“Then I went right away up to Sharrow, and crossed over quite close to Bannercross, down into Hesclehall (Ecclesall) road, turned down towards Sheffield, and crossed through Broomhall Park, into Havelock-square.
“I that night did a house over at the corner of Havelock-square. They was away from home. I got about £6 in money and a lot of jewerley.
“The watchman on the beat fancied he heard something in the house, but I saw him stop the sergeant when he came his round, and I got away backwards. By certain papers I brought out of the house they called them Barney Swincourse (Barnascone). I went to Ely (Heeley) Railway Station, and from Ely to Nottingham.
“At Nottingham I done a big tailor and draper establishment and took a lot of overcoats.”
It was at the last-named place, as he declares in the above statement, that he met with the woman who played so conspicuous a part in Peckham.
Mrs. Thompson’s name was Susan Gray, and she was lodging at a house where Peace had apartments.
It is said that she was married to a commercial traveller named Bailey, but discarded him for Peace; and it was while at Nottingham that a detective surprised them in the night.
There had been a robbery in the town, and the officer was in pursuit of the thief. Peace induced the constable to go down stairs, stating that he was a pedlar, and would bring down his pack for examination. He escaped, half dressed, through the window; and the officer, after waiting for some time, returned to find the bird flown.
Peace afterwards talked of this with great glee.
He afterwards returned to Hull with Mrs. Thompson, and six months subsequently to the murder at Bannercross had the audacity to take apartments with a police-sergeant in Albany-road, near to Hengler’s Circus. Peace and his female companion were the front parlour lodgers, and as the sergeant kept other lodgers, mainly “professional,” Peace was quite at home, and the life and soul of the company.