The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-03-28 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

EXTRAORDINARY DISCLOSURES.—Travis, who was acquitted at the late assizes at Lincoln, on the charge of murdering Mr. Copeman, of Blyborough, in December last, is again in custody, undergoing an examination by the magistrates. A man has come forward to give evidence against him, who deposes that he was laid under shelter of a haystack, on the night of the murder, and heard the whole scuffle. He followed Travis home, and assisted in concealing his boots, &c., and was to receive a large sum of money if Travis got off. On applying for that sum, it was flatly refused, and he was told if he informed he would also be transported. The man, however, has made the depositions before the magistrates, and the sensation produced in the neighbourhood is of the most intense description. A singular part of the story is, that the witness might have secured the £lOO reward had he informed before the trial.—Another correspondent communicates the following additional particulars :—ln consequence of a railway bricklayer having stated in several public-houses, on the 11th and 12th instant, that he saw Joseph Travis murder Charles Copeman, and persistingin his tale, he was ordered into custody, and a warrant was issued for the apprehension of Travis. Both Travis and Fell (the bricklayer) have been committed to Lincoln Castle, to take their trial at the assizes for robbery. The prisoner Travis looked much altered since the assizes, and appeared to have lost the confidential air he has maintained since he was first taken into custody.—Hull Herald.  At the Middlesex Sessions, on Thursday, John Harvey, a colonel in the Guernsey militia, surrendered to take his trial on an indictment charging him with having stolen a bible and-a prayer-book K from .entishtown Church. On eamr-aounring the monuments, ne sat down in one oft On pews. On his leaving the verger observed something bulky in his pocket, and on looking into the pew missed the books. The verger followed the prisoner, and charged him with stealing the books, upon which he voluntarily returned to the church, and instead of denying the act, said he could not think what induced him to commit the theft. Mr. Clarkson, for the prisoner, said his client was not only a gentleman of unsullied reputation, but a man of good station in life, having been a banker in Guernsey. When this affair occurred the prisoner was on his way to the house of Mr. Tatham, solicitor, of Lincoln's-innfields, at Hampstead, where he had been invited to dine. He had observed a monument raised to the memory of a wife who had died in childbirth, and that being applicable to a melancholy event which had befallen him, he referred to the Bible found upon him to make the quotation, and in a momentary absence of mind, occasioned by the recollection of his misfortune, he had unwittingly neglected to replace it. General Napier, late Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey, pronounced the prisoner, whom he had appointed to a colonelcy in the Guernsey Militia, to be a gentleman of the highest character. Other witnesses having given similar testimony, the jury unhesitatingly returned a verdict of " Not guilty."