The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-19 00:00:00

TILE ESCAPi24. AND DETECTION
' OF GOOD;I
(From our Third. Edition of last night.)
The following are important particulars relating to
the escape and the detention of Good? on the correctneos of
which the public may implicitly rely. It appears that after
sleeping in the room at South-street, Manchester-square, on
'Wednesday night, he went on Thursday morning t o visit
his wife, as already stated, at the east end of the. town.
After seeing his wife he proceeded to the Borougis, where
he purohased at a clothes shop, which is well-known, the
dress of a bricklayer's labourer, in which he appeared at
the bar of the Police Court yesterday morniog. Par numerous
reasons this is the most perfect disguise the meal could have
assumed. As an Millman he Might readily bave passed for a
labourer out of employment ; but besides this he hes, it seems,
previously worked in the trade, and is quite conversant with its
peculiar phraseology. It is believed that he exchanged his
dress at a lodging-house, in which be slept on the Friday night.
On Saturday evening, finding the pursuit of the police growing
rather hot, he determined on leaving London. He took the
Seven Oaks road,, atzd after walking some distance past the
Bricklayers' Arms, he got a lift in a cart with two persons. It
do s not appear that these individuals were at all accomplices
in his escape, inasmuch as ho went entirely unrecognised by
them. On entering the town of Seven Oaks he left the cart,
and separated from the party. He then took a field read,
avoiding the turnpike, and made for Tunbridge. He reached
this place .n safety. He went to a public-house where he pro-
cured a lodging for the night, and the next evening, under the
name of James Connor, he applied for and procured the employ-
=eat 'in the occupation of which he was arrested, as stated in
another part of our paper.
We understand that Good has said that had it not been for
his accidental meeting with the discharged policeman of the
V division, it:was his intention to have left his employment,
and after again changing ,his disguise, to have made for another
part of the country. He expresses a strong conviction tha; by
this means he should 'have been enabled to have altogether
eluded the vigilance of the police force. Good is said greatly
to enjoy the idea of locking the policeman in the stable, and thus
making a clean way for his escape. His defence is as exeellent as
every other part of his scheme. He simply declares that he knows
nothing of the body, and that he was as much surprised as any
one could be on hearing that such a thing was found on the
preniises. Altogether Good is said to be one of the most acute
and artful of any offender the police have for some time pa
bad to deal with. He is, to use an expressive though vulgar
term, « up to every thing," and it is said to be rare that a man
so accomplished in the art of crime has for so short a period
evaded justice. From this it will be seen that the police, to
whom so much blame has been attached, are after all anything
but culpable, and that in the present instance the attributions
of want of energy and ability are at least unjust and unwar-
ranted. The means taken to evade justice were most artfully
elesigned and most skilfully worked out. The officers employed,
iastead of exhibiting any negligence, seem to have been most
vigilant and active, and effected their object in a much shorter
space of time than might, under such circumstances, have been
anticipated.

Good on his way up from Maidstone on Sunday preserved the
strictest silence; not a word escaped his lips. After he was
lodged in the police-station, however, his demeanour was very
different. He became greatly excited, and frtquently fell on
Isis knees, and put hires° fin the attitude of prayer. He is
said tr) have muttered a great deal, and, as far as could br
judged, in a foreign tongue. His language, however, was not
Irish. Good, although an illiterate man, is said to speak
French, Italian, and other languages very fluently, having
ricked up a perfect knowledge of them during a residence
abroad. A very strong feeling was exhibited by the people
-upon the line of road from Maidstone to London. [he popula-
tion turned out on every side, and assailed the supposed mur-
derer with groans, hootings, and missiles. The windows of the
post chaise were broken; and at one time it was feared that the
enraged multitude would have tore the carrisge to pieces, in
order to get at the man they would have made their victim.
It was at last deemed necessary to have the vehicle guarded by
a body of mounted officers, on whom was at once enjoined the
dillies of keeping the prisoner in safe custody and protecting
him from the mob.

One other piece of information which we have to add will,
no doubt, excite feelings of regret. It is, we believe, the strong
impression of the first police magistrates in London, as also of
many eminent lawyers, that Good cannot under any circum-
stances be arraigned on an indictment for murder ; and, indeed,
that no legal ingenuity can devise a way iu which, on the evidence
already collected, he can be tried upon such a charge. In addi-
tion to the facts that no murder can be brought home to Gocd,
on the evidence as at present shaped, a great difficulty also
occurs from the circumstance that an indictment for murder must
eoninin, as an essential ingredient, seine allegations to he sup-
ported by proof. as o:attic way in which the murder was committed.
Now, an the face of this case. it is clear that little short of
a miracle can bring to light any such fact. The murderer
has hi s.self destroyed all prof of the way in which his crime
was committed. No one can tell whether the woman was
killed by a blow en the head, by the cutting of her throat, ar
Uv what other means. Certain/3, if it should prove that this
view of the case holds good, it will ba aut. of the most remark-
able instances ever known of the entire superseding of every
mural conviction by the necessity for legal testimony.

CONDUCT OF THE PRISONER IN THE BOW-

STREET CELL.

On Snit-lay night, shortly after.the prisoner was placed in ore
of the cells at the station in. Bow-street, he had a pint of coffee
and three thick slices of bread and butter brought to him, at
his oars request. which he ate and drarik with an apparently
keen appetite ; and during the night he talked a great deal witfi
the constables who were oppninted to sit up with hint.
lie is remarkably cool and indifferent in his behaviour, and pro-
fes•cs utter innocence of any crime, althoueh he admits that ap-
pearances are "rather -black against him." The constables
autioned hint against saying, anything to them Which he (lid
no:. wish repeated; but, he ccinianued to talk' freely through
the night, and even speke 'in a light manner of havnig
locked the police-constable Gardiner, and the two lads,
iu the stable at Putney, appearing to think the matter a re-
markably good joke. He ,sdmits that he was in company wi;h
.lase Goon tne Sunday night, and that he took her with bins
to his insster's stables,-Putney Park-lane • but says he
knows nothing. as to what became of her after that. Ile also
told the einnisl4(sa that when be ran away from Putney Park-
Line, he came directly to London, and, on arriving
opposite the Spetted in the Strand, to,ik a eaz.,
and proceeded to Whitechapet, and thence went to Us
houe ; arwr which he pledged the articles which were
fours t at the taw ok er in Brick-lane,
.20out three o'clock yesterday morning he beearae.rather bea,vy,
:sod fell off to sleep. Ile remained sleeping until shortly after
tier, when he woke up, and had breakfast—namely, a pint of
coff,e and broad and butter, a s ors the overnight..
The greatest curiosity was reaeilested. by the publics to get a
sight of the culprit, and previously to the hour of his examina-
tom, numbers of persons assembled opposite the:station in Bow-
street, in hopes of getting a sight of him as he was taken
theme over to rise Court
.on the other side of the street.
' About half past nine
.Inspector I;usain arrived at the station-
house iii 13ow-street, wita the NS itncsJes who were examined at
the inquest. . .

EXAMINATION OF GOOD'S ALLEGED WIFE,

AND THE MAN GAMBLE.

At- hall-patt three o'clock yesterday afternoon Richard Gam-
ble aod Mary Good, who has recently been known, to the rub-
le as •' 01;1 Molly Good," were placed bertire Mr. Hall, charged
µith baring in their possession certain articles the property of
Jane *Times, who was murdered at Putney Park-lane. -

Air. Heiwood, Clerk to the Solicitor of the Treasury, con-
du et et the case for the prOseention.
Police-sergeant Thornton, 4 E, stated that he had been em-
ployed to watch the prisoners, the premises of Airs. Good being
in Flower and bean-street,:Spitalfieldi, and Gamble's at No. 2,
'findale's-buildings, Gray's inn-road. He had seen the pri-
soner Gamble go on several occasions to the house of Mrs. Good,
and remain there'soine' time. He had also seen him leave the
hone of the woman Good, accompanied by her, and return
again with her. On one occasion he saw Gamble come out of
Airs. Good's house with a bundle, which he took to his own
place. On Saturday he went to Gamble's lodgings with Inspector
1-'iarce, and in the front room second floor, he found the three
cotton gowns produced, hid under the bed. He searched the
lo_lgings of the prisoner Good yesterday afternoon, and found
a piece of lilac silk wrapped up in a pillow-case, as also a
Mack cloth bag, containing a purse, with 3s. 10d. in it, two
black mitts, three napkins, a towel, two dinner knives and
forts, and a small knife, a piece of black glazed calico, and two
pairs tit' stockings.
Inspector Pearce, or. the A division, deposed that he had
also watched the prisoners, especially the male prisoner. He
had followed him to Tooley-greet---from thence to the resi-
dence of Aiary Good, wl,ere he stayed half an hour. On
Saturday everinr, he met the prisoner in Gray's Inn-lane. He
asked him " It he had received a parcel from Good?" and he
said '• He had not." He left him in the care of a constable
whilst ho went to his lodging, and upon searching he found
two shirts (produced, one marked S. Perry). Prisoner said
they had been given him by a woman named Mary Good. He
also sa d he had a bundle as well from the same person.

May Arnie Clarke, of No. 18, South-street, Manchester.
square, identified the piece of blue silk produced as belonging► to
Jane Jones, and part of the piece which she had made the bon-
net from. She also said that the gowns produced were of the
same pattern and make as some she had seen Jane Jones wear.
Edward Pritchett, of I\ o. 3, Edward's-place, Hoxtorn said
he knew the two prisoners. and was employed to watch them;
lie raw hem on Thursday last at the George and Guy, Fashion-
st, eet, Si,italfields. He heard the female prisoner say to the
male pri.oner, " The last night I saw poor Dan he said I am
afraid I shalt be taken," but he said, " 1 shall keep out of the
way as long as I can." Gamble said, " Hold your tongue, leave
it tome, he'll never be taken."

AlaryAnne Grayson, of No. 4, Flower and Dean-street, said
the female prisoner, Good, lodged with her. Gamble had been
there three times. A man, whom Good represented as her
busliaod, came at seven o'clock on the morning of Thursday
week. She didn't see him with any bundle.
Mr. HALL, the Magistrate, here observed that he did not
see that a case of robbery could be made out against the pri-
niers. If they were at all implicated, it was for being acces-
sories after the fact of the murder. He should, therefore,
commit them both till Thursday next, when they would be
brought up with the prisoner, Daniel Good.--The prisoners
'sere then removed in custody.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
BAIL COURT, April 18.
(Sitflugg at Nisi,Prius, before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.)

THOMPfteN V. WOODS AND 11OFFMAN.
This was an action brought against the defendants for an un-
reasonable distress. The plaintiff was a licensed victualler liv-
ing at Bermondsey, and a distress was put in upon his goods on
the 2d of November by Mr. Hoffman, the agent of Mrs.
Woods, the landlady of the plaintiff. The 'plaintiff was
not disturbed in the possession of his goods, but they
were sold on the 25th of November to a person
named Trig, for the amount of the distress, namely,
18/. Trig sold the goods afterwards to a solicitor named
Gillam for 2,51. Two surveyors were, however, called in by the
plaintiff, who valued the goods at between 601. and 701. The
question for the Jury therefore to decide, was between the fact
of the goods being sold for 181., and the value put upon them
by the surveyors.
'l' he Jury, without leaving the box, brought in a verdict of
One Farthing Damages,

His LORD;IIIP refused to certify for the costs.
Connsel for the plaintiff, .Messrs. Bell and Keating; for the
defendaV, Mr. Kelly.
The Coen then adjourned till eleven o'clock to-morrow.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
ATTEMPTING TO PICK POCKETS AT THE ITALIAN OPERA
Hoes E. —A very fashionably-dressed young man, who gave
the name of Thomas Morgan, but who is known by the police
as one of the " Swell Mob pickpockets," infesting the race-
coures and places of public amusement generally, was placed
at the bar, charged under the following circumstances.
I'olioe constable No. 78 of the A division stated that about
12 o'clock on Saturday night, just at the breaking up of the
Opera, he observed the prisoner walking arm and arm with
two other very fashionably-dressed young men, under the
Coloria:;1 in Cliarles-street, and knowing them, from having
seen them at different races, he watched themt and saw
the prisoner at tempt several gentlemen's "pockets as they were
.entering their carriages opposite to the pit entrance, his com-
panions covering him as much as they possibly could from
observation.. They afterwards proceeded into Waterloo-place,
and wit** then seued the prisoner, upon which his comps-
nroxis ran4ff.
Serges, Waller, No. 16 of the C division, identified the
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