The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-07-27
MIR. COLDS MURDERER.

MIX. GOLD'S MURDERER.
Details Of the Arrest of LefrOy and Of
His Life In Retir ment ut stepney-
Trivial Incidents which Led 10 an
Important Capture.
The London Telegraph publishes an ex.
tended account OF the arrest of Lefroy, &c
cused Of the murder of Mr.. Gold 10 the Ball
combe tunnel. "When," says that paper,
"the two inspectors, Swanson and Jarvis,
entered the room at No. so Smith street,
Stepney, they found LEROY sitting in a
chair. They had no difficulty in recog.
nizing him, even without "the information re.
ceived," which, of course, anticipated reccg.
milton. 1t would have been impossible 10
have failed to see in tho poor, weekly, inof-
fensive looking creature the man whose
sketch portrait produced in the Daily Tele-
graph, and reproduced in tho polite circus
lars, had made his remarkable features
familiar to the force from ono end of the
kingdom to the other. As a matter of fact
the police acknowledged that it WAS the
sketch in question which procured the
information leading to tho arrest. The APP
pesrance of the man. but for the terrible crime
laid down to his account, WAS such MS might
have moved to commissoration. AS no sat
Ia the chair he looked extremely weak, mis-
cradle and detected. His emscia,ed appear.
ance seemed TO tell tile either of wsn< of
food or.insbility to take nourishment. He
offered no resistance, and was, indeed, incspa
bic of Offering any. He did not, it would mp.
pear, seem surprised or aurrd by the
entry of tho officers; possibly he had
come TO expect it hourly. They went
up to him and taxed him with being Leiroy
Mspl He at once, and without hesits
ton, admitted. He was then told that he
WAS wanted for the murder of Mr.. Gold,
secured, and conveyed to Scotland Yard"
A correspondent who visited the lodgings
at Stepnoy writes thus to the same .urnal {:
"The house is kept by widow of the name
of Blckers. Mrs, Bickers states that LEROY,
who gave the name Of George Clark, came
to her house yesterday (Thursda,) week, in
consequence Of seeing a bill in tho window
stating that there WAS bed to let.
She replied that she could accommodate
him, and he stated that he had been
recommended to her by neiphbcr on the
other side of the road. lie had Just come
up from Liverpool and would like to take
possession OF the room at once Mrs. Bick-
era replied that the room WAS not quite ready
and Lefroy answered that he would be back
again 10 about two hours, and in about that
time no returned. Hs asked what the rem,
would DO, and che said ak shilings per week.
lle said he should like to have gwen ner IA
weeks rent 10 advance, but only handed
her at that time 81. Cd paying her, however,
tho extra g. Cd. on Sunday morning. She,
did not ask him for references, Ms he ap.
peared genilemsnly young man, and she
believed his statement that no was recon-,
mended by q neighbor, whose name, how,
ever, he said no had forgotten, and could
not remember from which house he had been
recommended. She arranged to supply him
with his meals, except dinners.
AN ENGRAvER.
From tho very commencement no ropre.
sented that he was an eDgraver. For tho
first lew days her suspicious vera not
aroused that no was any other than he
represented himselfio be, but latterly she
noticed that he was somewhat strange in his
conduct and kept himself a. secluded from
observation rs possible. Although he stated
shus nv huh q WA WuCu was W US btut Oh
from Liverpool II never arrived. The day
after he trst came to her house he went GU,
and did not return for about an hour and
a half. Since that time no had never lef.
the house, and was in the habit of
keeping himself as much in the
room allotted to him as possible.
She noticed that he ALWAYS
kept the blinds ,soly drawn in his cham.
Der, and when he came down stairs in the
morning to have hi, breakfast, which he did
at about len o'clock, he would draw the
blinds In that room also. THIS was another
reason which made her suspicious Of him, al.
though che had not the slightest idea that no
was tho man who was wanted for The
Brighton murder. She also observed that
he never took dinners, and although
he would take little bread and
cheese at noon and again In tie
evening, he never had meat but once, and
that was on Sunday, when she asked him
whether be would not Ike some dinner, and
be said no would. This she accordingly
took him. The circumstance which had The
effect Of Inducing her 10 communicate with
the police was that, in the frat place, when
he came down yesterday morning he told
80 ~ "sN nv hAohVy uuu ushou utr Wnetnef
she would mind getting into cab and
going into the city 10 draw bis wages.
She, however, was afraid to leave the HOUSE
alone, and asked him Why no could
not 70 himself. He replied that he bnd
sprained his ankle. and suggested that abe
might find young man who would 20 for
him. subsequently, however, he decided 10
send telegram for his wsges, and Mrs. Biek.
ers got y friend Of hers 10 take the COPY of il
10 the telegraph Office The copy was " Ri.
ten BY LEROY In feipned hand-beiup some.
what bold and round--snd WAS as foilow,.--
"From 9. Clark, No. 80 Smith street, STEM
ney, TO =. Seele, At j. T. Hu'ehinson's, No
IS Gresham street London, Il. C.-Plense
bring me my wages this evening abou, eight,
without fall. Flour TO morrow. Not 49,
SUSPICION.
Mrs. Blckes also noticed on this occasion that
he WIS., wearing coat belonging 10 ano,h,r :
young man who lodged with her, and which
10 must have got from this young gentle.
mans bedroom. She did not, however, like
70 mention the matt Z 70 him, but resolved
upon communicating with the police. But