The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1880-01-27 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

THE MANCHESTER MURDER.  ARREST OF THE SUPPOSED MURDERER. Several days ago the Plymouth police received a communication from the Manchester poliee, giving a description of a man who was supposed to be about to emigrate from Plymouth for Australia, whc was wanted for perjury. It appears that the warrant held by the police charged the man with perjury, which consisted in h tying given his name in the emigration papers as Robert Hild, whereas his real name was ascertained to be Thomas Wait. The Plymouth pollee kept strict watch on the emigration ships, and as the result Sergeant Wallace, of the Manchester police, and a private cotetable, arrived at Plymouth on Sunday night, and were conducted by the Plymouth police to a lodging. house, where they found Hild, alias Wait, in company with a man named Laycock. They were in net!, but got up, and were taken to the police station. It had previously been understood that although nominally wanted for the perjury, they were suspected of complicity in the murder of Sarah Jane Roberts, at Harpurhey, Manchester, two men answering to their description having been seen loitering in the neighbourhood of the house where the murder was committed. When taken to the station, and the warrant being read to Wait, he said he supposed they wanted him for the Manchester murder, bat it was all a mare's ne-t, as he had never heard anything about it until Saturday night, when he read it in the papers. Letters in his own handwriting were found on Wait, the writing of which corresponds closely with that of the letter sent to decoy Mr. Greenwood, anl the landlady of the lodging-house where the arrest was made states that she washed a pair of trousers and shirt for Wait. They were stained, but she does not know whether they were blood stains or not. Both the men had tramped down from Manchester to take passage in the Government emigradon ship Queen of Nations, but found that she was filled, and therefore were waiting for the next ship, Silver Eagle, which is shortly to sail for Melborne. The men were both sent to Manchester by the eight o'clock train on Sunday evening, the one in custody and the other under surveillance, nominally as a witness required against Wait. It seems that Wait is a dealer in coal and coke, having a small shop and a horse and cart near Manchester, and that he has had dealings with Mr. Cooper, whose name is well known in connection with the murder case. Laycock is a smithystriker, or something of that sort, near Manchester, and both of thorn disappeared soon after the murder, stating that they were about to emigrate. The original clue of the Manchester police is believed to have been the handwriting of the letter. The particulars are being kept very secret. The men state that it took them eleven days to tramp from Manchester to Plymouth. There is a story as to Wait having endeavoured to entice a girl at Manchester to go with him to Australia under a false name, and stating that he had previously been in the colony for eleven years. The handwriting of the letter sent to ber is said to assemble closely the letter by which Mr. I Greenwood was drawn away from home.  STouw Wartworo.—The following cable message has been received at the London office of the Ncw Fork Herald:—" A disturbance will probably arrive on the British, French, and Norwegian coasts between the 28th and 30th, attended with rain and possibly snow. In the northern districts there will be gales or strong winds, south-east, veering northwest."