The Warwickshire Herald. — 1888-05-31 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

THE MURDER OF A WARDER.  JACKSON STILL AT LARGE.  The search for Jackson, the murderer of a warder in Strangeways Gaol, Manchester, has been actively continued. The Northern police have made numerous arrests. Men have been taken into custody at Dewsbury,Wakefield, Northwich, Wolverhampton, and elsewhere,but in every case the suspected persons havegiven satisfaction to the police and been liberated. At Bradford a man was found concealed in a bedroom at the Prince Artour Hotel, Sticker-lane, and be was arrested under the belief that he was the , murderer wanted. On the way to the police-station it was rumoured that Jackson had at last been captured and acrowd consequently followed hooting on the way. The man, however, turned out not to be Jackson. The members of the Manchester detective force are scattered throughout different parts of the country. Of course attention is paid more especially to Yorkshire. It is all but certain that Jackson, after his visit to Oldham, crossed the Yorkshire borclers,and there is som e ground for the belief that he is hiding somewhere in the vast moorland tractsof that county.lf such is theca,* he is almost bound to be caught, for the police are posted at every out:et by which hunger night drive him to escape into the towns. On the other liand,thero is a fear that lie may have been a unit in the great Whitsuntide tcallic of last week, and so escaped to distant parts of the country. The traffic of the week was simply enormous, and it would be no difficult matter had Jackson entered a Yorkshire town to pass in the great crowd to London, North and South Wales,or any holiday placea without being suspected. The London police received information that a man answering in every particular the description of Jackson had entered a small general shop in Union-street, Borough, and purchased some tea and other articles. Curiously enough, he made some passing remarks in reference to the murder of Webb. Some four hours afterwards information was also given to the police that a man answering Jackson's description was seen in the Hampstead-road. In neither case, however, is very much reliance placed upon the information, though the police are not inclined to entirely dismiss the suggestion that , the fugitive may have managed to gain the metropolis. The authorities are continually receiving hints and suggestions; but they are for the most part of the most impracticable nature. The funeral of Ralph Dyer Webb, the murdered warder, took place during the forenoon of Saturday. For some time before the hour appointed for the cortige to leave the prison, large crowds of people were assembled in the street. The hearse was followed by several mourning coaches in one of which rode Major Preston, governor Of the gaol. The mourners included a mother-in-law and other connections of the deceased, in addition to a number of the prison officials. The interment took place at the Salford Cemetery, and the prison chaplain and the Rev. W. Dreaper officiated. Both at the cemetery and on the way thither considerable crowds of people had gathered, from whom expressions of sympathy with the widow of the murdered man were heard on every hand. Four of the gaol warders acted as pall-bearers.