The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-18 00:00:00

rtiE ROEHAMPTON MURDER.
CAPTURE OF GOOD.
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At a lat. hour on Saturday ni7.lit-, Mr.Humphric‘,, an in-
-;rector of police on the Dover Railroad, art iced at the Green
jell Police station from Tonbridge, and communicated to Mr.
daleiieu, the Superintendent of the Ft division, the intern-
;enee that in the course of the morning he had apprehended r
lan answering, in every particular, the description given of
..Daniel Good in the Hue and Cry, and in the Government
proclamations, and whom subsequent circumstances had led
im to believe was the murderer. It appears, that about nine
J'e:ork in the morning of Saturday, Humphries received infor-
nation that.. a man, employed as a bricklayer's Lbonrer on
acme new buildings. adjacent, but not belonging to the line,
gad caned suspicions at his lodgings by his restless and agi-
- ated manner, which had been confirmed by a labourer on the
-ailway, who had formerly belonged to-the V division-of Me-
ropolitan Police, stating that he had seen the man in the
seiglfsourhood -of Putney, and that he believed him to be:
Good. Humphries proceeded to the spot and took the man
Ado custody whilst at work, and then told him on what charge
le apprehended him. 'llw man, in a most, firm manner, denied
shat his name was Good, and said it was James Connor.
Air. Humphries gave him into the custody of two of the•
:onstables of the line, and proceeded to his lodgings, where he
fund a bundle containing the clothes described in the pro la-
nation, together with a silver watch, between three and four
pounds in cash, rant a cornelian breast-pin. -Suspicion being
• bus strengthened into certainty, no time was lost in conveying
the 'prisoner before Hare, Esq , a County Magistrate, at the
office of Mr. &hones, the Clerk team Magi, trates at Tonbridge.
The prisoner refused to say who or what .he was, merely re-
narking that they would soon find out their mistake. He
was then conveyed to the county gaol at Maidstone, by the
railway constables, and Mr. Humphries lost no time in pro•
needing-towards London w„ith the intelligence,
Upon receiving this intelligence, Mr. Mane' cu immediately
started to town, in comployi with Mr. Humphries, and the
two proceeded to the °flick of the Police Commissioners in
Scottand-yard, where they :.received instructions to take post
horses, and reach Maidstorai without delay, taking with them
some person who could ktentify the prisoner. Having pro-
teeded to Putney, and oTiteinvd. the -assistance of police con-
stable Whceler, of the 'he party started about
midnight in a post-chairt, and reach Maidstone at four yes-
terday (Sunday) morning. • •Me. BM*, the Governor of the
county gaol, accompanied, them to the cell in which the pri-
soner and two other men Svere Cot-liked. The prisoners were
sleeping at the time the paitty:en'tet4, hilt. on I\lr. Bone or-
dering them to rise, the irtOderen-.4.'ipriing on his feet, and
coolly confronted them, when he was Immediately identified by
police constable Wheeler as Daniel Good, He did not utter a
single word, but behaved in the most collected marnier. He
had previously, in answer to questions from the Governor,
stated that he was a widower, and bad one child, a boy,
about 11 years of age. Knowing the anxiety manifested in the '
metropolis, and anxious to put the Police Commissioners in
possession of the important information, Mr. Malls-lieu,
without stopping, proceeded tO-Londna, leaving directions with
Mr. Humphries to obtain the authority of the Magistrate for
the immediate delivery of Good into his custody, with instruc-
tions to bring him up to town immediately.
Along the whole line of road the news of the caption had
spread like wildfire, and tke inhabitants of the various parishes
on the Maidstone-road, anxiously watched for the return of
the post-chaise, and seemed greatly disappointed on the superin-
tendert returning alone.

ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
arpears that about half-past five o'clock on Monday morning
last, a man with a fustian jacket and trousers, with a dark waist-
coat, entered the Angel public-house, at the southern extremity
of Tonbridge, with a hod, in which was found a small bundle,
and addressing Mr. Adams, the landlord, asked him if he could
assist him to a job as a br.cklayer's labourer. Mr. Adams
told him that there was a good deal of building going on in
the neighbuurhooi, and it was very likely he would get some-
thing to do. The man u;',cu this observed that if he procured
work he would come to lodge at his house, and he then called
for a penny loaf and a half pint of beer, which he had.
The appearance of the matt was such as to raise considerable
suspicion in the mind of Mr. Adams that it he was not what he
represented himself to be, and the suspicion was considerably
heightened by the fact of his having a perfectly new hod, a cir-
cumstance of not very frequent occurrence among this frater-
nity, particularly in such times as the present; but his attention
was at the time taken off him by the arrival of other customers,
to whom he had to attend, and lost s;ght of him for some time.
At about ten o'clock Mr. George Steers, foreman to Mr. Barritt,
a builder at Tunbridge Wells, and who is at -present superin-
tending the building of some new cottages, between the Angel
and the south Eastern terminus, called at the Angel, and the
stranger having applied to him, he at once engaged him, and
set him to work.

Before leaving the Angel the strait:Ter told the landlord he
expected a parcel by Mr. Friend's Sussex coach from Grim-
stead-grcen, and on the same afternoon a puce!, tied up in a
blue co:ton handkerchief, was 1 ft by Mrs. Friend, and kept
with her. It evidently, as the landlord believes, contained
wearing apparel; and on the Lame evening the man called and
took it away, and Mr. Adams heard nothing more of him until
Saturday morning, when he was brought to his house by Mr.
Humphries, an inspector of police on the South Ewer Rail-
way. From the Monday morning until Saturday morning the
man continued to work, as before stated, and nothing par-
ticular occurred until about ten oic!ock, when a person cm•
ployed on the railway works, named Colliflower, who had been
observed two or three times before to scan the stranger
with a very suspicious eye, informed Mr. Humphries of
his strong impression that he was the murderer of
the female at Putney. This at once induced the inspector to
narrowly observe the man, and he was instantly struck with
his perfect likeness to that of the murderer described in the
hand-bills and the lice and Cry. He went up to him, and
asked him if he would accompany him to the Angel, and take
a glass of ale. The man, without much apparent surprise, or
betraying any emotion that struck the officer, replied he had
no objection, and both went to the Angel together. On
reaching there Mr. Humphries took him into the parlour, and
there left him in charge of constables Lad'ow and Peckham,
having first put a pair of handcuffs on, while he proceeded to
his lodging, which was at the house of a basket-maker, named
Harving, and after searching in his room ho found the bundle
described by Mr. Adams, and which had been received by the
coach. On undoing the bundle, which was tied up in a blue
han,lkerclsief, he found it to contain a dark coat, a dark waist-
coat, a palr o f drab breeches, and drab gaiters, all of which
answered in every particular the dress the murderer wore when
he escaped from the constable at Roehampton, and was last seen
in town.

There was also in the bundle a pair of cord breeches and a
white muslin cravat, such as are worn by coachmen, and cer-
tainly not by hodmen.
On the constable Peckham entering the parlour of the Angel,
he found the man still manacled and in a high agitated state,
sitting close to the tire, and observing his making a strange sort
of movement with his hands, and shuffle something into the
fireplace, Which caused him to ask, " What he was at ?"
The man replied, "It is only my watch. The constable in-
stantly seized his hand, and in it found a fashionable and valu-
able double-cased silver watch, engine-turned, such as are
worn in the waistcoat pocket, with a blue ribbon and two seals
attached. He did not ask a single quest ion as to the cause of
his apprehension.

iiniimber of persons employed at the railway here entered
the house, and the officers, by the desire of the landlord, re-
moved their prisoner to an up-stair room. Here he again be-
same fidgetty, and seemed as if lie wished to get rid of something
from his right leg • and on examining the limb, the officer
found, made fast to ihe garter, a purse containing 3/. 17s. 6d.,
namely, three sovereigns, a half sovereign, and three half
crowns. The prisoner appeared much chagrined at this dis-
covery ; and, upon further search, Peckham found inside his
shirt a gold breast pin, with a large stone in it.
Feeling something bulky on his right shoulder, the constable
put in his hand and drew out a piece of padding, which, on ex-
amination, was discovered to consist of an apron, which had
evidently been made from a petticoat, and of material resem-
bling black muslin, in which was rolled a pair of cotton stock-
ing;:, marked "E. Gibbon." On examining the former, it
was found to be much stained with blood, and the prisoner,
when asked how he came to have such articles, and in such a
place, said he had put them there to save his shoulder from the
hod, but could not account for tho stains of b'ood upon the
apron.

At one o'clock he was removed from the Angel to the office
of Mr. Schoones, Clerk to the Magistrates, followed by an im-
mense concourse of persons. In a few minutes after Frederick
Hare, Esq., a county Magistrate, attended, and the prisoner,
who gave the name of Richard Hall,was arraigned Wore him.
The Magistrate informed the prisoner of the nature of the
charge against him—namely, that of murdering a young woman,
named Jane Jones, alias Good, and subsequently mutilating her
body, on the premises of Mr. Shiell, at Roehanipton.
The prisoner merely replied, " I am an innocent man;
and evict. nce can be produced, before the twelve Judges, to
prove it."
Inspector Humphri g , and constables Ledlow and Peck-
ham were examined, and deposed to_ the facts before stated.
But the most important witness was the man Colliflower, who
deposed that, about two years ago, he belonged to the Iletro-
politer' Police Force, and had been stationed at Putney ; and
frequently seen the prisoner on the premises of Mr. Shiell,
and drive that. gentleman's pair of ponies in his small carriage ;
and he was quite confident of his identity, as he had frequently
given him a light.
As the close of the evidence the prisoner, who, during the
examipation, bad been evidently suffering from strong excite-
ment, merely repeated " he 'vas innocent, and he would be
able to produce proof of it on another day."
The priioner was then remanded, and a light cart being in
readiness- lie was conveyed by the two constables,
,Ledlow
and Peckham, to Maidstone gaol. On arriving at the village
of Hadlow, the prisoner entreated the officers to permit him to
get shaved, though he scarcely required the operation, and they
of course refused to comply with his request.
On arriving at Merryworth, the next town, the prisoner
made a similar request, but with more urgent solicitations, but
was again refused. The officers' however, pulled up at the
King's Head Inn, at that place to have some refreshment, and
gave their prisoner some bread and cheese and beer, which he
cat with apparently an excellent appetite.
They then proceeded on the journey, and in passing the next
village, Teston, the prisoner, for the third time, entreated they
would permit him to get shaved; and here his supposed object
became apparent to the constables, and they, in consequence,
kept a most vigilant eye upon him, and handed him over to
Mr. Bone, the Governor of Maidstone county gaol, at 7 o'clock