The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1842-04-22 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

CONDUCT OF GOOD IN THE BOW-STREET CELL. On the arrival of Good at the Police-station in Bow-street, on Sunday night, the charge was taken and entered by Mr. Saunders, the superintendent of the F division of police, and he was at once placed in a cell in company with two policemen. For the first hour or so after his incarceration he appeared to be buried in thought. Suddenly, however, his manner changed, and he used every endeavour to engage the police in conversation. He commenced by narrating to them the circumstances which led to his apprehension, through the instrumentality of the ex•policeman Rose, at Tonbridge Wells. Be said he had seen Rose some days before, and at once recognised him ; and on Rose taxing him with being Good, he denied it, and considered from Rose's manner that he believed him, and that all was safe. He (Good) then went to work again as usual, and on being again taxed by Rose with being Good, he still persisted that he was not, for he did not believe that he could know him in the rigging he had on. He did not even suspect any thing wrong when the police-constable Humphrey asked him to go and have a glass of ale, until be got into the Angel public-house, and saw another policeman with his (Good's) bundle. He then knew that all was up, and he had no chance of escape. Good then spoke in the most affectionate terms of his boy, and asked the constables if they knew what had become of him. One of them informed him that he was quite safe, at which he expressed much satisfaction, and exclaimed, " Ch ! his poor mother died five years ago this day. I was married to her on the day the Duke of York died." He then expressed a hope that all his property would be given to the boy. and said that he must look after that he had left at Tonbridge Wells, or the d— thieves would prig it (alluding to the watch and money taken from him by the police there). Good then inquired who was the last man hung at Newgate, and was answered by one of the policemen, " Blakesley,"— (this was not the fact, Ward being the last for the murder of a child), on which he exclaimed, " Ah, so it was ; a woman was the cause of that too." lie supposed he should be the next, but it was a d— good job; be could die but once. The constable cautioned him to be careful what he said before them ; to which Good replied, " Oh, it's no use • I can die but once." He then asked the constable what they did with persons after they were hung at Newgate—whether they were given over to dissection, against which he had a great abhorrence, or to their relations. The constable replied, " No, they are buried within the prison, and quick-lime put in the coffins to destroy the bodies." Good involuntarily shuddered, and exclaimed " Oh, then, my flesh will be burnt of my bones." He is remarkably cool and indifferent in his behaviour, and professes utter innocence of any crime, although he admits that appearances are " rather black against him." The constables cautioned him against saying any thing to them which he did not wish repeated; but he continued to talk freely, and even spoke in a light manner of having locked the police-constable Gardiner, and the two lads, in the stable at Putney, appearing to think the matter a remarkably good joke. He admits that he was in company with Jane Good on the Sunday night, and that he took her with him to his master's stables in Putney Park-lane ; but away from .kcab and says he knows nothing as to what became of her after that. He also told the constables that when he ran to London,tooa_nd on arrivingPu tne y opposite Park-lane the Spottedheca came e proceeded to Whitechapel, and thence to his wife's house, after which he pledged the articles which were found at the pawnbroker's in Brick-lane, Spitalfields. About three o'clock directlyp ogn the Strand fell off to on Monday morning he became rather heavy and five sleep. He remained sleeping until shortly after of when he and e he awoke up and had breakfast—namely, a pint bread and butter as on the overnight.