The Bradford Murder.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5436, 28 March 1889, Page 4

The Bradford Murder.

It is highly satisfactory to learn that the four policemen whose evidence in the Cumberland burglary case le I to the conviction and incarceration of the two pi or men Brannigan and Murphy for nearly nine years mo to be put on their trial for perjury. Tlio custom of first Inciting n suspected person up and then procuring or manufacturing testimony against him or her seema far too common in the pr.ivinces. Orv> had a sinking in3Uuicr- of this at Bradford laat weuk in the case ; f the inn der and mutiliiUion of the H'tK b.»y Gill. Tho taut person seen wi'h the child was the milkman Barrett, who was very fond of him, and mado a great pet of him. Prima facie, it seemed gnitesqiuto suspect the good natured, kindly man with the motiveless murder < f his friend; and no people- were more astounded than the boy's parents when Barrett was arrested. The police however, puts on immando frills, talked vaguely of 'incriminatory discoveries' and 'dam »gino admissions,' at d absolutely obtained two remands, in the intervals of which they tried their hardest to vamp up some sort of evidence against the unfortunate fellow Nevertheless tho car. > broke down completely, and IB<»rr.ttt, after a nionth'3 anjust imprisonment, was discharg- d. The soitti^ißc manner in which the mutilation of the lad Gull appears to have been conducted, combined with the fact that certain organs are missing and the mysterious fjsbion in which the criminal vanished into thin air, has led to many good judges opining that Mack the Hipper' committed tho Bradford murder. One thing is curtain, i.e., the Whitechapel detectives and tho Bradford police are equally at sea ; also that the non-discovery of theae wretches is leading to an epidemic of assassination, the lower classes no longer superstitiously believing the old saw 'murder will out.'