The Haslingden Gazette. — 1913-12-27 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

THE MAN."  DRAMATIC SCYENE AND ADMISSION.  DISUUSSED CRIME AND HIS OWN.  George Sumner, the man wanted for the murder of Miss Catherine Bradfield, was arrested in a Liverpool lodging house at midnight on Saturday..  The incidents whiah led up to the capture as well OA the actual fact were as dramatic as the  crime itself.  According to a young Australian who has spent the 1a44 week with Sumner, the alleged murderer had felt so secure in his disguise that he had made no attempt ito escape either public or polioo observation. •  With his thisk eyebrows shaved,. so that they had oompletety altered his facial appearance, and with an eyeshade and spectacles to add to his changed appearance, Sumner had spent his days in walking the streets and some of his nights in visiting picture palaces. In the streets he had: drawn attention to the newspaper 'placards announcing- the hue and cry for himself, in the picture halls he had seen his photograph thrown on the screen without the slightest trace of alarm, and in the lodging-house where he was staying he had joined in the common conversation about a crime which had stirred the whole country. . , When they find him! it will be at the bottom of the canal or the Pea, he repeatedly told those he was with.  But if he escaped the vigilance of the detectives —and once two members of the forte were actually speaking to a girl within a yard or two of Sum! ner who continued to talk gaily although aware of their identity—his frequent appearances in the street were to prove his downfall. Someone who knew him well recognised his walk. He was almost tempted to believe he was mistaken by the cleverness of the disguise, but he took the precaution of following Sumner to his lodging-house and then informing the police. At midnight Police-Sergeant Morgan visited the wanted man's hiding place, and there, refusing to believe his story that his name was Albert King, and that he was a dockyard labourer, he suddenly confronted with the accusation, You are George Sumner." And Sumner,. recognising the uselessnetu, of further denial, replied simply, lam the man." Apparently the courage which had sustained him as "Albert King" failed him as George Sumner, for, the hooting of the little crowd, which quickly gathered caused him to finish the last few yards to the police station at a running pace. What Sumner's ultimate plans were can only be gathered from his conversations with his colonial companion. This man, not aware, of cetirl,c, of the identity of Sumner, had told him he was waiting for a boat to take him hack to Australia, and Sumner had expressed h-is intention of going with him.  told him I *as looking for another ship, ;and I said he could go with me. I was anticipating hously the arrival of an Australian boat, and we could have left Liveapool together. On Saturday night Sumner was loitering about the lodging-house for ECMC time 'before going in. Then we went upstairs to our bedroom. 'Sumner was' partially undressed when the manager came up and said to him, "You are wanted down below.' This would be shortly before midnight. And I said to him, 'Doni, bother ( to put your things on; go down just as you are.' 'Sumner said, 'No, I had better dress.' and he put on the clothes which he had taken. off. He went downstairs, and was away about a quarter of an hour. Then the manager came to me and asked who my mate. was. I told him that his name was Albert King. I did not hear until later that he had been taken away by the polies."