The Sun.
London, England, 1834-08-13 00:00:00

was it from the confederacy of assassins, or out of his own
pocket ?" Ere the present week closes it is anticipated that
six or seven others will be taken into custody. Schofield was
apprehended at his own house by Mr. J. Barrett, the deputy
constable of Stockport ; and when taken he denied all know-
ledge of the convicts, or the witness Mosley. He was lodged
in the Stockport New Bailey, and immediately after the trial
at Chester, the accomplice Mosley was conveyed to Stockport,
to confront and identify the prisoner as the man Schofield or
Stansfield, who was arraigned with them for the murder, and
paid the money for its committal. It was expected that an
examination of the prisoner would have taken place to-day
before the Magistrates, and the Court-house was consequently
crowded to excess, but no public investigation was entered into.
The Magistrates, however, Sir Salisbury Humphreys, Capt.
Clarke, and Mr. Simpson, had the witness conveyed to the
gaol, where Schofield was confined, when the latter was con-
fronted with the witness, who, in the same decided manner
that he evinced in giving evidence at the trial, positively swore
to the prisoner as the man. The prisoner still strenuously de-
nied all knowledge of the transaction, and he was remanded
until Wednesday next, by which time it is anticipated others
will be in custody, when a through examination will be gone
into. There appears no want of money in the cause ; and Mr.
Vaughan, an eminent solicitor of Stockport, has been retained
for the defence. We have taken some pains to ascertain the
feelings of the unionists towards the convicts, and, singular as
it may appear, notwithstanding the clear corroboration of the
accomplice at the trial, and, as the Learned Judge observed,
by unimpeachable witnesses, and the similarity of the confes-
sion of Garside in Derby gaol, with the evidence given by the
accomplice, the majority of the working classes connected with
the unions believe she convicts innocent. Both the malefac-
tor's refuse to make any confession, and positively deny that
Schofield is guilty ; but it is currently rumoured in
this and the neighbouring towns, that intimation was given to
the convicts before the trial, that if, in the event of their being
found guilty, they kept their own counsel, and did not impli-
cate others, that their wives and families would be supported by
the unions. This, of course, is only rumour, and it is to be
hoped that the Magistrates will not object to the proceedings of
the examination being made public, as by that means unfounded
statements will not obtain insertion in the newspapers to the
prejudice of the accused parties. Mr. Chorlton, the solicitor,
of Hyde, who prosecuted the perpetrators of the murder, and
by whose indefatigable exertions in obtaining evidence the
conviction was secured, is again retained by the family of the
murdered gentleman to further elucidate the facts as connected
with this abominable transaction—a transaction which, for cold-
blooded atrocity, was never surpassed by the ruffianly bravo
of Italy, and certainly not equalled in the annalo of crime in
this country ; for, before this shocking, and, to Englishmen,
humiliating disclosure, it was never suspected that there
were wretches to be found in England who, for the sake
of money, could be hired to murder a fellow-creature whom
they never saw, nor against whom, by the acknowledgment
of both Garside and the witness Mosley, they did not enter-
tain the least malice.