The Warwickshire Herald. — 1888-10-04 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

ARRESTS OF SUSPECTED MEN.  A man was brought to the Leman-street station on Sunday night, under circumstances which gave the police hopes at first that they had made an important capture. He was arrested, it seems, near Mitre-court, and could give no satisfactory account of himself. His appearance was anything but prepossessing. He was a short, thickset man of about 30, close shaven. Upon him was found Is. -lid. in money and a razor,send round his throat was a woollen scarf of a violet colour. updh which were several long hairs, evidently those of a woman. In reply to the inspector,he said that he had walked from Southampton, and belonged to the Royal Sussex Regiment (the very regiment, it will be remembered, whose cognisance. was on the envelope found in the pocket of the Buck's-row victim). An examination of him boots, however, was not at all confirmatory of this statement, and he was taken to the cells for inquiries to be made about him. No blood was found upon his clothes, solar as could be ascertained then, but a thorough examination will be made by an expert. There was another arrest made during the night, the prisoner being taken to Commercial-road police-sta. tion. The prisoner, however, readily furnished hie name aud address and apparently had no knowledge of the details of the murders. He was discharged upon his statement being verified. The man when taken into custody was in a very excited condition. At 3.15 on Monday morning a third man was arrested and likewise taken to Leman-street police station. He was also released in the course of the day. A deecriution was circulated of a man who  le Staten CO nave accoatea an • union-1=0A" In the IriOink, of Commercial-road on Saturday night, and to have threatened to cut her throat if ehe did not give him money. The woman gave him a shilling, and he then went away. _ . _  During Tuesday four persons were arrested on the chance that they might have had something to do with the Berner-street murder, but the only items against them were their own bravado or their suspicious looks. It has become customary for shabbily dressed men who frequent public-houses in the neighbourhood of Whitechapel to proclaim in their cups that they know a great deal about the murders, and aa some one in the place generally informs the police, a constable, for form's sake, is obliged to take the braggart to the police-station, where it is, without exception, found Vast the boasts are utterly untrue. The men taken to the station were in every case discharged. One arrest was effected as far away Si Hampton Wick. An individual, apparently a gentleman in reduced circumstances, called on Monday night at an inn, and asked for a lodging. He was admitted, but not long after a remark was made by one who saw him that he was somewhat of the description circulated of the Whitechapel murderer. Mr. Honeycomb, the landlord, also thought he saw a slight resemblance, and a constable was called in, but nothing further was done in the matter, as the man's account of himself was considered satisfactory. On Tuesday morning, however, the visitor's appearance seemed changed to the landlord, and the conclusion come to was that he had shaved his whiskers off during the night. The police were again sent for, and another constable took charge of the man. He was brought across the Thames to Kingston police-station, and there stated that he obtained from the British Consul a free passage from Brussels to London, where he landed on Saturday and stayed during the night. Sunday night he spent at the Sun Hotel, Market-place, Kingston, and on Monday night he went to the King's Head, Hampton Wick, where the unfounded suspicions were aroused. He gave a full account of all his movements since his arrival, and said he had friends at New Malden who would corroborate his statement. These people were visited by the constable, and the statement made by the suspect being found to be pretty correct, he was accordingly released.