A Sheffield paper thus chronicles further proceedings:—
Police-constable David Morris was dispatched to London, by Mr. Jackson, with a view to the identification of the criminal in custody at Newgate.
Morris, who was at one time stationed at Darnall, lived for more than a year in the house directly opposite to that occupied by Charles Peace, and was therefore in the habit of seeing him every day, and frequently several times a day.
Morris had with him a letter from his chief to the director of the Criminal Investigation Department, by means of which he obtained admission to the cell.
At half-past one o’clock a telegram from our reporter was received at this office as follows:—
“St. Martin’s-le-Grand, 1.30. p.m.
“Peace has been further identified by a Sheffield constable, and there is no doubt he is the murderer.”
The telegram, when posted in the window of our publishing department, excited much interest. Shortly after two o’clock the Chief Constable received a telegram from Police-constable Morris as follows:—
“Man in custody is Peace. I am quite positive about his identity.”
All doubt, if any existed, has now been removed. The man, John Ward, the notorious burglar of Blackheath—the man who did all his villainies “single-handed,” and thus no doubt escaped detection for a longer time than he would otherwise have done—is none other than Charles Peace, the murderer of Mr. Arthur Dyson, at Bannercross-terrace, that dark November night two years ago.