The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1880-02-07 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

STATEMENT BY HAILD.  Since his release Haild has made a statement to a rerorter of a Manchester contemporary to the effect that he had read an account of the murder in a newspaper on the evening prior to his arrest, and when, therefore, Sergeants Wallace and Peters came and arrested him he was not ignorant of the crime. The officers first took him, between nine end ten o'clock in the evening, to one of the district police-stations, informing him that there was something wrong with regard to his emigration paper. He was soon afterwards removed to the Central Polioe Office, Guildhall, where his clothes were most minutely examined, and a portion of them were taken from him. Whilst this was proceeding a local sergeant of police was reading aloud an account of the murder at Harpurley, and, taken in oonnec tion with previous circumstances, it at once struck Haild that he was suspected of the crime, whereupon he exclaimed, " It seems to me you don't arrest me only for perjury, but on suspicion of this Harpurley affair; but if you have, you have got a mare's nest. I only hope you won't make a William Habron case of it." It was thereupon remarked to him privately that this was only a suspicion. He was locked up, many of his things being taken from him, and an officer remained with him daring the whole of the night. Afterwards he was removed to Manchester in the manner already described. Whilst at Old Trafford be was accused of the murder of Sarah Jane Roberts, to which he replied that, given a " fair chance" and the opportunity of bringing witnesses whom he would name, he could at once establish his innocence of the crime. Since his arrest he has never been handcuffed, and he has no complaint of ill-treatment to make against the olice. Haild states, however, that he has suffered indescribable agony of mind. The principal reason, Haild states, why he made a false declaration to the magistrates was that be might prevent any knowledge of his whereabouts reaching certain relatives whom he had cause to avoid, and who, while yet a youth, were the cause of his leaving home. In February, 1865, Haild, being then 15 years of age, sailed for Australia, where he remained four years, and during that period he was employed among cattle, and subsequently managed an hotel in Peak Town, Queensland. In 1869 he proceeded to California, and immediately joined the Ist U.S. Cavalry, being attached to E troop. He there saw much active service, having served through the Apache and other Indian wars and through the Modoc war. Several times he was wounded, scars being left on various parts of his body. That he was a capable soldier is proved by the fact that for a period of three months he carried the mails from Tucson to Camp Grant, a ride of eighty miles, through a most dangerous country, receiving pay amountMg to 150 dollars a month. On the last journey of this kind be was shot with an Indian arrow straight through the lower part of the face, and he rode fifty miles with the arrow in that position. On receiving his discharge he found employment as a farmer, and returned to England in 1876. He remained at home only three months, and again set sail for Australia, where he resided until about twelve months ago. Since then Haild has lost all his money, in a manner that reflects no discredit on himself. He and his wife are now utterly destitute. The small means which he possessed are forfeited to the Government consequent upon his having made the false declaration on applying for the emigration order.  Amticutrostx, Dosaasszos in by no mearsi confined to the growers of Corn; the hops of Kent have failed, and so have those remarkable Cherries which impart the charm to