The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-08-15 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MYSTERY STRANGELY SOLVED.—The other week we related the facts of a case in which two men had been apprehended at Hessle for having in their possession various articles of clothing, known to be those of a young man who some time ago was staying at Leeds. This case has been before the Sculcoates bench of magistrates for four successive weeks. On Tuesday last, Bateman and Bunting, the two men who had been detained in custody. were discharged. It appears that Jonas Edward Iredale, who represented himself as a clerk to Mr. Ledgard, of Mirfield, the solicitor who prosecuted M'Cabe and Reid for the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Wraith and their servant maid, had lodged at a public-house in Leeds for about twenty-six weeks. where he represented himself as having business to do at Dewsbury once a week, for which he received £1 per day. His appearance and manner being respectable, he became the acknowledged suitor of one of the daughters of the landlord. At the second trial of M'Cabe and Reid, he gave evidence against them. They were convicted. His connection with Mr. Ledgard immediately ceased, and he went to the north, still continuing his correspondence with the landlord's daughter, which suddenly ceased on the 7th July. From subsequent inquiries, it appeared that he had left Durham shortly after writing to Miss —, and had not afterwards been heard of, until, on the 17th, the prisoners were apprehended at Hessle with a large portion of his wearing apparel in their possession. It was, of course, supposed that he had been murdered, and that these men in probability knew more of his death than they would tell. The facts, as ultimately elicited, are that Iredale never was clerk to Mr. Ledgard, but being in York Castle during the first imprisonment of M'Cabe and Reid, he was at the same assizes indicted for forgery, but the bill was ignored. When M`Cabe and Reid were acquitted, he went to Mr. Ledgard, and told him that he had in prison overheard a conversation between M'Cabe and Reid, which went to prove their guilt. Upon this information they were re-taken, and again committed. Iredale represented himself as being upon the point of proceeding to America. To secure his attendance at the trial, he was allowed £1 per week to live upon until the assizes. This he received at Dewsbury, and the receiving of it was his only business there. Of course his connexion with Mr. Ledgard ceased at the trial, but he represented himself to the young lady as having obtained employment which yielded him £3 per day. At the time when he suddenly disappeared, he fell in with Bateman, and proposed to him.' to go and break into the country house of a banker, ngt far from Newcastle. Iredale, who had left his carpet-liag in care of Bateman, actually got into the house. Bateman's heart failed him, and he ran away, took the carpet-bag, and came down to Hull in a steamer, on board of which he met with Bunting. The suitor, the supposed lawyer's clerk, and the man supposed to be murdered, is then at large, and is declared to be a burglar.—Hull Advertiser.  The John Bull announces the demise of a new publication entitled " Politics for the People," after three months' trial, the principal contributors having been : " The erudite and thoughtful Maurice, of King's College ; Chenevix Trench, his friend; Kingsley, the sweet singer of the Maid's Tragedy ; S. G. 0., the eloquent defender of the claims of the poor in the columns of the Times; Connington, the accomplished and deeply-reflective author of ' Essays in the intervals of business ;' Bellenden Kerr, Doctor Guy, of sanitary renown, and one whose name we know not if we are at liberty to mention, although the students of logic, glancing to the Episcopal bench, will have no difficulty in guessing it."