The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-11-01 00:00:00

TRIAL OF FRANZ MULLER.

Frans Muller, charged with the wilful murder of Mr.
Thomas Briggs, on the North London Railway, on the
night of Saturday, the 9th July, was arraigned at the
bar of the Old Court, at the Central Criminal Court,
before Out Lord hid Baron and Mr. Baron )(Artie, on
Tbursdsy morning. Crest Rai the eicitennot on UlO
part of the public to Oven ecinniojon to Cr court for
the purpo-e of heating tbo. Proceeding, that the sherdis
had been compktely inenlated cliii applie.tiooe for
adusiaeion. 11w., pimply impoetibl,. howeser, to grant
more than a few ands for admission, and in orchr to
prevent any ineiJione disinction, the sheriffs very
wisely reuted to grant any cods, sod left tie public to
get in as best ill.). could. The Old Court is no small
and inconvenient that only about • hundred persons can
And accommodation, and this in apart of the court that
commands little more than • view of the learned judge
presiding at the trial. A number of pawns aseenabled
about tight o'clock with the hope that they might get
rewarded by obtaining an entrance, but they soon found
that they would gain nothing by their pains. The
police—a lens force of whom were on duty—were obdu-
rate to all entreaties, having rennet d Aron orders that
one should be admitted until after the arrival of the
eberiffe. Even the revresentstires of the pross mild
only be present one at a time from each of the daily
paper., rests being Waned among,t them for reporter,
for the New York prom It is due to the ?ohne moth°.
lilies to say that their arrangements were ea good as
pottible. The itssiectors on duly did not leen the
(radon of the haslet:ow to the inteligence of the con-
stables themselves; but an hour or iso before the Lord
Chief Baron took hie seat they put the men through a
sort of drill in their particular poets. Up till ten
minutes pad nine o'clock the reporters were the only
;tenons who bed been admin. d, when oue or two
manietrates made their appearance on the Bench to see
that the arrangement' for his lordship were complete.
Orders had apparently been given that the learned
judge ehould not have to complain of the fitting. of the
eourt, as workmen were tamed up till nearly the lee;
moment in seeing that the windows, Be., were in proper
crier.

The mooe outai,la the court was of. remarkable dew
oriptinn. Tha rmh to the tOIIPTILI approaches wore,
perhapr, without precedent ; esperieneed officer, of this
oitT police-force derlara that "Palmer's trial warn nothing
to it." _ .

As there were no solicitors, dirks, or witnesses ela-
psed in any other cause permitted to he present, there
ens • Dry •mouot of space at the disposal of the
sheriffs and under•slieriffa, and for this specie there was
seen to be a regular egramlile. The outer door of the
Old Wider, at which the jud,e, the counsel, and the
city arithotities enter, wit guarded by • posse of some
eight or ten of the city polies, and at Um door there
was a sucomaton of demand* for admission from sight
in the teeming. All beer-Wren, or persons known to
the police autiroritiee, were admitted it once; but they
found them* Ives very little adires.ced, for the waned
intr./lee waa guarded by soles' d an 20 policemen, and,
as no one erat admitted beyond thin gate wttlioat first
s odiik up his card to the Under Elheliff, and as the
cards did not come down again very qurckly, great was
the indignation of the crowd of barosters and gentle.
men. The confusion, however, which reign"' in the
yard was nothing compar d eith that in the of
the court. Su far from having effected AM entrance to
the court itself,plumy found them-elves (either from it
than ever. A hundred persons wrest once clamouring
for adiniesion to the Under•Slieriff. Aldermen had sent
their fi ienala with their cards, or with notes' and the
Under-Shen& were perfectly bewildered with the mass
of documents of that kind which were put into their
hands. In aarriition to this there were about twenty
geritleomn of the press, who, according to lir. Under-
Sheriff De Jersey's statement, were wore troublesome
to hint Dein all the rat of the •pplioanta put together.
In theory an excellent arrangement had been made to
arescontoodate the press, but in actual practice it broke
down altogether. In point of feet, instead of there
being one reporter for each piper as arranged, there
were three for some and none for others. The repre-
sentatives of the respective newepapers certainly urged
their Wont with a pertinacity end zeal that nothing
*mild have exceeded, and, in the end, some dozen of
them, who appeared to attend for other than metro-
politan papers, obtained seats in the gallery.
Is the niidit of all thin huatle and oonfu•ion,
the Chief Baron, to whose lot it falls to try the prisoner,
arrived, and the whole crowd were, of course, un•
cevemonioualy thrust aside, while " the judges were
ranged, a terrible show."
A vast number of persons were summoned to be in
attendance as jurymen, both English and foreigners,
and were crowded together in ro.sms contiguous to the
court. When the judge had taken his seat the prisoner
Muller was brought up and placed in the dock. He
had a pale and cares orn appearance, but seemed to be
determined to go through the trial with firmness On
his being p'aelel in the dock, him counsel, Mr. Serjeant
Parry, said that be had looted to be tried by a jury of
Enehahmen ; hut when the narnes of the jury were
called all present in court were challenged one after the
other, on which the order was given to call in the whole
of the panel., bolt foreign and English, sod the court
being already inconveniently oro•ded, the squeezing in
of a dens., body of some 200 persons brought things to
such • erisie that an arrangement had to be made to
cause the stream of jurymen to pam in at one door and
out at another as soon as the requisite number of un-
challenged men was obtained to try the prisoner.
it,. niedlees to may that at far as the public galleries
of the court were concerned, they were filled within
about five minutes after the court was opened, but as
polieenieu were stationed outside to tell the pubic that
the court wort filled, and there era. no chance of admire
lion that day, the peopls for the most part p..-.d on
without making any useless attempt to get in. There
were, however, numerous little knots of persons eagerly
discussing the chances for and against Mull, r, and moat
of the publimhoosee in the neighbourhood app. ared to
be driving a very excellent trade.
The rime was opened by a ormeoh from the Solicitor.
General, who confined himself to a recapitulation of the
forst, of the we. The witnesses examined were :
Davit Buchan, of Peckham, at whom house the deceased
dined on the day of the murder ; Mrs. Buchan, his
wife, and • relative of the doomed ; Thomas
Fishbourn, ticket collector at Fenchurclostrret etatioo.
who examined Mr. Briggs's tiArt just before he got
into the train, and Harry Verney and Sidney Jones,
ratio rot isn't' t rbe carriage at Hackney station, sad saw
the blood after the murder had lass anninitted.
Benjamin Aimee. one of the mused., proved seeing
the blood, and said that 25 minutes intervened
lartween leaving Pentibureb and Hackney seetiebe.
Tiny were 3I minutes going from Bow to Hackney
Station.

Wuhan, Timms, a guard, and Alfred Egan, engine
driver. ..14 that going op the line at 20 minutes put
nine on the night in question. they saw something on
the line near the canal bridge. The engi.e .11.1 pot
back. and they found it to be the body of Mr. Briggs.
HO was not then dead. . . .

Edward Dessau, a police oonstable on duty at Bow,
In consequence of an alarm, want on the lino, and saw
persona carrying a gentleman off the line. He had
aseasseel the distance front How Station to the spot
where the body was found. It WM 1434 yards,and from
the earns spot to Heokney 700 yards.
Mr. Francis Toolmin, Mr. Brere.on, andldr. Thomas
Blooper, medics' practitioner', were emanated as to the
nature of the wounds taebtiog the death of Mr. Briar.
Teen were its or Ida wound, on the heed. some of
them caused by • blunt betrument—tbs others might
be produced by a fall. The skull was ostensively
(matured. Dr. Letheby examined the carriage after
the oocurrence,and found the blood to be human blood,
and gave It as his opinion from the position of the
spots of blood in the various parts of the compartment
that the deceased was sitting on the left h•sel side with
his hoed against the glom, when he received the tint
blow. . .

Mr. John Huth was examined at greet length, but
his evident,/ w.• in no way shaken by the severe eross•
examindion to which he was eabjeeted by Mr. liorjeaut
Purr.
Mr. and Kra Blyth, the prisoner's landlord and
landlady, were examined as to prisoner's move-
ments both before and after the occturenoe, but no
fresh evidence to that we have already given, when
before the magistrates, was elicited.
The other witneetes were Mr. and Mrs. Repoli and
John Rade with whom prisoner had worked with lust
before proceeding to New York. They gave the raw
evidence with regard to the watch, gold dui., bat,
he, as they did before the magistrates end coroner.
The owe was then adjourned.
The trial was resumed on Friday, when John Memory
Maas, who purchased the pawn-tioket of Muller's own
gold watch and chain; Jonathan Mattbewa, the cab.
driver ; tiorgeant Manse; Inspector Tanner; and Mr.
Diganee, batter, who said that the hat found in the
carriage exactly fitted the prisoner. Matthews gave his
evidence in • direct and straightforward manner, and
stood the ordeal of the crose-examination with greet
firmness. &demi Parry then nude an effective
address on behalf of Ms, defence. He said he was ans.
mined in the performance of bis serious duty by the firm
and unshaken conviction that the young man at the
her would have • fair and insmirtial verdict, and he had
the greatest faith in the rightemsner of the verdict
which would be delivered on the evidence which bad
been adduced. Hs pledged himself to demonstrate that,
upon the evidence adduced, supplemented by that *Lich
he should lay before them, they might to acquit the
prisoner at the bar. The jury ought to be as satisfied
with the guilt of the prisoner as though, with their
physical eyes, they had withered the committal of the
net. Hs agreed that circumstantial evidence was of tha
highest possible order, hat only where the chain was
complete, and not • single link Was wanting. There
, were four points on which the prosecution relied. First,
the bat found in the railway carnage ; second, the hat
I found in the prisoner's box; third, the watch found;
and, fourth, the chain. Now, upon all thew points he
should show the jury that the evidence was unmade-
factory and incomplete. It had not been clearly shown
that Muller ever bad • hat like that which was found,
and, even if be tri, that the hat found was his. Kn.
Repels was • principal witness on this point; hut she
had not noticed other persons', while she bad devoted
special attention to Muller'e He bad welshed Mren.
Boesch giving her evidence, and she had given it vehe-
mently, bet he could not conscientiously charge bee with
perjury. With regard to the evidence of Mathews be
thought it was absolutely worthiess as effecting the
pnewier at the bar. He dud not assert that Jonathan
Matthews was the murderer, or • party to this murder
If he did lie should be a disgrace to his profession—foe
It was only known to Him to whom all hearts were
oven, and from whom so soarer were hid, who was the
perpetrator of the murder; but it was nadonbtodly
tree that su.picion pointed her finger at bins, and it was
equally clear that his evidence was of the uthst un-
satidaritory character. His description of the hat was
loose in the extreme, and be only remembered it because
it wu turned up by his duration. But he had told •
different tale now, and bad said that he remognieod tb•
hat In consequence of Muller having lifted it of
constantly on one aide. Matthews said be was certain
that the hat found in the railway carrier was Muller's,
but he admitted that be k.d left kits own hat at
the batter's when be bought another, and that
bat of Matthewa's might have RO4 into the
of some other perm who adeally sonuaresdalt
murder. Tho Inured serjeant commented upon the
iguanas, of Matthews in reference to the murder for
en umay dare, eppeoially whine UV case had a
In all eon. of ways, at the Coroner's court, before the
tre
polies magistrates, end in polies repair, which com-
tt.the literates' of ashram. There was, he eon.
no solid, no snmistekable, grad that this bat
belong to Muller. There might he suspicion ; but sus.

1 Picion, and even strong suspicion, in • cue like the
Present must be cast aside. He (the learned serjeant)
I re,retted to find that Muller had made stetements in-
consistent with the truth. Hews. • vain, boastful man,
I and it could not be denied that in reference
to his own affairs he had said many that's
which were not sttictly true. There was no object in
many of them statement.. He could have had no
teimible object in saying that be was going to America
for the ?deism. Hodgkimon, at £l5O • year, ant he
askatud
.1 Ilea
vain,n„g to plans any reliance upon the state•
meboad W fal young WI ;it could not be
.
proved that the hat in question ever belonged to Mr.
Ihiggs, and he should show them tlat tie fact of the
!pit having leen cut down WIL4 no eeidenee of guilt on
the part of Muller, as he should chow, by evidence he
aliould adduce, that the cutting down of imts in this
ay was a common practice in the second-heed trade.
Then, with regard to the watch and chain, Muller had
to contend against the fact that he had told untruths
about them. His posecs.ion of the watch and chain
was eert•inly a mystery, bat there were many mysteries
in the world which would never be cleared up. No
doubt in buying the watch and chain at the docks
Muller most have known that he was doing • very
wrong thing, but where was there • place more likely
I than be ,locks of London...here &young man of Muller's
age might be more easily deluded into • purehme of such
, snide.? That he had stoma money in his polsemion
had been proved by Hale, end that money must have
gore somewh. re, for he had only Ils. in hts possession
when he was arrest, don the Victoria. He contended
that there wan not sufficient evidence to show that
Muller was at the docks on Monday. It was shown that
he left Mrs. Blythe's that morning at eight o'clock, and
It was ten o'clock when he called upan Mr. Death.
After proceeding to the docks and making the purchase
Muller might bare become suspicious about the nature
of the parablese he had made, and, be:ng suspicious, bad
gone to Mr. Death'a to ascertain the value of the pro-
perty, and if possible, effect an exchange. Referring
to the dress the prisoner wore on various omission. the
Monied serjeant said it would not be • very wonderful
thing to an ordinary mind that • man ahould wear a
dark pair of tempers on the Saturday and • light pair
of trousers on the Monday. Bet the prosecutor
had endeavoured to construe every fact to the
prejudios of the prisomr, nod the Inference at-
tempted to be forced upon the jury, was that
Muller had made away with the pair of black trousers.
He might have sold those Gowen on the vowel, and
that was • very likely thing; for he was • man wlto
was always buying, selling, and chafferiue. Moreover.
he bail no money whim be sterted. Eleven shilliep
were found upon him when he was arrested. lie bed
now offered to the jury what be thoupt • not an- I
reasoneble interpretation of the prig...Ts prof...dings.
With the exception of the false statement he had made
hie moduct had been straightforward, open to the
world. At the docks he gave a right name, although he
was mid to have committed • great murder. On the
previous Saturday he pledged everything in his own
name, and when at sea he wrote a natural and credita-
ble letter to his friend Blythe in London. All this
seeoted quite inconsistent with • guilty mind. Muller
bat declered when seised that he was on the line,
and that statement there had been no attempt to 000
tea-lint, There was one part of the came which he
almost defied them to reconcile with the prisoner's ,
guilt. Mr. [telex' was • man 5 feet 8 inches or 5 feet 9
inches high, strong, and in robust health, to whom the
prisoner at the bar was • mere stripling. The distance
between the Bow and Hackney Wick railway stations
was scarcely • mile, 1.44 yards. All this ettack, the
body dragp d ecross the carriage mad thrown out, all in
the apace of a minute and a-half I Could they believe
that so slight • youttg man could have committed such
• series of acts in a time so incredibly short? Could
that struggle, which ended in the death of • powerful
sober man, have been perpetrated by the young man at
the bar? The gentlemen of the jury had their eyes
about them, and they were perfectly able to judge on
that point for themselves. Such an impression on their
minds, if they believed it, would negative all the circum-
stantial evidence in the world. Ile could imagine two
such men, attracted by the add watch and chain and
by the black bag, following Mr. Briggs and attacking
him for the porn.* of securing his property, but this
young man was • person of peaceful dispoeition, of
kindly habits, and yet it was sail of him that be com-
mitted this foul Grime. He contended that it was
impossible for human credulity to believe that the
young man Muller could have committed the murder
under such eircum.taneea. He maintained, moreover,
th.t the murderers of Mr. Brigp, whoever they were,
came with their own weapons, end that the murder was
not committed by means of the stick which was found
in the carriage. If this were an ordinary case of trade
of any kind, or • miserable cue between the dust cart
and • hackney cab, he should be allowed to sum op the
evidence, but as it was • cam of life and death he was I
precluded from doing so. The learned serjeant raid:
I shall call Mr. Les, who saw two persons with Mr.
Briggs in the carriage at Bow. Next you have been
told that Muller said he seagoing t 0... his sweetheart.
, I shall slow you he did go to see • girl of the town,
who did not know him by hie right name. Mre. Jones,
the landlady of the girl, will my on that night, slier
nine o'clotk he went to her hones near Vaasa Road,
end asked for the girl, who wa. out. He talked for
ten minutes. lie had on his slipper. An hour after
the girl Eldred returned. and neat moraine Mrs. Jones
told her that her Frenchman had been. The way Mrs.
Jones said Eldred fixed the time waa by the telegraphic
I message I bold in my hand. That telegram was re.
Delved by the girl on the 9th, from • man named
Strengham, saying he should come on the next day
iSundarl. If he proved that Muller was there at nine
o'clock it would interpose another element of great
doubt. This Mrs. Jones tag two other 10,1gere (eel/onto
nate. ) Muller's visit, to tins place are the sole stein
upon him ; but when we know what is going on, from
the hightail to the lowest, we should not pour out one
moral inlignation on him for thi.. The telegram in
genuine. I will prove it beyond all doubt, and show
that Muller went to the girl Eldred, to whom he Paid
be was going. I shall also call before yoe • certain
witness—the weight of whose testimony will not be
great—an omnibus-condnotor, who is unable to identlfy
Muller in the prisen, nor can he fix the date ; but he
remember at mean minute. to ten o'clock on one night.
three or four months ago, • passenger got up on the*
ttttt nihus who had • eery t nipper nn One foot, and that
omnibus was from Camberwell. The time tallies with his
visit to Mrs. Jones or Johnson. Every effort had been
made to find the person from whom Muller purchased
the hat, but he regretted that those efforts had not
leen attended with income The learned serjeant then
proceeded as follows have already said that it is
roy intention to call wittiest..s iv respect of the hat of
Mr. Briggs. who will tell yon in the emend-bud trade
is not unusual le cut down WAN and Dew thee,
there is one more observation which I ought
to have made before. It is of great importance. It is
this—that no mark, of blood have been found on
Muller's clothes. It in idle to say that he made away
with his clothes. Clearly he did not before he got to
the docks. No doubt the assailant of Mr. Briggs must
have been covered with blood. Oentlemen, I believe I
have urged on your attention every topic that I thought
might be fairly advanced on behalf of the prisoner at the
Gut. I hope I have done my duty. The cam is
one of great suspicion, and I hope you will forgive Nu
foe 'eying if the feet Is not proved it is equivalent to •
declaration of innocence. If ever there waa • ease that
required eare it is this. Your sentenas ones orououneed
and inscribed you can never recall it. YOUrn is the
power given to no other institution, the transeendeot
power of flaying whether thin young man ehall live or
die. That ii the awful duty you have to perform when
you leave that box, and I conclude, as I began, by
expressing my full confidence in your honor and care.
It is fee you to give judgment, and I trusteed pray
that that judgment will be one of mercy.

SATURDAY. —Shortly before 01110 o'clock the jury
sntered the box. and at nine o'clock precisely the rd
Chief Baron Pollock and Baron Martm took their seals,
accompanied by alderman Gilebone sod the Coder
Sheriffs.

Mr. Roebuck, M.P., took a seat on the Bench, and
appeared to be taking notes of the evidence as it
PreTsdid. . . . . .

—When tha Judges had taken their seats the prieoner
we. brought up H. walked up to tke front of the dock
briskly, and bowed respectfully to the Bench.
The first witness called was

Mr. Thoina. Lee, wco-saiclhe was. private gentle.
main, living at King Edward-road, Hackney. He knew
the late Mr. Brigs. Hs last saw him alive on the 9th
of July, in • railway carriage at Bow station. The
train was coming from Feriohurch-street. He warn is a
9rst-4am carriage. He said to deceased, "Good nicht,
It,. Bricp ;" and he replied, "Good night, Tom." The
train stopped rather longer than usual Witness got
into • wood-class carriage. There were two men in
the carriage with Mr. Brian one sitting on the left
side of hint and the other opposite. Mr. Briggs had his
hat on, to the beat of bis belief. The man who sat
opposite to Mr. Briggs waa a stout man with light
whiskers, and the other was a tall man and dart. He
told his friends of it as won am he heard of the warder,
Ha was sent for by the coroner to give evidence.
Crosecumined by th Solicitor-General: He had
been for &stroll down Hackney, and then went to Bow.
He went to Hackney by the nine or quarter-put nine
train. He went to Bow for a stroll, and sailed in at a
bolus near the cburob and bad a glass of ale. Did not
know the num of that hues. Met noboly while he wee
taking his stroll. He (mild give no better account of
his befog there. He beard of the murder on Monday
or Tuesday *her it occurred, either at Mr. Irelend's in
Fetter-lane' or Mr. Lake's in Cheapside. Did not
inform the police of haying wen Mr. Brian buena' be
fit not with to be brought on, and did not think his
evidence had anything to do with it.
Solicitor-General : What Yon saw you friend Mr.
Bs lig. only four militates before be was murdered in
company el two men, who you say you can describe, and
you think your evidence would have nothing to do with
the earn.? _ .

Witness: Yes. I thought it would not be 'widener,
nod that It we. not importeat.
Sulicitor-Orner.l: 11 that your answor

Witmer.: Ye..

.
Witness eontinued.—He trot mentioned the einem-
donee to Mr. Toolkins, a modioal man, but not his
medical .an. lie thought that yea oe the Monday
night, but he could not swear to it. He aide told it to
his wile, and afterwards to Mr. Ireland. Hs did not ,
communicate with the poiios. They came to him on the
following 'tondo', in consequence of what they had
heard he had said. If they had not acme to him he
would not have comminuented with them. His reason
was that be did not wish to have the trouble of attend•
ing to give evidsmee.
Solicitor General : Was that the mom you gave
before the Coroner?
Serjeant Perry objected to the quash. a, unless the
deposition was put In.
The Solicitor-General said it bad been read by Set.
just Parry in its entirety.
Serious. Parry said he had read from his brief, and
not the depositioes.
TM Judges sustained the obiection.
Crosossastmation continued Red semi Mr. Briggs
several times to the City, and had rode berme ist the
carriage with him. He had Dever visited Mr. BIZ,
nor bad Mr. Brine visited him. Latterly Mr.
had tolled him " Tom." Got into the oast carriage to
Wm. but did not se. the guard go with the lamp to the
carriage where Mr. Brigs, WA be...
ei
Beneustabied by Serialist Perry: Be had known Kr.
Brigp tee Nihilist thirty years. He wu an affable man,
.°dy the eh del. Sometimes he slept in the carriage.
B lie foreman of the Jury: When he slept he used
to bane his hat on.

_
lin Join use next called, but did not answer to
her name.

(hong* Byers said be was a hatter, and had been in
the trade front boyhood. It was very common to stitch
hats in the second-hand trade. (Witaseshere examined
! hat found on Holler.) That was not done nab.
should do It; he would have stuck it with dissolved
shellac, as wall as Mitch it, instead of pasting it.
By Mr, Court : He would have stitched if fink and
Men have stook it topthur with dissolved shellac.
By a Juror: llid not think • hatter would have done
it in that way; although if it were to he done in •
hurry I. might do it in that way. To make a good Job
of it, it would probably take IsJf-awliour. If be bad
had the job to do, be would not have cut the leather
lining, but would have put a new leather in it.
William Lee, • hatter, of King'ssoad. Chelsea, ex-
amined by Sergeant Parry, miXI that when he out a hat
down he •Iwajs stitched it together; he used varnish
instead of shellac, as it was cheaper. lie had dose
many such. Hats were worn lower now than that pro-
duced. He knew nothing of the young man Muller.
Cross-examined by Serjeant Ballantine : He did not
cut the hst And the lining. Hale were out down because
they were worn lower, and were saleable when cut
down. _

_
The Foreman : Do you cut them down so lows' this?
—Witnem : No.

Alfred Woodward, • clerk in the Slectric and Inter-
national Telegraph Office, produced the original tole-
gram, sent on Saturday, the 9th of July, from Alen. Gill
titrachan, of Somereetutreet, Whiteehapol, to Mow
Eldred, of Stanley Got•age, JIMICS street, Vawahroad,
Camberwell. It was sent in to their Mineing-lanct
Once, at 1 30, and went out at 1.35. It might be ball-
an.hour before at was delivered._ .

Elizabeth Joni§ Raid she lived at 1, St. George's-road,
Peckham. In July last she lived at Stanley Cottage,
Jaines-street,Vsesal•road. She bed two female lodgers,
who received the visits of gentlemen; one of them was
Mary Ann Eldred. Witneas knew Muller as visiting
Eldred. Remembered reoei ring the telegram on the 9th
of July. Could not remember what time, but it tau
some time in the afternoon. Iteoclleeted seeing Muller
at her house on the 911 of July, about • quarter-pest
nine o'clock. He called to see Eldred, and she was not
St home. He staid about five or ten minutes at the door
taling to her, and then loft. Hs west by the
name of Miller, but she used to cell him "the little
Frenchman." he told her he was • German, but she
alway. called him • Frenchman. He told her on the
Saturday night that he had hurt his foot, and she
noticed he had • slipper no his right foot, but did not
observe the material. Next morning she made a opus-
munication to Mary Ann Eldred, and also to her
husband. Her blase in Vassal.road was &haat half •
mile from Camberwell-gate, where the omnibuses went

Crose-esamined : Her haaband's name woe Kemp, but
she bad gone by the name of Jones. Paned by the
same name now as when she was in the Venal-road.
Did not know any part of Peckham, nor where Helen--
square was. If a person wooled to go to King street
from Vasesldoad he would go to Camberwell Gate, The
Peckham onsnibumes did not go from Quoberweli Gate,
but from the Lord Nelson. Both went over London
Bridge. She took in the telegram, bat it wee so long ago
that she could not tell whether else had signed it. It
wee after dinner. The reason she knew the time Muller
called way by the fact that Eldred asked her the time
when she went out, and she told her it was nine o'clock.
Had a clock in her kitchen, end looked at it when she
gave the answer. Moller celled about half-ea-how
after. About seven or eight weeks ago • German
gentleman called on her. Eldred was at home, and
saw him. That was sonic weeks after Muller had
called. Did not know that Muller was the man sus-
pected of committing the murder until the German
gentleman some. tilm had no idea Muller was the man
charged, for he was called Miller. On reading the
papers and knoeing be was • tailor, she thought
he might be the .141311. The telegram was not
shown to the German gentleman ; It was
not found until two or three weeks ago, but
Miss Eldred always bad it with her. When the
German gentleman called, Eldred might not have
thought of the telegram. Did not tell the German
gentleman it was half-past nine on the Saturday night.
Soma time after that, Eldred said if she could not Sod
that telegram it would Si the day. Eldred looked for
the letter and found it three weeks ago. Last Monday
week the telegram was produced for the lint time. and
given to the gentlemen who were defending Muller
She did not know that it would be of any service.
. . .

Re-examlned : They were unable to di the day until
they found the telegram.
Mary Ann E.liired said the lived at Peckham. Before
then she lived at Lent-street, in the Borough, before
that at Islington. She lived with the landlady she was
with now at Stanlcy Cottage, Jameestreet, Camberwell.
She knew Muller. Remuinberel receiving the telegram.
Sew Muller in the Old Jewry. That wax on the Satur-
day previous to receiving the tebgram. On the Setae
dny she received the telegram she went out about nine
o'clock, and did not return until after twelve o'clock.
The following morning her landlady made a communi-
cation to her. She utually went out at nine o'clock.
Knew Muller was going abroad several weeks before his
left, lie wanted her to go with him to New York, but
she would not. Ile maid if she did not go with him he
would not remain six months.

Crow-examined : Could not recollect when any gentle-
man called on her regarding Muller. Gave up the
letter to a gentleman ale. I dayesgo. fiswllfr. Beard
two days ago. Saw him first, less than a month ago.
She did not reeollect haring spoken to any one on that
subject Saw two German gentlemen at her house.
Bid not say anything then about the telexram. Before
they calle I she had not had her attention directed to
the telegram, and the time aim went out. See knew
that she went out at nine o'clock, because she usually
wont out at that hour. The telegram had nothing to do
with axing the time she went out. The next d•y Mrs.
OINIS told her that her blend had called after she
went out.

Mr. Thomas Beard, examined by Sennett Pony: I
am • solicitor, and conducting the defence of the
prion.er, instructed by the German Legal Protection
Society. The witness' Hata, four days before the
arrival of Moller in this country, told me Hist when be
parted from him on the Saturday, Moller said that he
Os. going to his eweetheszt at Camberwell. I sent one
of my sledge to Camberwell to make inquiries, and the
result hes been stated. Muller arrived her on the 17th
of September. I firet saw the telegram about twelve
days ago.
Cross-examined by the Solicitor General It was by
say advice that the two lase witnesses were not ex-
amined at the police court and inquest.
Charles Foreman said he was an omnibus conductor,
and resided at Peckham. He drove • Peckham Rye
omnibus, which paided Camberwell-gate. It left there at
See minutes to ten o'clock. The Green wee abou ta q garter
of a mile from the gate, and a mile from the Veamil.road.
He remem,ered a gentle.nan who wore a slipper riding
In his vehicle, but when it was he could not recollect.
It was his last journey to the (-Sty, at Avs
minutes to ten. It was in the summer time.
He !coned heavily on witnesses arm as be got
out, and as ha went hopping off he said to him-
self, "You have got a touch of my complaint-- the
gout." He could not swear to the prisoner being the
man, or to tha dipper produced. The gentleman warn
fair.

This closed the cue for the defence.
The judge; then retired for a few minutes to ecineult,
and on r•turning into court,
The Solicitor °entrel rows to reply,—His friend,
Serjeant Parry, had found fault crithhim'in dealing in
probabilities, and yet he had done the same thing hint.
self. Serjeant Perry was quite right, but be should not
have found fault with torn for doing the same thing.
He waggled that the prisoner had friends to defend biro,
and to get him the assistance of the most eminent
counsel. The Government did not wish to prom a con-
vietion against say one, and it was, therefore,
cation to him to know that all that could be said for the
prixoner had been said, and that, too, in the most ford.
hie and eloquent manner. If, wider these circum-
stances, he had failed to •stablisli his Innocenti., the
jury had a duty to perform, and they must do that duty
fearlualy. He did expect, when his learned friend oose-
immild his defence, that he would bees made out•
strong cam, but the whole of his eridence bad crumbled
away before the cut-I-examination. He did not at all
show that the hat found in the railway carriage was not
Muller's ; and on the other hand, there was the evid•oce
of Walker, who stated that there was only one hat, or
certainly not more than two, that had the same lining
an Muller's; so that if the murder had been committed
by the man who bad the other hat, Muller must have
tut him, and got Ilr Brirjs's watch, chain, and hat from
him. Then there was the evidence of Mraktepach,aa intl.
inatefriend, who had seen the hat, and had it in her hand
frequently, end she identified the hat as the prisoner's.
Than, name the evidence jof Matthews, wtooh he con-
tended woo animperiebed. A great deal bad been towle
of that paltry conviction of his at Norwich, but • bet
did it amount to? That he bad bees guilty of an indis-
cretion in his *July youth, and had bad • slight im-
prisonment for it. He had Owe then struggled oa,
and honestly endeavoured to gain his living. Muth had
also been said respecting Matthews not being able to
state where he waa on the night of the 9th of July, but
he was not prepared to auwer much questions then. He
bad sines made utquiriee, and was now able to state that
be had been st the Great Western Railway, and, not
getting • fun, went quietly home. The jury had beard
' the manner in which he had given his evidence, and also
, the explanation about the hat, and they would say
' whether he was the witness of truth. Yet it was upon
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strong that the bat belonged to Muller; but the jury
were asked to believe that somebody had pinked
up the old hat of Matthews, which had been thrown
away, that he had coniwitted the murder, and what
was still more improbable, that the murderer had
brought the watch, chain, and hat of the murdered run
to the prisoner. He then mune to the hat of Mr. Briggs.
If the murderer had Dot taken Mr.Briggeg bag it would
have been found about the station on the railway, bat
it was not. The hat found on Muller tram the same
hind as Mr. Briggs's; it wee • bell crowned hat, the
mune size es Mr. Brines It bed been cut down, and
net in • manner it would have becn cut down in the
trinie. If it had not bees cat down no doubt Mr.
Br*. s's hat would bare had his none in it. The
evidence of Mr. and Mrs. Repach proved that when be
was there`on Saturday they notiood no difference in his
hat. hut when they saw him again they were struck
with the tact that be had OP • new one. He said h• gave
14a. 6d. for it, but Reuel said it was a guinea hat. It
was therefore plain that he did not have that hat on
Saturday morning, although he had said that be had
bed it tw• months. Bat the rue did no rest lbws,
for ths whole of tbe property lost by Mr. Brigp was
found upon Muller. He then referred to the circum-
stances of Muller previous to the Saturday, and con-
tended that ha was not in • position to purchase the
watch, chain, and hat of the deceased. It had boas
said that this was an extraordinery ease, and or
it was ; it was extraordinary that this murder
should have been minim tted at all. 11 a person
could not travel with safety in • Intolass
railway carriage in this metropolis where were they
to look for safety? They bad • mu la which pro-
babilities had to be dealt with, and they mast dui with
them as they found them. It bad been repressehed by
the learned sunset that Mr. Briggs was • heavy Pow'''.
tel man, in full health, sad the primmer as • weak
young istaa. That was net emus" tar at no period ol
IRe wan the body in a ntege vigorous stele this at IL
Go the other haed, Betip, was an old man, and had
only just recovered from a St of Illness. He wig not •
heavy IDSD, being only between 11 and 12 stoat., and in
a very weak condition. It bad also been eontanded
that there was a desperate straggle Newsom the mer.
derer• and their victim, and that the deed was does by

• Plat of TOW who had welshed Mr. Brim fog the
sake of robling and that the preeseatters=
show with what instrument the erne
That it war impossible to prove, sad be Ana is a sh.
of the trial ; but what he bed petal
war that the wooer bad hese When! with sMC
instrument by mem perms is the earitage.
evidence showed that tlere had bar no nail& 11111
Mr. Brius, for his clothes wore DOI rumpled, ozopi „,m
front of rhirt, and that might have bra den
failing out of the carriage. Mors yes no Probadlill
the murder having been perpetrated by a numb*
ire, for if it had they would have tom thillsta
ring and the mousy from Mr. Briggs. T.
was that the murder woe perpetrated by I .atie
—that be took Mr. Brigp unewerer—int he streak
him evenl blows in Reception, and that Mr.
attempting to leave the carriage wal
the prisower without lb. slightest aioiny. Be this
came to the evidence of the defter, and woe*
criticised that of Mr. lee, and eentesded that It 1118 got
worthy ef the slightest redeem It was •• las=
that • an would speak to • friend may gees
before be wee muniered,that be saw hair the ets=
of two men wboin he rad identify, mid yr be
' not come forward and glve riders theme It was relh
a bother. That was not a witaris upon whom 'Manes
the Crown could rely, and be entirely screed el kb
learned freed, Mr. °Ward. net »MK Be this
referred to Mr. Lam tret statement, ead that toad
day, iusd oeurmeeted on the feet that eines he
weal examined before the career be had pet
• pair of whisker on on a the EOM% heft
Peering him as unworthy of belief, he would tIOMIS to the
alibi, sad would my that • more aortae/eery nab/
never heard. Mrs. Jones had stated the Una es
part nine that Muller called, said she »ferred to
clock to ocereborate her, but the wliseet Meta ma
nothing about it. Try kid men we or
to Is the data, but nothing was maid neat it dr=
If that had heen the care of tang the date, ale woo
it not thought of sooner? A tarp.= woo as able
ordinary thing for her to receive •. telegruesdijr
to brothels every day. But what did it peva
—it had »Wag to do with Mar, acriliultor with it.
flapper he did go to see Ilbtred that solere Wee
no *video« they err li rely limn Is sOr
ter. Eldred rid the knew the time, b.usi is
really went eat at nine o'eleek, bet the sold sot Me
word about asking Mrs. Jeer writ time it wee. It
war Just as probers that the Is was nitre *Meek and
' that would make it Jut shout the time that be Vali
arrive at London Bridge simultaneously with MA Jagger
With respect to the conductor, his testimony wee it
too vague a character to require to he 17=
Having gone through all this evident, Ite
belief that if the jury had • clear, a It., and ea &hint
reveller' on nen 'Madinat be einendthed Ike merne,
they would do their duty to their country and 1.1 blet
guilty.
The Court then adjosmed for • quarter of an his,.
Tas —Chid Berea Penick this sums/
up, carefully elucidating the thief fasts al the Oboe.
The Jury retired, and I. shoat • quarter of an bang
returned into Court with a Raid of GUILTY.
Barri Martin then put on the black rp sad pro-
ceeded to par matere. Before doing so, bOwseor be
raid Is. wondered it to be in amordere wit2reatila
and • duty which he owed to *be ceentry, with the
view of excluding all her of sum I. the prisear, to
state that he sad the Caiel Barr estinly eencerred in
tbe finding of Um jury.
The learned jar then proceeded to star his chia
reasons for concurring in the »rdist, dealing pane.
laxly on the fact that the patriot had not soli ion*
accounted for himself on the realm of the warder.
The prisoner, who appeared to bs nedauated, wee
understood, after the pram of the teeters, to de-
clare that he was hay seavicted, and if On
was tarried into execntre he should die inureetly.
He did not, however, in so numy words porn Ids
innocence.