Lefroy Mapleton, the man suspected of the murder of Mr.
Gold on the Brighton Railway, was captured on Friday week. As we expected, he had remained in London, taking lodgings with a poor widow, named Bickers, in Stepney, at 6s. a -week. He gave himself out as an engraver, and although lie always pulled down the blinds, he was not suspected, 'until from want of money he telegraphed to his friend, Mr. Seale, to send him his "wages." The widow, alarmed by his apparent poverty and the telegram, and his appearance in a coat belonging to a brother-lodger, sent her daughter to inquire at the office where Mr. Seale worked. She saw a clerk, to whom she told her story, and the clerk, suspecting the truth, at once informed the police, making a careful bargain beforehand for the reward. Lefroy was accordingly arrested, and at once admitted his identity. Lefroy, who is only twenty-one, still denies the murder ; but the evidence against him thickens, as his possession of a pistol can now be proved, and the testimony .of the woman who saw two men struggling as the train passed Horley has been confirmed. That disposes of the theory of the third man originally set up by the accused, and the railway clerk proves that only four first-class tickets were sold, of which two, taken .by two ladies, have been accounted for. The prisoner will be committed by the magistrates of Cuckfield, and probably tried at the Central Criminal Court, as the local feeling against him is very great.
