PEACE’S CAPTOR.
The proposed testimonial to Police-constable Robinson, the officer who captured Peace, prospered very satisfactorily. Subscriptions were received at the “Royal Hotel,” Haymarket; the “Star,” High-street; the “Exchange,” Exchange-street; the “Elephant,” Norfolk-street; “Bull’s Head,” Sheffield-moor; “Old Star Vaults,” Old Haymarket; “Royal Hotel,” Highfield; “Little Angel,” Westbar; “Hen and Chickens,” Castle-greeen; “Queen,” Sheaf-street.
Mr. George Dawson, a local phrenologist, sent the following letter:—
“Those who have or have not had the satisfaction to see Charles Peace are naturally desirous of seeing the man who was chiefly instrumental in capturing the great rascal, and who had so narrow an escape from being murdered by him.
“As many have asked me if I had seen him, the following brief sketch may be interesting:—Mr. Robinson is a good-looking, quiet, pleasant genial fellow, not unlike the Prince of Wales—has his type of features. He is rather florid, with light brown hair and beard. He is very finely developed physically, plump and muscular, with sufficient of adipose tissue to make him round in form and easy in manner.
“The bony and fibrous systems are less high in him than the vital and muscular. He is about 39 or 40 in. round the chest, 5 ft. 7½ in. high. He looks only a little man, but I am told he weighs 13 stone. He has a small head, measuring 21½ about, and his brain is mostly developed in the practical and observing and the moral faculties.
“He is quite firm and independent, but lacks self-esteem; has no desire or ability to show off—is very retiring. He is steady, cool, and rather harmonious, but has only moderate destructiveness and combativeness. Hence he is mild, kindly, and genial, the ‘knotty’ and ‘quarrelsome’ points being weak.
“He would hurt even a burglar only in self-defence. He is in almost every respect—bodily and mentally—the very opposite of Peace, though this is not the time to give a phrenological description of that gentleman. Sheffielders are pleased with the captor of their chief ruffian—and he is pleased with the heartiness and kindliness of Sheffielders.”
EXTRAORDINARY COMMUNICATIONS.
Running away from Bannercross on the night of the murder, Peace accidentally or intentionally dropped a small bundle of notes and letters.