The Express. — 1849-03-31 (London, England)

THE MURDER AT LIVERPOOL. CAPTUIII OP TES SUPPOSED ASSASSIN.  A second edition of the Liverpool Mercury, dated Thursday night, 12 p.m., says— John Gleason Wilson, apprehended to-night, has just been ordered by Mr. Dowling to be locked up on the charge of wilful murder. A person answering his description called at the house of Miss Harrison. 19, Upper htt-street, or. Wednesday afternoon, and asked for lodgings, and the same afternoon he offered a gold watch for isle at Trinmere The mother of Mrs. Henrichson, who suited in town from Hull to-night, has identified the watch and chain found in the pomades of the prisoner as those belonging to her daughter. A purse also found upon the prisoner has been identified by the charwoman who was in the habit of washing at the house as the property of Mrs. Henrichron. The prisoner stated he boughttha purse at Bristol, and also one of the shirts of which he had three on his back, ens of them having lately .undergone partial washing about the deems. Mr. Superintendent Clough having cautioned the prisoner, told him he was charged with the wilful murder of two children. He replied, in a half careless, half impetuous manner, "I am 'studied to stand my trial for it." Mr. Dowling ordered the prisoner to strip. and stains of blood were found upon his bleak silk hankerchief. As before stated, be bad three shirts on, his trouser', cap, and neckerchief were new. On Wednesday evening he lodged in a house in Porter-street, in this town, where he had given a shirt stained with blood to be washed. Mike? Toole went to this house after his apprehension, and there found a hat with crape on This hat answered exactly the description given in the bills, and when placed on the head of the prisoner, considerably changed his personal appearance. When the bat was shown to him, he said, "That is mine ; I'll prove it." The prisoner has only been married a few months. He left his wife at Mr. Lewis's house, Lower Tranmere, about two months ego, and where he had been since his friends were not aware, although they heard he had him at London, Bristol, and other places. When asked where he got the trousers he wore, the prisoner said, " That is for you to find out." The boy from whom he took the potatoes at the door, now speaks positively to the prisoner; and, on seeing the difference in the countenance which is made by substituting the bat for the cap, there is no wonder that a mistake at first in the identity should be the consequence. Late as the hour was, the news of the apprehension of the supposed murderer spread through the town, and there was a considerable number of persons in the neighbourhood of the police-eine. Mr. Dowling, at the tints the news reached him, was at the Collegiate Institution hearing Jenny Lind, and when the intelligence was conveyed to him, it soon was whispered about that an important communication had reached the head constable, and considerable sensation was evinced in the ball.  The prisoner appeared exceeding restless and confused. The fingers and thumbs of his hands he moved quickly together, and although when the bat was brought into his premium he betrayed little change in his countenance, all his former levity disappeared. When asked to what country ho belonged he replied, to Tipperary, and added that he was a fitter, The prisoner has a country look, and speaks thickly. That plunder was one of the objects of the murderer no doubt now exist*.