The Sun. — 1845-03-10 (London, England)

KILLED.—By the extraordinary exertions of the police, the stick, of which some mention has been already made as having been usually carried by the prisoner, Thomas locker, has been at length discovered, and in a most remarkable manner. It will be recollected that on the post mortem examination of the body the surgeon gave it as his opinion that the wounds upon the head of the deceased had been produced by some blunt and not very heavy instrument. A shoe-maker's pincers found in the prisoner's room was at first supposed to be the weapon, but the surgeon thought it a most unlikely one. He thought a stick more probable. Inquiry was accordingly directed to the habits of the accused, and it was ascertained from the evidence of his father and brother that, up to about three weeks before the date of Mr. Delarue's murder, he had usually carried a large and rather heavy yellow walking-stick, which he said he had left behind him at the house of some friend. The police, however, thought it by far more likely that it had been secreted in some convenient spot until its services might be required, and accordingly every hedge and trench, and place, about the neighbourhood of the fatal spot has been examined, but to no purpose. On Thursday evening. however, Inspector Shackell, of the detective police, received an intima tion that a young man in the employment of Mr. Rudd, a poulterer in the New-road. had found a large yellow walking-stick, covered with blood, secreted in the herbage at the side- of one of the bridges in the Regent's Park. InSpector Shackell went instantly to the person indicated, and at once received the stick and the particulars of its diecovery. Strange as it may appear, as an instance of apathy in forwarding %the pursuit of justice, this young msn had actually found the bloody instrument on the morning of the Saturday following the perpetration of the murder, and although the entire public of the three kingdoms have been ever since aware of the importance of such a fact being made known, he haesuffered himself (it is said) to be dissuaded by his father From coming forward or giving any information. The information received by the inspector proved. to be in all respects unusually correct. The stick had been thrust into the rank herbage or underwood close by the bridge in the Regent's-park, not far from Primrose-hill. Inspector Shackell lost.no time in waiting on the father and brother of the accused, to whom he showed the stick, which they at once identified as the one usually carried by Thomas locker, and the same of which he spoke when he asserted that he had left it at the house of a friend. The inspector then waited on Mr. Rawlinson, the magistrate, at Marylebone Police- court, to whom he privately communicated his important discovery, as it cannot come before the public In the ordinary course of proceeding until Tuesday next, when the prisoner will be brought up for further examination, and most probably be finally committed. With regard to the reports in circulation that there are other persons suspected of having been accomplices of Rocker in the foal transaction, there is not the slightest foundation for them. The police are solely endeavouring to complete the chain of evidence against him, and they have no suspicion that he had any accomplice.  (From a Sunday Paper.)