The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-07 00:00:00

FURTHER PARTICULARS

Since writing the above two more parties have been appre-
hended on suspicion, but the police are still on the alert,. as
the present prisoners are only detained upon circumstantial
grounds, and the real murderer may yet be at liberty. A
man named Patrick M'Coddom was taken on Sunday after-
noon, in Rainford, with a tolerable sum of money in his pos-
session, which he cannot satisfactorily account for; and his
personal appearance bespeaks that of a wandering mendicant—
the apparel he wore being very much tattered—which may
seem rather ominous of his dishonesty. Another man, named
William Jacques, is also in " durance vile," in addition to
those mentioned above, he being detained because he was
seen in company the evening previous to the murder with the
first-mentioned parties, and is known by the police as belong-
ing to their community of " dishonourables,' who have been
a plague to the neighbourhood for years, and are styled the
" Long Company," owing to their numbers and the fre-
quency of their exploits.
It has been stated that this company were drinking at a
public-house (the sign of the Seven Stars) in Eccleston at a
late hour on Saturday night. This place is not very far from
the spot where the murder has been committed, and the pro-
bability of these parties, on leaving there. of having fallen in
with Mr. Grayson, and committed the fatal deed, is a pro-
bability which, however unjust, is seized and insisted upon
by all gossips. Robert Woods was rather intoxicated when
taken. . . _

Another fact, which is much talked about, is, that on Sun-
day morning the Superintendent of Police and Police-Ser-
geant Branwood were going to Rainford, when they called at
the house of the deceased, and the superintendent having got
out of his gig arid gone into the house, the two prisoners
Meadowcroft and Isaac Jacques, mentioned above, were seen
by the sergeant coining through the deceased's farm yard,
when the officer, knowing these characters, looked keenly
upon them, and detected spots of blood upon their apparel.
He descended from the gig and collared both of them, when
they threatened to attack him if he did not cease his grasp.
He called for the superintendent, who immediately came to
his assistance, and both parties were secured. We may re-
mark, that between twelve and one o'clock on the night before
the murder, Mr. Blades, the landlord of the public-house at
Denton's Green, accompanied a gentleman part of the way to
his home, in the direction of Rainford, when they descried
two men near a finger-post opposite Mr. Blade's house, and
noticed their dresses, which, from the description they have
since given, correspond with those of two of the prisoners.
These are circumstances which our readers must be content
with until an official investigation into the matter is entered

upon.
At present we cannot lay before our readers anything more
definite respecting this melancholy affair until the coroner's
inquest has been held, a full report of which shall appear in
our number of Friday next. There is no doubt that the ob-
ject of Mr. Grayson's murderer was plunder, for his disposi-
tion was that of a harmless, inoffensive man, 65 years of age,
and it cannot be supposed that he had fallen a victim to the
remorseless vengeance of an excited adversary.

The Western Times says, the carriage of goods by the
Bristol and Exeter Railway to Exeter is much ou the in-
crease.

CORRESPONDENCE

TO THE CONSERVATIVE MEMBERS OF THE
TOWN COUNCIL OF LIVERPOOL.