We came up to the warders as they got to Peace, who was lying by the side of the up line about a mile from Kineton-park station in the direction of Shireoaks.
At that point the line runs almost on a level with the surrounding country.
Peace appears to have jumped out of the window on the right hand side of the train, and when the slipping off of his boot released him from the grasp of the officer he fell in the six foot between the up and down metals.
The velocity he received from the motion of the train then rolled him over, and he must have fallen where we found him, or have crawled off the metals of the up line.
He was lying on his back, and was to all appearance unconscious.
Blood flowed freely from a large gash over his right ear, and he did not speak.
Just then a slow train came up from Shireoaks for Sheffield, and that was stopped. We lifted Peace into the guard’s van, and laid him on the floor.
He did not say anything about his attempt to escape, but merely said that he was cold, and asked for a rug to be put over him. He was brought to Sheffield.
The people in the train were wonderfully excited, and had seen the struggle from their carriage windows.
After Peace’s arrest frequent references were made to the large black rimmed spectacles which he had worn with so much ostentation for the purpose of concealing his identity.