C¢PTUAE QV THE SUPPOSED MURDERER.

At half-past eleven o'clock on Monday forenoon the
engineer and brakeman on the Philadelphia train, coining
into Jersey city, reported that, as they crossed the
Hackensack Bridge, a man had been seen making for a
piece of woods, and, from his appearance, they believed
he was the Chinaman belonging to the Spray, who was
picked up from a yawl boat at Barnegat, and who
escaped from Captain Wood on Saturday morning at
Jersey city.

Two Jersey city officers started out in pursuit, and an
hour later returned for further assistance. Some eight
officers then went out, but before they arrived in the
vicinity where the man was supposed to be lurking, the
Chinaman had been taken into custody by John Sanford,
Henry Wilson, William Jacobus, and John Douglass,
who are engaged at work on the railroad bridge.

ACCOUNT OF Tlir ARREST.
Their account of the arrest is as follows :—At noon,
while the above-named persons were at dinner, except
young Jacobus, a man attempted to cross the railroad
bridge, when Jacobus turned him off, as it was against
the rules. After he was gone, Jacobus went into the
house ; and mentioning the fact that a man had attempted
to cross the bridge, remarked that he believed from his
appearance that he was Jackalow, the Chinaman of
whom they had read in the morning. Wilson said that
he believed 51,000 reward had been offered for his arrest;
when the four men concluded to go in pnrsnit as soon as
they had laid out work for the hands to attend to during
their absence. With spyglass they could see a man
lurking in the cedars about half-a-mile distant, and appa-
rently eiadeavouring to make for the plank road unobserved.
Jacobus and Douglass started in that direction, while
Sanford and Wilson went to Newark on the cars, hired
a horse, and drove up the road in order to intercept the
man.

They returned, however, without having accomplished
their object, and while standing at the plank bridga
tollgate, Jackalow came up the road to cross the bridge,
the men appearing not to notice him. As he was in
the act of paying the toll, one of the men
asked, hint he was not the man that at-
tempted to cross the railroad bridge. He replied
that he did. They then Asked him whuf
ue anu ne rephect taut he was an East India-
man. Becoming satisfied from his conversation and
dress that he was the man, they told him that lke must
go with them. One of the men, whAe behind him,
called out "Jackalow," when the prisoner whirled
round suddenly, but immediately afterwards denied that
that has his name. The men then stopped a train of
cars, and brought their prisoner to Jersey-street about
four o'clock,

THE SEARCH.

At the depot, Assistant-Superintendent Woodruff
searched the prisoner, and found in the legs and seat
of his pantaloons a bag containing $24 11e, oue stocking
containing $44 lie, and a canvas bag in which was
$324 5Qc in gold and fifty cents in silver. All the
money was in specie, and it may be readily imagined
that Jackalow found locomotion rather difficult under
the circumstances.

THE EXAMINATION.

The prisoner was then taken to the pity prison,
followed by a great crowd of people, anxious to get a
look at him. The prisoner was at once conveyed to the
cells and locked up. As the news spread, people came
flocking from all di;ections, completely filling the station
house, 411 d blacking the streets around it.
Shortly after five o'clock the prisoner was taken
before Recorder Bedford, handcuffed, when Mr. Sand-
ford made a formal complaint, charging Jackalow with
the murder of Captain Leete and his brother on the
high seas, while on board the sloop Spray.
The Recorder then asked tho accursed the following
questions :

Q. What is your same ?
A. Sam Patch. (Laughter.)

Q. Where do you belong ?
A. I belong to sloop Spray, of Guilford. Two
week ago Captain Leete, brother and me, Sam Patch;
another sloop come and struck and capsized us; both
overboard; me down below.

Recorder—That will do. That's enough.
Sam Patch—Tell you more bimeby, when we go up
there.

The prisoner was then committed to the cells to await
the action of the United States authorities,

STATEMENT OF THE MURDERER.

Subsequently our reporter visited the prisoner in. the.
cells, when he willingly gave the following disjointed
statement :

" Sailed in sloop Spray, of Guilford, Captain Leete
and brother and me as cook ; going after oysters. At
Barnegat, on Wednesday last, at Barnegat, sloop struck
and capsised us; captain and brother went overboard in
water and drowned. I was down below cooking. Me get in
small boat, and about two hours there, when sehootter took
me off; the captain's name Webb. Saturday we came to 4- er-
to-day started to come
sey City. I went ashore. Me Q1:038 the river to Newark.
some mots, Saturday night got no, house, and slept out doors. Sub_
day night I stayed 0 Newark,
back, and went in The
money ($396 84) was my wages; worked for Captain
the woods to get
Leete four years, for $3O a month, The men took me
at the bridge. My name is Sam Patch, American name
Jack Lowe ; have been in this country six years, one
year I sold segars in New York, one year was on a man-
of-war ship (Mississippi), as cook and anything. Last
four years was on the sloop with Captain Leete. I am
thirty-nine years of age, and am a native of an island in
the China sea. Do not know what they brought n here
for, unless it was for taking nuts in the woods.
The prisoner having previously Ileitis detected i,n
attempting to slip hill lilandctiffa; Marahal Ellis took

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