New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-26
THE MURDERS I'm THE BAY.
ARREST OF THE MURDERER.
HIS ARRIVAL AND Ar! pEAhA1'oH'
DETAILS OF THE CAPTURE.
He is Fully Edentifi. VI

| soop murder had, on Saturday morning, incr. 'A'e
greatly. The uppermost question of every person VI
the street was, Is the murderer caught YETI Hun
dreds called at the Secondhand Staton-House to in
qure if it was true that the officers had captured him
| in Providence. Upon being answered in the afirma-
| tive, the r qujrers communicated the wherever
they went and it known in the remotest portions
the city long before the arrival Of the officers and
their prisoner Thousands had visited the Inflated
tloop before noon and at that time groups Of people
ontnued to pour upon the wharf take the places Of
hose who had already Toasted their eyes with eight
| Of the vease As the party were expected by the
morning train from the east Capt. Weed dispatched
officer to the Undergraduates railroad depot,
whore ne found that the prisoner had yet arrived
| The intimation that they would come in by the
Boston train at O'Clock, p. M, spread through
the city, the afternoon papers giving the excitement
impetus by the printed assurance that the prisoner
wss then on his way hither Meantime eommunica-
ton had been received from Islp, L. l., Capt Burrs
home stating that the intelligence of the circumstance
ha6 given Mrs. Bur- terrible shock.
In the course of the forenoon, Mr.. Sssh Howell, the
part owner Of the sloop, called at the SecondWar
Staton-House, and saw the compass which had been
found under the bed in Johnson's apartment at the
corner of Cedar and Greenwich streets, but did not
| identify it as that belonging to the sloop.
Hundreds locked uptown the and or foot to
| be In readiness for
| THE ARRIVAL OF THE PRISONER.
For an hour before the arrival of the o'clock train
Of cars the depot at TWEEN street presented
busy aud excited scene. The crowd was divided INTO
small 9roups csnvassDp the merits Of the ana
deccing upon guilt modes Of punishment, aud chances
Of trisi by Juoee Ly noh A, Fcry street. the
| Oprer md OF Ire tunnel numbers had ssO gathered
long before clock bot had dsDoseG 81 themseges N
lie ueales, bar-roomf. Sh0ry after O'Clock Captain
Weed a. ore Of j- oic.re arrived ~ earn r. IN
Iesdircssto receive toe expected party. a. length,
about a.: O'clock the alarm whsle was heard ~ the
da'srce the rere OF ne spp-oa Of me tla'n Two
| nuutet tao scarcely eiAp-ed hen several auntr3d
per ons suddenly Appeared on re sdes Of the ,fs,k
30 spontsosous war TIN orowdiug tia If w4s difficult
TO conceive how nsLy persons could 30 easily and
20 sOou 6sooge Themselves, houses OF any KIND ara
,ps1se in hat IL mediate He'g borhocd The train AZ
rv.d ,he c4rs were disconnected, in readiness TO be
| hc' - ~ 10 ttr h0rses
C.t,ail Weed suo several other officers jumped into
the ears Lus nothing of the prisoner nor the OIL
cers III chsJee. bIak intimated that they woud
rot lie On tiii The 30 o'clock train. All was dsap-
pom tut. The baggage ear, which was Foremost LETT
for the lower depot, and Immediately the information
was given that that car contained the prize. Captain
Weed and bis officers entered their carriage and rode
off ut full speed for Twenty.seventh street. Tine
crowd gradually dispersed; considerable portion of 1t,
however, made desperate effort 70 get down town,
but il was usees-the baggage car had headed every
person off, 1t arrived al Twenty seventh street with
out tie slightest suspeion the part of the immense
crowd there congregated that contained the prisoner
In lees than two minutes the party had disposed OF
themselves under the auspices OF Studieys Express IN
a wagon in which they left before the arrival OF ths
rear cars This course had been pursued by the Off
Gers in charge of the prisoner because of anticipated
| excitement and probable difficulty in Of crowd.
Officer Nevins wisely provided for the emergency by
enlsting the assistance of the baggage master who
| upon arriving at the depot had Suoley's Express
wagon drawn up alongside of the baggage-car, into
which they transferred themselves snd the prisoner,
and rode at rapid speed through bystreets to the
| Second Ward Station. House, where large crowd
were on hand TO get sight at the prisoner. Johnson
Wa at once taken into the Captains private room,
where be sa with evident composnre gazing upon the
persons who crowded at the door of the apartment TO
| have peep al him.
As soon Az he entered the room, he identified the
compsss already referred TO, belonging 10 himself
| and stated that be had got it on board the Royal
Prncess lie was shortly ser transferred to CELL IN
which he appeared to feel quite comfortable.
THE PURSUIT AND ARREST
After the prifoper was locked up, the reporters a.
sembled in the eide roo ard received the folio wing
| statement from Officer Neyns:
Capt Smith and myself left the City on Thursday, in
the IL O'Clock train of the Long Shore Railroad, Tor
StoniDgton aud Providence. The same afternoon we
arrived nj SoniDgton and went on board the Slonng-
ton boat Commonwealth, 10 make inquiries 1or sailor
man his wife and child The boa; arrived that morn.
inc about two o'clock and Of only chance OF
getting trace of the murderer from the officers OF
4 the boat We heard Of several women with children,
but they did not answeT the descriptions 10 we waited
until O'Clock that night, when M. Howard, the bag
| gaqe-master, arrived in the Boston night traiD' lie
gave us information Of two three different women
who stopped on the route between SOnngoD and Boz
ton TIE description Of one party, Of man, woman,
aud lid, who stopped at Canton Mass, was so near
that on the arrival of the boat IRON rewl orr ~
O'Clock on FRIDAY morning, We lett IN the tram which
carried forward passengers. TN arriving III CStn-
ton however " 9 found THAI the woman was not inc
orc we were in search Of we immediately returned
10 Providence being satisfied that the murderer could
! not have taken the StoninRton route In PROVIDENCE
| we called upon Mr. George Billings, detective
| officer who with several other officers, cheerfally
| rendered us every assistance. We drove around tho
city to all the saior clearinghouse, and to all the
| railroad depoa, quostIoning DfgRage-mahle's ana
every one likely 10 give information, but could get
10 satisfactory clue 30 we concluded that they hsd
| utobahly come by the Fall River Tou.e, and capt.
Smith ent down 10 the steamboat Bradford Dur,ee 10
| make inquiry there. The deck-hGDd remembered ina
on the plevons morning FaloT and little sore-eyed
woman and child came up with them, aud asked HIM
ii be kuew Of any quiet boerdlng-house, IN reureo
mari Of the CITY, where he could go for few weeks
lie told him thar re did not, but referred
| him 10 backmRn, who took him on 10
| dl,ant palt Of the city. The hacknan VIA coon
! .c,na .nd or npcs rscoll.Cted the CIRCUMSTANCES,