MURDER WILL OUT.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 404, 28 October 1884, Page 6

MURDER WILL OUT.

One winter's niglit threes -years ago a police constable was shot dead- -iii ?the course of a struggle with a: Burglar in one of the most crowded, streets of North London,, There ,was. ,a ; idense fog 5 at T the time, and though several wbmen>?and passers bY obtained a glimpse, of the criminal, . he got away, ' and (despite a reward of L2OO for his apprehension) could not be traced. > The police^ were Supposed to hare abandoned ;the. jsea'rch .mldespair,..and most people, haijwhpily forgotten the case, when ,tlie r ©ther iday a man named Qrrock wap, placed jya „ the dock at Bow afreet, arid on, the strength of a chain of circumstantial evidence, wonderfully neat and complete/ charged with the commission of this three-year-old crime. The police had two clues to work upon, viz., a chisel and an old: wideawake hat dropped by %) criminal,? j An expert examined, the former, found the work "rock " scratched on 'tie blade. Phis clearly, was either the . whole pr part of the owner's/ name, for it is the custom of grinders/ when • work, men bring them their chisels: to be sharpened, to, scratch the sender's 'suraame on the; article thus. As, no. , one msworing to the name of VEqct" or 'i E r t l c ? ld be founcl in tlie neighborliood of Dalston the chisel was subjected ;o another searching examination, with ±c result that someone discovered ; th» letter "O "scratched beneath the word liock. This at once set the police on the jw. vive , f or amongst the. most • respectable residents, of the street in which the murder took place was a stajd -and steady youngc; cabinet-maker named 'Orrock " »adea that Orrock ffiSS be aetirely concerned in the murder Aid not at first occur to the authorities; for no bore the reputation of being a strict churchman, a Sunday school teacher; and an industrious worker. Presently, however, evidence closed rouud him. It was found that he had not been at home when the murder took/place, but had arrived after, was without a hat, and with his trousers torn: aa<3 much dishevelled; The police also* discovered tliat a short time- previously Orrock had purchased a revolver and practised with, it by shooting at" some trees, in . Richmond Park. The companion who accompanied the accused on this occasion pointed but the trees to tlie ponce, and after considerable^tronMe;they extracted: three bullets:. •: -which matched exactly with >;the> -balls.- &mnd embedded in the murdered' constable's skull. .Aiter this QVrock's companions on the night of the murder were : hunted up, and. finding the 'truth known admitted that he had, t,olcL them he meant to relieve the Dalston, ".' Chapel of its sacramenta:l plate that' evening. He was canght red:handed ( by ;i tlie unforttinato constable, and in the; course: of tho struggle fired his^ revolver -afc; him;'- The third shot entered the. pblieemafi's brain This case ; (not ; a very !% reH,arka|>le;p)ne in itself) is prmcipally Mi mterest ng .^catiso of the great, length of t'inf^rft has taken to wort up, i>nd thelperaeverance ofthopohce, ;r .. xr <;: 1