The Northern Daily Times. — 1856-11-28 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

ANOTHER ARREST OF THE SUPPOSED DUB LTN MURDERER. Considerable sensation was produced in town yesterday morning, in consequence of a report that prevailed to the ct that another man had been arrested at the Lime-street railway station, on the above charge. On Monday there appeared in our paper a report of a case that took place at an hotel, in Dale-street, where a person, the supposed murderer, was arrested. This report threw the Dublin police into a state of excitement, and the latter have given no small trouble to our detectives since. Our detective police are a class of men who need not be told how to act in any case, and if the Dublin officers had read our report carefully, they would have seen that the man was a lunatic, labouring under delirium tremens, and, therefore, not an accountable person. It appears, however, that our report caused much attention in Dublin, and a telegraphic message was received here requesting that the man might be retained. He bad been in the hospital since his former surveillance, and it would appear that he came out on Wednesday evening. He was about proceeding to Manchester when he was detained, As already stated, the man is yet suffering from the disease, and if the Dublin police come no nearer the discovery of the wretch who murdered Mr. Little, he will never be brought to justice. The person now in custody turns out to be a cattle dealer. He is about 45 years of age, and his appearance at once indicates tho state he is in. We do not give his name, of curse; we have only to repeat that there is no foundation whatever r the arrest of this man, except, indeed, the words used by himself when in a raging state of madness. The Dublin police may depend on this, that the Liverpool detectives will let no opportunity slip, if they can get any clue to the murderer. The man is detained by desire of the Dublin force, but on what grounds does not appear at present. Since the above was in type, Sergeant Mears, one of the most active and respec'able detectives of Dublin, arrived in town, but his movemeats have bee❑ marked with great caution in reference to the unfortunate man who was detained in the Central Office, in Dale-street, where much mystery seemed to be attached to him. The poor fellow, however, looks more like what he really is—a maniac—than a murderer. We do not see why any mystery should hang round this unfortunate man, nor why the police should conceal any fact connected with him. There seems to be a notion prevalent amongst a certain class of police that the publication of certain facts would lead to a frustration of the ends of justice. There never was a greater mistake than this—it is the publication of the smallest incident that brings groat things to light. We might, if so inclined, give many cases where the publication of small facts led to the apprehensio❑ and conviction of diabolical laturderers, and but for such publication the miscreants would have gale free. If the police authorities wish to be effective in capturing the murderer of Mr. Little, let them give the most ample publicity to all the facts which they now screen from the public, and their chances will he: a thousand to one in their favour, compared to their present hopeless state of arresting the delinquent. Every one—the police excepted —is fully convinced of this truth, and the sooner the heads of the police departments recognise this great truth, the sooner will they be able to capture criminals without much trouble—for then the public will be enabled to give the authorities most valuable assistance, verb sap