The Express. — 1849-08-27 (London, England)

THE BERMONDSEY MURDER.  The Sunday papers contain accounts of several captures having been mad: of p' room whose misfortune it is to re'amble Morning, either in reality, or in the opinion of the over-vigilant persons who have caused them to be taken into custody. During Saturday a report was currently circulated that M mniug had been seen in the neighbourhood of Clerkenwell ; and the following notice was lent to the several policerations in London and its suburbs :—" N DiTitlsll of Police. —Mrs. Whitehorse, of the it duty's Read, Rodney-street, Peeitonville, reports that a man, supposed to be Manning, called at her house, and, after taking some refreshment, ask. d to look at the newspaper. Whilst looking at the paper. the man was Been to tremble, and appeared agitated, Mrs. Whitehorn thinks the man was about 40 or 45 years of age, bloated face. curly hair, whiskers shaved off, large mouth, and something the matter with his eyes. He was dressed in • black frock court, CFO% bar trowsers, with • stripe down the side." Immediately upon the receipt of this intelligence, men in plain clothes were sent all over the division, to make inquiries whether anyone elm had seen the party alluded to. At o'clock on Saturday night a communication reached the Observer office, to the effect that Manning had been I taken in • beer-shop, the General Picton, in the Caledonian-road, Pentonville. It was stated that he was taken while siting in the parlour over • pint of ale, by two of the demise polite, who had followed him, so the statement ran, from Deptford to Greenwich, and from theme to this side a the water. And it was stated that he refused, at first, to accompany them ; but that he ia"tirmately proceeded to the station-house. Ile was described as weary-looking and treatises/shed, and it was said of him that he had exchanged his ale foe " halt and halt" at the entrance of the police in pursuit of Idia. Immediately inqui r r was made at Scotland-yard, and at the stalion.houses in the vicinity, including the head office station in Bow-street, but at half-past one o'clock no intelligence of his capture had reached either, and the statement to that cflea was not credited by the authorities. The same paper states that yesterday morning considerable excit. merit existed in the neighbourhood •f the Bagnigge Wells road station, where a great crowd had collected on bearing that a prisoner, supposed to be Manning, had Men brought there, and was still detained. It was satisfactorily ascertained that he was not Manning ; but being intoxicated, and having a considerable sum of money on his person, he was kept in custody at the station. Some most important information was collected in the course of yesterday by Burton. That officer felt satisfied, from the quantity of blood that must have flowed from the wounds in the head of the deceased, that some of it must have been spirted over the dress of the murderess; and, accordingly, he proceeded to examine a quantity of old apparel at Mr. Bainbridge's, which had been removed from Miniver-place, and amongst it he found a pled morning wrapper. Oa examination, he found, particularly on the cape, large patches of blood, partly washed out. The deem had been washed in differint parts and rough-dried :it was instantly recognised by Mr. Massey as an article which Mrs. Manning used to wear. 'rem a subsequent discovery which he made it is quite evident that the deceased bad had a violent atruegle with Manning, for Burton has found a black cloth waistcoat torn from the left arm across to the breast and then down to the end, the manner in which it is torn evidently bespeaks it to be the result of • violent struggle. Tre .sisteeet Mr. Massey has also identified to be one which Manning used to wear.