The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-11-08 00:00:00

THE CONVICT MULLER.

When the Sheriffs left Moller's cell on Monday
morning after informing him that they had fixed Mon-
day, the 14. h of November, for his execution, he for the
first time showed symptom" of his diesanefaction with
the verdict of toe jury. He once or twice sait he had
leen coetioted epee false evileure,and implied that the
eeideeevi to which he referred h• 1 be n adduced by some
of the wii nesse' for the defence.. From this inwneut
the confiience which up to the time of the judge's sum-
ming up had so charmiteri•ed the dome...mar of the pri-
bOular, •1...11.1 to tialie po.muá.n of him again, and in
ti•• worm of the a/ tone on he empressed an sewneet desire
to see Mr. Beard, Ids solicitor. He afterwards lined
the day mince), ell), in reading, and pivot sounder
through the night than he diil the two previous Dishes.
On Tueolsy Muller amen.' completely restored to
hin wowed self eion.neure. end be appeared lass anxious
and looked decidedly better than at nny other lime
since hie apprehension. In the m .rning he, for the
second time, ex pre•od • wish to see Mr. Beard. This
fact was oommunicsted to that gentlemen, who with
the utmost madams., and at some persosal imes
venison., sought to gratify the wish of the wretched
man. He proceeded to Netted. at three o'clock
in the afternoon, and wan comhoted by Mr. Jonas, the
governor, to the gloomy cell in which the primmer,
&Larded night and day, he doomed to pans
t • remainder of hie abed este...nos. When the
door of hit sell was opened he was mated on
the wooden bench inside. He evidently did not at that
moment expect to see Mr. Besrd, so suditeoly was
struck with an expremion of pleasure and surprise. He
hot•ietly eitende bind to him welcome visitor, and
eiruntly thanked hon for what had been done cm hie
behielf Ile was attired in the mane clotliss in which he
was tried, his hair was carefully brushed. and be ap-
peared otherwise to have bestowed 1101110 roles in &toe-
ing Mins If. He was allowed to less into • strong
roo where in the (Remove, although not altowither
in the hewing, of Mr. Jonas, be 000ver-ed
with Mr. &AM for about twenty minutes. The
purport of the primeer's conversation did not ezactly
transpire, bet sulSoe it to say it wax neither' statement
nor the " confession of his crime" which oonteso-
'serene' have suggested the probability of hie making.
On the contrary, it wan rather • reiteratioe of les
innocenoe. and his,persistenee in the nuesertion that the
hat found in the carriage never belonged to him. He
complained also about the evidence of some of the
witnesses, denouncing that of one in particular as
almost entirely false. He subsequently ahook hands
•ith Mr. Baird, who promised to visit him at any time
and whenever Mulls: ebbed to me him. This afforded
bile evident gratiAgation, which he acknowledged in
repeated thank..
HOW AND WHIMS DID MULLIN FISK Mere MS,
811100111-- The London correspondent of an frith peper
endeavours to throw some light upon mutate the chief
mystery of the North London Railway murder, viz.,
how and where did Muller first meet or see his us-
fortunate victim. The correspondent says :—" The ea-
deavour to ett•blish an alibi was even more fatal ;
for it not only failed in its ietended aim, but it bag
astually supplied a very prubahle clue in cementing bow
it happened that Mr. linage should have been singled
out for the murder by Mailer I Ti,, a/CM tried to prove
thst on the night when the murder was committed
Muller wan at Vamall-rood, Catuberwell, at a niornent
when it would have been impossible for him to have
committed the crime me the line. But it failed entirely
in its most essential element -precision of time. Moller
went to Vowed road to me his "sweetheart," but she
was out, and he went away. By the statement of his
own witnesses there was ample time lor him to have
gone there and returneil to the Fenchurehotreet Station
before the train ejected. The woman of the boom tried
to 51 the moment of his visit so that it should be
conclusive of the alibi, but the could adenine nothing
eitablishing its abeolute arnotraey, and she was never
asked anything at all shout it, nor knew that the visitor
was the man suspected, until two months after It had
happened. Precision, therefore, eat out of the question,
and without it the alibi failed. But during her es-
mnindion a eignifieunt fact was elicited Her house is
very near the Camberwell gate. Muller, being lame,
arrived, sobs had himself asserted, by omnibus ; it is,
therefore, most likely that he would return by one.
But on this very road run the omnibuses by me of which
Mr. Brier was treselli ig home, and at anout the some
hour. It be, consequently, by no means improbable
that Muller sad Mr. 'trigs travelled together a the
Fame vehicle, it is certain that they erne d at the rens
church-street Station, which was In the way home of
both, at about the nu!' time. It in the attempt to
prove the alibi which funiiihm this fed, and ammesie
the possible resonates between the murderer and his
salute at a period much anterior to law bed hitherto
been ausisected. Had it been known to the prosecution
the most importent use would have ben nude of it,
but, of course, it was studiously coneealed.
edict the trio' snie movie' on of Frans nigher for the
mnider of Mr. Briggs, the German Leg 1 Peon:Won
Society, who, noterishatateding the verdict of the jar.,
still bold to their belief of the prisoner's inuoionee in
re•pect of this crime, h•ve continued their inventive, ions
▪ h unremitting a-iiduii 7. The discover., th-y have
mode the commutes hare rietermini d to lay before t •
public in the form of • pomphiet which is now being
prepared, and which *ill shortly he protium&
The following iwident, the full particulan of which
have been aacerteii,el by recent inquiries, and whiele,
it is considered, ham a connection with the murder of
Mr. Briggs that demands proper investigation, will, in
all probability, have • principal position in the state-
ment white! will be issued by the German committee. It
is seated that shout two o'clock on the morning of the
10th of July last, • few hours after the communion of
the murder, • Mr Poole, who reside, Ii Edmonton, was
in bin bedroom when • panel (as it afterwerds proved)
was thrown against his house, breaking at.. of his
windows. This peace', it would mew had been thrown
from a cab, which was passing down the road,
away from London. Mr. Poole, with the view of getting
sowc elyment for the elating,' done, immediately
permed the cab, which, after • lengthen, he overtook,
Then were lour men inside. It is said that, as far as
could be seen, there was no appearanos of ounsiderable
disorder about thee men. One of them wet without
Isis hat, and with • handkerchief bound round his
bead. Mr. Poole was told hurriedly that the handle
ow thrown for • lark; but that be would be paid, and
the cab drove on. The parcel which had been thrown
against Mr. Poole's window was found, oa being ex-
*mind, ho contain • pair of trouser.. Later on the
Illeftlay morning, at about eleven o'clock, Mr. Poole
saw the same cob returning toward London, end noei.ed
that there were then two of tininess men is it, and this
1i... Mr. Poole was accompanied by ass or two respect-
able inhabitants of the neighbourhood. lii. under-
stood that the German Society have sweteeded in dis-
covering three, if not all four, of these men; and that
they are in pomewion of the trousers, which are found
tote stained with blood, which has been sacertained to
be human. The committee are said to be also in posses-
sion of other evidences which they consider of the
highest importance as bearing on this case, the
complete investigation of width they desire to
promote.
Gil Wednesday evening, at a meeting of the German
Legal Protection Society, at Seyd's Hotel, Finsbury-
square, London. the terms of a memorial to Sir George
Grey were discussed cod resolved upon. Mr. Lather woe
I. the chair, and nearly all the members of the society
attended, among those Ferment being Dr. Kinkel, Dr.
Beigel, the Baron von Erlanger, Mr. A. Dopler, and Mr. Beard, solicitor for the prisoier. The chairman
said the murder on the North London Railway was still
• mat mystery to them all. They could not say the
trW had been any o.her then • fair one; and they were
not assembled to criticise the conduct of the jury in
arriving at the verdict of guilty on such evidence as WY
submitted to them. Bet nobody who held • belief even
in Mailer's guilt attempted to deny that the effair was
very mysterious. Mr. Beard stated the result of his
interview with counsel, and said that, without pledging
themselves to the precise character of the meenonal,
they might safely agree to petition on the grounds of
not being natiefied with the evidence. The draft was
then read by Mr. Beard. and was criticised in a very
animated discussion. The document wax, in effect, •
mikes of the speech of Mr. &Owed Perry, and im-
ported no novel facts or areundesto Tha meeting
seemed generally to be of opinion that a remit, ...aid
be eMicited, on the ground thee; endenee not produesd
at the trial was in the hands of the committee. It was
said that, independent of the Edniontoo story, glum
above, several facts of importance had transpired 'Pleie
Baron von Erlanger stated that all journeymen tallow
had " pasebble," aerooeting for tip ir time and
conduct; and Moller's book was one which more him •
character above that of his fellow-workmen. Tbe same
speaker said that Muller nod minutely detwibed the man
who sold him the watch at the docks; nod on inquiries
being made of the dock ofiloiale, they did that tech a m•II
was one of the four pedlars well known about the place.
but that he bed not been seen sine, about Use time of
the murder. They made wareh for him, and towel
that he had changed his residence severe' times; and
when they at hot discovered him, he gam a very
hesitating and unsatisfactory acooest of his dealiaga—
Dr. Kinkel said that the "pass-book" in question
should certainly be put forward in evidence. It did not
merely testify to ch racier in • way usually valuable in
procuring ndtigation of sontame ; it was • direct proof
that Muller was not the kind of man to oonunit en
atrosiou• a deed —The Chairman made • statement in
corroboration of that which related to Holler's purchase
of the eretelh lie (the thairen•n) had been visieed by
a ;tenon who for tweedy. yeen peat has been familiar
with people about the docks, and who came to him to
say thet watchcs were often sold by pedlers in that
vicinity. Hs asked his visitor to glee bits some de-
mriptioces of these pedlars; end accordingly he wrote
oa four separate pieese of paper four several soments,
one of which exacely tallied with Mniler's own. Mr.
licher thee desired his informant to mark that paper
with • ones, aad the etWer•Stiall he made in ri ply wee,
" It is strange you should ask me hi mark thee paper
for it relates to the only me of the four men who.. I
have mimed for some time past." The decision
of the meeting was to alter the tenor of the memorial
In soon a way as to petition for time, in which the
value of this sew evidences may he tested.

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