The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-03-15 00:00:00

DUBLIN POLICE BILL.

. Lord MORPETH, after the house had resumed, obtained leave
to bring in a bill to amend the Dublin police bill. His lord-
ship said it was identically the same as the bill of last year.—
Adjourned.
VON.

MURDER OF THE LATE NICHOLAS FAIRLES,
ESQ., OF SOUTH SHIELDS.

We have been favoured with a perusal of the official docu-
ments in reference to one of the most extraordinary confessions
ever recorded in the annals of crime. The facts connected with
the murder of Nicholas Fairies, Esq., at Jarrow, near South
Shields, about four years ago, will be fresh in the recollection
our readers. The victim, it will be remembered, was an active
magistrate of the county of Durham, and the deed of blood
was. committed on the highway, in a populous neighbourhood,
and in broad day-light. The murderers were Wm. Jobling and
Ralph Armstrong, belonging to the Pitmen's Union, the mem-
bers of which, having struck work for an advance of wages,
were organized by several designing demagogues, under whose
auspices, and, as it now appears, at whose instigation, the de-
luded men committed crimes of the most desperate and awful
description. The guilty perpetrators of many of those acts of
outrage, which filled the public mind with dread, were never
brought to justice, but there could be no doubt as to the indeutity
of the murderers of Mr. Fairies. Two women saw the deed
committed; a host of witnesses also observed Jobling and
Armstrong run away from the scene of their atrocity. Arm-
strong's hands were red anthreeking with the life-blood of the
unfortunate gentleman, who lingered sufficiently long to make
a deposition as to the viilanous deed. Jobling was apprehended,
convicted, executed, and gibbeted at Jarrow-Slake. Rewards,
to the amount of £5OO, were offered for the apprehension of
Armstrong—a sum sufficiently large, one would have thought,
_to tempt the cupidity of those.persons who might be acquainted
with the place of his concealment. But, if the confession to
which we have adverted be correct, such was not the case. A
man, who has gone by the name of "Wm. Robinson," as a
sailor en board his majesty's ship •"fribune," cruising off the
island of Corfu, iu the Mediterranean, made a detailed confes-
sion of the murder, before the captain and officers, on the 15th
and 16th days of January last. He gave a circumstantial
account of the committal of the crime, as the facts were elicited
in the county of Durham on the trial of Joblitig. He further
stated that he remained in concealment in the neighbourhood
where the crime was perpetrated, until after the gibbet, exposing
the body of Jobling, was erected in Jarrow Slake. He was
then, he says, along with three other men, employed by the•
delegates of the•PitnietesUnicm.ao cut flowrrthe body of Joblin~r.
This daring act was accomplished in the dead of night, and the
body, as it was in chains, was carried in a waterman's boat,
outside Shields Bar, and thrown into the sea. For this service,
himself and the other three men received, from the Pitmen's
Delegates, and out of the union funds we use the confessor's
own words), "the sum of two pounds each anti a blow-out of
grog and porter, and a supper." The individual, who has made
the above statement, further confessed that the name of " ito-
inson," by-which he had gone since he served in the ship
bone, was the maiden name of his mother, but that his real
name was William Armstrong. After having twice attested
anti signed the confession of which the above is the substance,
Captain Tomkinson of the Tribune, discharged him to his
Majesty's ship Sapphire, to proceed from her by the steam-pac-
ket to Malta, for the decision of Sir Josias Rowley, the com-
manning officer on the Mediterranean station. There can,
therefore, be no doubt that the man will speedily arrive in this
country. The necessary- steps as to his identity will, of course,
be immediately taken, and, if he he really the murderer, his
eventual couviction of the crime may be looked upon as certain.
It is much to be regretted that Captain Tomkinson did not scud,
along with the confession, a description of the man, This
might have entirely removed any doubt as to the subject of
identity. There are several slight discrepancies in the fellow's
statement. For example, the real name of the murderer was
" Ralph," and nut " William" Armstrong. There are also one
or two other minor points, but after a careful perusal of the offi-
cial documents, and comparing the facts stated with those
which were elicited in the trial of Jobling as reported in this
paper, we have not a shadow of doubt on the subject. Under
an impression that the entire publication of the confession
might, at the present moment, frustrate the ends of justice, we
have been induced to suppress it. One remarkable feature of
the case is, that the man, previous to his confession, was a
drunken, disorderly fellow, and had often, when in liquor,
stated to his messmates that he was the murderer of Mr. Fair-
les.—Newcastle Journal.

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