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sighing and groaning in his sleep most piteously. The office
who is appointed to sit up and watch him observed that he
fell into a doze until twelve o'clock the same night, when he
ejaculated, " Lord, have mercy upon me! Oh !my dear
boy; it is Susan Butcher that has brought me to this. Oh!
heavenly Father. Oh ! Lord Jesus." After passing a few
restless moments, he again cried out, " Oh ! Dr. Parkins,
little did I think I should come to this ; take care of my
boy." This, as it seems, was alluding to Dr. Parkins, of
the Royal Artillery at Woolwich, in whose service the pri-
soner's wife lived as nurse, and where he first became ac-
quainted with Susannah Butcher. In the course of the same
night he again exclaimed, " Oh ! my dear boy, that nasty
woman has been my ruin. Oh ! that a man should ruin
himself by that nasty drink and —. I'll run—l'll run
away. Oh ! you wicked father. Going to see that nasty
woman has been the cause of my ruin."
These exclamations show the perturbed state of Good's
mind on the night after be bad undergone examination at
Bow-street Police-court. It may now be as well to give some
account of his demeanour upon the following day when
visited by the magistrates.
Between twelve and one o'clock on Tuesday, Sir John
Hansler, accompanied by J. B. Armstrong, Esq., entered
the prisoner's cell (apartment would better characterise the
portion of the building in which Good is detained), and Sir
John, addressing him said, I understand you have had
the chaplain with you ?" To which Good replied, " Yes,
sir, and he has read me two chapters out of the Bible,
and he has made me shed tears." Sir John observed, " 1
hope those tears came from the heart as well as the eyes;"
and Good answered that they did. At this time the pri-
soner was seated before a good fire, and in the course of
conversation displayed considerable anxiety as to the dis-
posal of his body, supposing he was hanged ; he expressed
himself in terms of abhorrence at having his body dissected
after death, but in a few minutes regained his wonted com-
posure, and inquired if he might not be permitted to have a
potatoe for dinner. The magistrate replied " certainly, he
might have potatoes and some solids if he pleased." Sir
John then asked the prisoner if he could read, and he stated
that he could neither read nor write, and Mr. Chesterton,
the governer of the gaol, observed that of course a man
should read to him. Several religious tracts and a Bible
were upon the table for the use of the turnkeys attending
upon Good, and from 'the reading of which he said he felt
considerable gratification. He said he hoped his boy would
be taken care of, adding that he had been married, and that
the boy was his son by his first wife. Sir John Hausler
asked, " Were you really married, and is that your son by
the marriage?" and the prisoner answered in the affirmative.
The prisoner showed a disposition to be very communicative,
and to say a great deal more, but says Sir John Hansler, " I
was anxious, as a magistrate, not to extract anything from
him that might criminate himself." The impression made
upon this interview with the prisoner is. that he is not dis-
posed to be any longer artful, but that he seems to be re-
gardless of life, and desirous of giving himself up to justice.
Indeed the general belief of those that have conversed with
him appears to be, that within a few hours be will make a
free and full confession of his guilt. Before leaving him, Sir
John Hansler asked the prisoner if he was an Irishman, and
he said that he was born in Hampshire, but was taken to Ire-
land when very young, and having been brought up there he
had acquired the brogue and manners of au Irishman.
Shortly after the two magistrates referred to had quitted
the prisoner's cell, another visiting justice inquired of Good
if he had every thing comfortable ? Good said he had, but
should like to have his clothes, alleging that the officers had
plenty of them. The magistrate explained to the prisoner
that he could not be permitted to have them, as it was ne-
cessary he should go in Bow-street in the same dress as that
which be wore when brought into the prison. Good then
said, " Where is my white neckerchief ; cannot I have that ?
I should like it better than this blue one ;" and he was told
he might have the neckerchief he wore washed, but could
not be allowed to wear any other. The justice next asked
Good if he had slept well ? and he replied, " Oh, yes ; very
well. That is as good a bed (pointing to a mattress upon
which he had slept) as I had at Mr. Shiell's." He then said
he ought not to have been there, and declared it was merely
a little drink and Susannah Butcher that had got him into
trouble. The magistrate asked who Susannah Butcher was,
and Good answered, " The girl I fell in love with." The
worthy magistrate then explained to Good that he was not
there for punishment, but merely for safe custody, and hav-
ing told him that any request he might make (consistent
with the rules of the gaol) should be complied with, the jus-
tice took his departure.
From other statements which Good has made it appears
that upon the night the murder was discovered he fled to
South-street, Manchester-square, and remained there until
the following morning. He says he laid down and rested
himself, but did not go to sleep. He then took a cab and
removed the things belonging to Jane Jones to the Spotted
Dog, Strand, where he left them, and proceeded to his wife's,
" Molly Good," in Spitalfields. On his way thither he got
M'Evey to write the letter to Mr. Shiell for his wages, and
at the time, he adds, " I was dressed in a plat+ stuff cloak,
which Jane Jones used to wear, but which belonged to my
wife." This agrees with M'Evey's description of him.
It may be as well here to explain that the prisoner was
married io Molly Good 22 years since in Ireland, but appears
subsequently to have been married to a nurse in Dr. Parkins's
family, by whom Good had four children, and the only one
now surviving was examined at the inquest.
But to return to his flight. He returned with Molly
Good on the Thursday to the Spotted Dog, and fetched
away his luggage in a cab, and the same morning he went
into the Borough and saw a relation. He afterwards went
to Deptford, to see a nephew, who works near the Creek
at an iron foundry, and again returned to the Borough,
where he slept on the Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
nights. Good says on Friday be came into the city, and on
passing over London-bridge he heard ft man crying out ticap
particulars of the murder, and selling the printed ac-
counts, and he stopped for a minute or two and listened to
him. On Saturday he again visited Deptford, and in the
evening returned to the borough, when his relation, with
whom be was staving, said that the men at the " pay table "
bad been reading the newspapers (this is Good's own ac-
count,) and that be must be off. He remarked—" Oh,
there are more Daniel Goods than one, and they then
went and purchased the dress in which he was taken, and a
new hod, and he started for Deptford, where he slept that
night. On Sunday morning he set out, with his hod across
his shoulder and clothes tied up in a bundle under it, to
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again, and, having coolly sat out the operationof shaving, he
started for Sevenoaks, upon reaching which place be got the
master of an inn to direct his bundle to Tonbridge.

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