THE MURDERER SULLIVAN IN ENGLAND.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 250, 21 October 1874, Page 4

THE MURDERER SULLIVAN IN ENGLAND.

(From the Otago Daily Times, Oct. 16.) By the San Franciaco mail, fnll information has been received regarding the passage home, and the doings in London of tbe notorious Sullivan, of Maopgatapu celebrity. Sullivan left Auckland in the ship Hindostan, for London,, nnder tbe assumed name of Clarke: He wore a flaxen wig andl' -moustache, but, notwithstanding his disguise, he was recognised. On the second day after his departure from Aackland, Sullivan was recognised by one of the passengers, a medical gentleman, and also by a lady passenger. The lady bad a photograph of tbe Maungatapu murderers — Sullivan, Levy, Burgess, and Kelly — and was confident that the man on board was no other than Sullivan. The disguise of tbe flaxen wig and moustache was perceived; and its detection confirmed the belief of those wbo recognised him. Whe^a it became known tbat Sullivan waa ~on board, a feeling of fear and inaecdrity prevailed, and there was gr^t . exc^^ement. The passengers strongly urged the captain to incarcerrateihimior,the voyage. When charged hy the captain with being Sullivan, the j Mi.o_tga.apu murderer, be became quite indignant, denied tbat be was, and threatened to bring an action on his landing in England for defamation of character against the parties 9 who had matUUVee with what he was pleased to term bis "good name." The passengers .were oot satisfied with these protestations,- regarding them as a piece of "--ounce, and reiterated their request to the captain to bave Sullivan imprisoned. We do not know if the captpip actually promised to take him into custody, but he proceeded to take steps, jor, imprisoning him. On this becoming, known to Sullivan, he boldly went to the captain and told him that if he arrested him, he did so at his own peril,. denied that he was the man they represented him to be, and that if he arrested him, be (Sullivan) would bring a charge against bim on bis arrival in Lobdon • /or- doing so. Sullivan was also'recogn.sed by a sailor on board, bot this circumstance was not known tilL^ibe; close of the voyage. This sailor badbeeG imprisoned in Dunedin for Weeks for deserting his. vessel at '^oxi Chalmers. On account of. either threats or promises from Sullivan he said nothing about the identification unlit* after Sullivan bad arrived in London'.' 'Several times during the voyage thecal eeugerj? ; aud, crew were almost in a state of mutiny at Sullivan being at targe, they having no doubt on the' poijat. that be was the Nelson murderer. However, though not placed under arrest, a rigid surveillance was kept ovefhim, and tbe captain seems to have dont> ; alj he could consistently with not exposing himself, to an action at law. On arrival at Penzance, Cornwall, where the pilot boat intercepts homewafdj^ound Vessels, a number of passengers left the vessel by train for London, staying in that city till the arrival of the Hindostan in the docks wite'tHy.? luggage. Sullivan wanted to be landed at Penzance — saying that fee should be allowed to do as the other passengers had done, Tbe captain refused. Sullivan demanded as a right to be landed, saying that he was a free subject, and threatened tbe captain with prosecution for illegally detaining him. The "captain, no doubt stung by the way UF.which he had been talked to by the passengers on tho voyage, was determine^ not it* let Sullivan land untill the detectives Jaad eeen bim. Accordingly he told him that his (Sullivan's destinajjpnf was London not Penzance, and tbat he could leave the ship when he arriv ; efl , -at hi_ destination and not betore. ' A telegram was sent from Peuzance to London. Tbe result of the telegram was that on the arrival of the vessel at Graveseud several persfins known to the detectives from. Scotland Yard were in attendance, and bn arrival in tbe East India Docks other detectives appeared on the scene. Sullivan was wary, and would jnot give the police an excuse for arresting him; and seems to have landed witb some money in his pocket. So much for the voyage. As to bis doings after landing, the following facts are from a source wbich is strictly reliable: — The detectives, knowing tbe man they had to deal witb, deputed a female spy specially to watch him. Suspicions as an old gaolbird like Sullivan might be expected to be, .^bie seems to have thrown him off his guard, The female accosted him after be had left the vessel and was passing through the docks, and entered into conversation with him. Tbe conversation resulted iv her offering to conduct faim to lodgings, sbe remarking thatf, observing bim to be a stranger sbe would help him in this- way. Sullivan accepted ;hej; offer. After be took lodgings, and during the afternoon, he went but to view the metropolis. The ceietotlvegf followed him wherever he went. Observing that he was dogged he took other lodgings, but the detectives also watched him to these. He shifted about to various parts of London, the police always keeping a eharp eye oo him. Prior to the San Francisco matt leaving he wbb lodging at s coffee-house kept by a female. He had informed; members of the Detective Force that, he intended marrying and settling down. That be had some such intention was to be seen from tbe fact tbat be and the proprietress of the coffee-house, whenever they took thai, walks abroad, always went in company. He bas. 'been seen with her at the Crystal PJace, tbe "British Museum, ' Aldershot,' and :t the Hiiutfes isi' Parlia-

ment, on the days they were open to public inspection. One of the passengers recognised him, in company with the female referred to, in one of the stalls at no less a place than the Italian Opera. The passenger who • saw him informed the police who the man was, and had his mind satisfied by learning that Sullivan was being watched at the time. Sullivan has expressed his intention to leava for the United States, seeming to be uncomfortable under the rigid surveillance of the London Detective Force. Evidently he thinks England too hot for him. — *- —-«■