The Stockton Examiner, and South Durham and North Yorkshire Herald. — 1879-01-25 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE RE-CAPTURE,  The two warders and one of the passengers hurried back to the spot where Peace had fallen, and found him lying by the side of the line in an unconscious condition. Blood was flowing freely from a severe wound on the head. Ile was carried back to Shirenaks Station, and a slow train corning up ahnost immedia•ely, he was put in the guard's van and taken on to Sheffield.  A strong body of police met the train by which Peace was expected, and the excitement that was produced when they found in the cornlartment nothing but a rug, a bag which had belonged to one of the warders, and the offioar's sword, may be readily imagined. The news that he had escaped spread rapidly, and wee soon conveyed to the police court, where the magistrates had taken their seats, where the lawyers engaged were in their places, where Mrs. Dyson was in attendance ready to be cross-examined, and where the members of the Town Council had taken up places tipocially reserved for them. Meanwhile the slow train arrived i Sheffield. Peace was carried in an almost insensible condition into the prisoner's van and driven hurriedly to the police station. Here two medical men were in attendance upon him, arid they certified that he was suffering from concussion of the brain. He was placed in a .11 in a very distressed condition, lie vomited several times, and was unable to take the brandy that was offered tc hint. After a while, however, he revived, and was then unwilling to take any stimulants, but they were forced upon him, and, after a time, he readily took brandy. It is believed that he will recover in a few days.  Never in the annals of Sheffield crime has any CIISP called forth such universal interest as the prosecution of Charles Peace, the notorious Blackheath burglar who is being tried for the murder of Arthur Dyson, civil engineer, of Banner Cross, but never was the excitement so intense as on Wednesday, owing to the fact that he had made his escape from the railway carriage in which he was being brought down from leaelon under the escort of two warders from Pin. tonville Prison. The statement was at first hardly credited, for although the man's audacity is well nigh proverbial, if nit a h iusehold word, it was scarcely believed that he could have eluded the vigilance a his keepers in the way described. The Central Police 011iees ho ame aa densely packed and as excited as at MI electioneering meeting, and when the police confessed that the desperado had indeed made good his mampe, a tremendous hue and cry was the result, the town hall being besieged for at least an hour before the time appointed for the resumption of the case. it scents that as the train was approaching Shireoaks Peace made a clear bolt through the window, and he would have got beyond the reach of the unsuspecting curlers had it not been tlmt his feet i.aught in the bittern of the door, and although he was immediately seized he still struggled violently to get on to the line, the result beim, that hi head received a terrible gash against the sides of the carriage. It was not before the train had travelled two miles that he was again in the safe custody of the officers. A heavy fog prevailed at thy time, and as that part of the country was familial to the, prisoner he might have given the authoritie, each greater trouble than may be easily imagined had it not been for the accident referred to.—The Stipendiary announced on the assembling of the court that the prisoner had received such injuries that it was absolutely impossible to proceed with the cane a present, and that it would therefore be necessary to adjourn the further examination for eight days. Tle• Announcement was received with loud hooting an., hisses outside the Town Hall, and it was some time before the crowd dispersed.