The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1841-12-07 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

FURTHER PARTICULARS.  Since writing the above two more parties have been apprehended on suspicion, but the police are still on the alert, as. the present prisoners are only detained upon circumstantial grounds, and the real murderer may yet be at liberty. A. man named Patrick M'Coddom was taken on Sunday afternoon, in Rainford, with a tolerable sum of money in his possession, which he cannot satisfactorily account for; and his personal appearance bespeaks that of a wandering mendicant the apparel he wore being very much tattered—which may seem rather ominous of his dishonesty. Another man, named William Jacques, is also in " durance vile," in addition to. those mentioned above, he being detained because he was seen in company the evening previous to the murder with the first-mentioned parties, and is known by the Donee as belonging to their community of " dishonourables,'/ who have been a plague to the neighbourhood for years, and are styled the, " Long Company," owing to their numbers and the frequency of their exploits. It has been stated that this company were drinking at a. public-house (the sign of the Seven Stars) in Eccleston at a. late hour on Saturday night. This place is not very far from. the spot where the murder has been committed, and the probability of these parties, on leaving there, of having fallen with Mr. Grayson, and committed the fatal deed, is a probability which, however unjust, is seized and insisted upon. by all gossips. Robert Woods was rather intoxicated when. taken.  Another fact, which is much talked about, is, that on Sun-. day morning the Superintendent of Police and Police-Ser— geant Branwood were going to Rainford, when they called at. the house of the deceased, and the superintendent having got; out of his gig and gone into the house, the two prisoners, Meadowcroft and Isaac Jacques, mentioned above, were seen. by the sergeant coming through the deceased's farm yard,. when the officer, knowing these characters, looked keenly upon them, and detected spots of blood upon their apparel.. He descended from the gig and collared both of them, when., they threatened to attack him if he did not cease his grasp.. He called for the superintendent, who immediately came to.. his assistance, and both parties were; secured. We may re• mark, that between twelve and one o clock on the night before, the murder, Mr. Blades, the landlord of the public-house at: Denton's Green, accompanied a gentleman part of the way tohis home, in the direction of Rainford, when they descried. two men near a finger-post opposite Mr. Blade's house, amt. noticed their dresses, which, from the description they have since given, correspond with those of two of the prisoners. These are circumstances which onr readers must be contentwith until an o fficial investigation into the matter is entered. upon. At present we cannot lay before our readers anything more, definite respectiing this melancholy affair until the coroner's inquest has been held, a full report of which shall appear in.. our number of F riday next. There is no doubt that the ob— ject of Mr. Grayson's murderer was plunder, for his disposi— tion was that of a harmless, inoffensive man, 65 years of age, and it cannot be supposed that ha had fallen a victim to the, remorseless vengeance of an excited adversary.  The Western Times says, the carriage of goods by tle Bristol and Exeter Railway to Exeter is much on the increase.