The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-27 00:00:00

THE BERMONDSEY MURDER.

The Sunday papers contain accounts of several captures
having been mad: of p' room whose misfortune it is to re-
'amble Morning, either in reality, or in the opinion of the
over-vigilant persons who have caused them to be taken into
custody.
During Saturday a report was currently circulated that
M mniug had been seen in the neighbourhood of Clerken-
well ; and the following notice was lent to the several police-
rations in London and its suburbs :—" N DiTitlsll of Police.
—Mrs. Whitehorse, of the it duty's Read, Rodney-street,
Peeitonville, reports that a man, supposed to be Manning,
called at her house, and, after taking some refreshment,
ask. d to look at the newspaper. Whilst looking at the
paper. the man was Been to tremble, and appeared agitated,
Mrs. Whitehorn thinks the man was about 40 or 45 years of
age, bloated face. curly hair, whiskers shaved off, large
mouth, and something the matter with his eyes. He was
dressed in • black frock court, CFO% bar trowsers, with •
stripe down the side." Immediately upon the receipt of this
intelligence, men in plain clothes were sent all over the divi-
sion, to make inquiries whether anyone elm had seen the
party alluded to.
At o'clock on Saturday night a communication reached
the Observer office, to the effect that Manning had been
I taken in • beer-shop, the General Picton, in the Cale-
donian-road, Pentonville. It was stated that he was taken
while siting in the parlour over • pint of ale, by two of the
demise polite, who had followed him, so the statement ran,
from Deptford to Greenwich, and from theme to this side
a the water. And it was stated that he refused, at first,
to accompany them ; but that he ia"tirmately proceeded to the
station-house. Ile was described as weary-looking and treati-
ses/shed, and it was said of him that he had exchanged his ale
foe " halt and halt" at the entrance of the police in pursuit of
Idia. Immediately inqui r r was made at Scotland-yard, and at
the stalion.houses in the vicinity, including the head office
station in Bow-street, but at half-past one o'clock no intelli-
gence of his capture had reached either, and the statement to
that cflea was not credited by the authorities.
The same paper states that yesterday morning consider-
able excit. merit existed in the neighbourhood •f the Bag-
nigge Wells road station, where a great crowd had collected
on bearing that a prisoner, supposed to be Manning, had
Men brought there, and was still detained. It was satisfac-
torily ascertained that he was not Manning ; but being in-
toxicated, and having a considerable sum of money on his
person, he was kept in custody at the station.
Some most important information was collected in the
course of yesterday by Burton. That officer felt satisfied,
from the quantity of blood that must have flowed from the
wounds in the head of the deceased, that some of it must
have been spirted over the dress of the murderess; and,
accordingly, he proceeded to examine a quantity of old
apparel at Mr. Bainbridge's, which had been removed
from Miniver-place, and amongst it he found a pled
morning wrapper. Oa examination, he found, par-
ticularly on the cape, large patches of blood, partly
washed out. The deem had been washed in differ-
int parts and rough-dried :it was instantly recognised
by Mr. Massey as an article which Mrs. Manning
used to wear. 'rem a subsequent discovery which he made
it is quite evident that the deceased bad had a violent
atruegle with Manning, for Burton has found a black cloth
waistcoat torn from the left arm across to the breast and then
down to the end, the manner in which it is torn evidently
bespeaks it to be the result of • violent struggle. Tre
.sisteeet Mr. Massey has also identified to be one which
Manning used to wear.