The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1864-10-04 00:00:00

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Mr.- Gifford : In your last examination you men•
tioned • oonvenstion you had with the prisoner about
• new hat • will yes state what this conversation was!
or,.Resish : I naked that he bad as a new hat.
He add kin old bet had got smashed in a &millets, and
he also told me be had bad the new hat ebonite° months.
He told my husband that he had given Its. 6d. for the
DOW bat, upon which my boatload remarked that it
" looked • baiter hat than that," and added. "I. looks
Idle a guinea one." Nothing more was said about the
hat to my recollection. At the end of last year be
brought • Isat•box to my bow. I cannot say if it was
in November or December. He told as that Mr.
Matthews had made bins • present of the hat. He
showed me the het, sad I believe the one new produced
I. the same. [The bat found in the railway °amiss*
waa shown to the slums.] I lionised the which
was a striped one, with wide brown and bias steps.. and
small black end white edge. I dertribed it before. I
saw it at the police station. I had frequently seen it,
and I ham noticed that he had • habit of putting bin
letters under the lining. On the Monday morning
before his departure, when he showed me the chain and
ring, he mentioned that be had bought them while
he was going to purchase his pussy ticket, and that
be had only 2a. dd. left after buying the AMA When
I saw him on eatorday, July 9, he bad • pair of de*
trousers on, to the beet of ay belief a vets and black
misters. Se had may bad them • very abort time.
He had on • plain morning coat, but I don't distinctly
remember whether it waa • eloth one; I think it we. I
havammen bias In other math

--oro-e-•=;zainizil;3lr. Beard : The oreverration about
the new hat took am on the Monday morning when
he produced the chain. I had seen him diti'y during
ths preceding week, but can't swear to the trousers he
wee then *reedit,. I awn swear to his tremors on the
Saturday, the 9th of July, but not ou any other day. I
think they ware dark. I first beard of the outrage on
Mooday. I was aware that a large reward wag offered soon
after. Nothing was said to me by the police till the
Tuesday or Wedaseday after Muller bad left England.
The boots he had on were nearly new, but I don't think
his coat was new. I had not seen him wearing a new
coat for months. Be bad one, but I did not see it.
Be-maniined by Mr. Oiled: I know that be bad a
new hat, became I beard him MU my hothead so. I
myself work at the tailoring.
Mr. Beard : Was the lining tors as it now appears
whoa you sew it last in the priseimr's possession
Witness- No: it bas been tors ethos.
Mr. Gifford; It wee *otters then. Bat was it the
same lining

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Witness : Itse, I believe it is the same bat.
Godfrey Penlinand Repoli was next galled. Hs
deposed: I efti the husbaed of the last onerous. Oa
Saturday evening, the 9th July. I saw the prisoner at
my house. He bed on • morning east and dark trousers,
dark brown or grey. They were any solottr--I teapot
be certain—every colour. They were vet y old and had
strips.. I cannot exactly ray what colour, but I think
there was brown in it. I remember his coming to me
on the 11th July—the Monday. He had on • INW bat.
I said to him, " You have got anew hat." My wife
said be as very extravagant iu having another new
bat. He said be had hod it about two moths. Upon
my natal:hag what be gave foe it he replied,' Fourteen
shillings and sixpence." Tbe convereatioa was not in
German, but in Bawieb. I said the bat was worth •
guinea. He bodes light 'rowers, and asingle.hreested
coat that atone*. Hs remained till ow, &clock that
day. I saw him every day till he sailed. After the
Saturday I sever maw him in the dark trousers which
be had on that day.
Mr. Beard °Nested to the use of the word 'dank,"
se Use witness had said the trousers were of '.very or
any colour."
Mr. Gifford: Did you ever see hint in the same
trowers after that day
Witness: No, after that I only saw him in light
trousers.

Crossexasnined by Mr. Beard: About two months
beton, this I saw him with soma new boots and new
clothes. His light trousers were a kind of check,
white and bleak mixed, or pay. He used not to wear
always therms trousers. Ho may hare worn the same
trousers again that he wore on the &Muds,. bat I did
not see theta. As I was not, always with him I cannot
say. When I noticed his new hat I did not look at
the maker's name. I bad it in my hand, but I did not
notice the lining. I did not tarn up the lining to we
If any nasne aim
.writton in it. .

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exainieed by Mr. o.dard : Oi Mosday he wore
light trousers, sad on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thurs-
day tbs s.we.

At the regnant a Mr. Beat* the witness Jonathan
IlLittbewa was recalled for faMmit crom-szaininction.
Mr. Bawl: Here you been in court all this morning?
llattbows : No; I haws only been in about five
minutes. I owns in when I was called. I cannot tell
where I warn on Saturday, July 9. I don't recollect
whore I was that night, nor weather I was at
Edmonton that day. I have been at Nertrieb. I
dare say it was about 14 years ago. I think it.,. about

- Mr. Board: You ouBht to know tit' exact dot.; you
hats mows to rooolloot it.

Witness • Yen, I know I bare.
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Sr. Beard: real not .sli-y-oa- anything more.
Ella. Matthews (wife of the lust witness): I have
known di. prisoner, Franz Muller, about two years.
He used to work for my brothe• -in-law, Mr. Wild, of
Toole, tailor. I first know him there. Recent.
to ray house ween two and thme o'clock on the after-
noon of Monday, 'July 11. He oat • little time before
he began to talk. He mentionod that he bad come
direct from Mr. Repeals to wish is good by. before
sailing for Now York. Abet four o'clock I gut the tea
ready. Jle did not speak shoat my hushed. He told
me that the arm wen going to mad him out. That was
tini Arm of Hodgk imam and Os, for whom he worked.
He said they were to pay him £l5O a-yeer, and that he
should Ilk* to be paid half-yearly. He oleo mid that be
had mid with an actideat, and that during his illness
the Arm costumed to pay bias, and they paid his doctor
for him. I paid him 3e. that day for • laths packet of
tea that he had bought • weak or so previously. My
sister was present when I paid blue the 3s. • her name
is Mrs. We had just done Ma when; she mma
in, and she heard • porde of the emirereition. She
paid hint is. 6d. After toa be showed me a new Albert
guard chain, and pat it into my hand, asking me what
I thonglit of it. At And I thought OM it was et •
good one, 111011161111 the gold ockedso very llbL I said
1414 not think it was auch • nios one as hi. old one.
He add it wean vary nise one. Hs the pet the chain
back I. his bitten-hole, and produced • little card-box
with the name of Death upon it. I marked that it
was a pod p.n.... My little girl Lad the box to
play with that afternoon. bay • neon the prisoner's
Anger. It was a pisin gold ring, with • whits muselian
bead. He said his father had seat it to him from Gar-
. many. I asked Ida if the bead ono • family likeness.
He said it was sot. He west away from my hoses
emit six o'slack I. the 'visaing. I walked with him
seem diatoms towards his manibsa Ho walked short
and Lam I wished him "Good bye." He said," I
won't my 'Good bye,' because I am oxen to-morrow
to me your hashed." The next morning, shoat half.
past eight, my husband stood maidentally on lb. little
card boo, having kaocked it off the table. He said
bormetlilog, sod I picked it up, and pot it away in a
drawer. The primer had glom it to my little girL
At about tea o'clock the following Monday night I nave
the box torn, busload.
By the Coati : He told ate that he met with the no.
eident on the Thursday previous to the 9th of July, and
be told., it was mimed by • letter-sari running over
his foot oa Loadoo-bridga
By Mr. Beard: lam not aware that I owed him more
than 3a. H. did not claim any more.. being due to
him. lam certain Ido not owe him more. lay sister
paid him is. 64., which I believe was all that Me owed
him. He did not say that my hashed owed him any
money.
John Henry Cams -I live at 91, Usury-street, Hamp-
stead-road, and am • tailor, in the employ Of Mr.
Hodgkinson,. I base known the pelmet about four
years. On Tuesday, the 12th July he am.. lam, in
the shop, and asked mo U I would buy • wide, whim
be @bowed me. It ass • gold watch ; and be said be
had • chain for it, which he bad pawned for El He
told on. be want.d lotus moor, to go to America, and
naked me to oblige him by talus( the watch and chain
for £4 to enable him to pay for his pump. Ile said he
would cell mob' on Wednesday. Rice.. about sine
o'eiciek, and we went together to the shop of a patro-
-1 broker, Mr. Barker, to this age out of pa en. We
this west to Cox'', In ere, and pawed the
irate and chain for 2.4. Th• primer took Use mosey,
and I took the duplicate, for which I cave Sc. more,
making my advance areant to 21 6a., that is, el to
misses the chain. and As. for the ticket. They were
pawned in my same. We then parted, and he said he
was going to the does to got his tick, At about
wives- o'clock lath. evening of theism. day (Wednes-
day), be wee round mein to wish re good bye. (Tho
wets* and Amin produced by the pawnbroker's assis-
tant wore shown to the witness, who ideatilled them.)
James Gifford, agent to Masers. GrinualL shipowner.
Math Quay, Load= Docka —Oar °Mae opens at stoat
its. o'cloá. I remake the prisoner coming there at
about slaves o'clock on the morning of Wednesday,
July 13. ffsaskedthepstsesfajiasssjetoNewyork,
and I replied that it would be £4. H. this inqaired
eon the ship would sail? I replied. "To-morrow."
Be then went away. I was on duty at the oMos on the
Mosday previously and if eye* had called to catmint
abet • passage I should have see him. I did 004 see
the prissier cc that day that I know of. No camerae-
Mos about • posing* to Na. York took
_pies then.
Ho retaroed to me shout two o'clockcm tho Wedeesday.
He then said, "I have oosie to pay icy f .re," wad he
mid ism £4, upon which I gam him his oontrsat ticket,
and he west away. Hs came again about half-past
three with his luggage,ommistirig of three parcels, ace
large one sad two mnallir ones. I noticed ose of them
was doeic op in canvass, about 18 'nem long by 19
wide. I monist say if the substance was soft or herd,
but I think it was soft. Ha hal a box besides. He
asked me to take cer• of the paresis, which I deelised
to do, telling him that he mast leave them with the
form" of the does, at the shod. He then took them
away. He mum down the next day, and vas on the
ship when she healed away from Undoes, on Tuesday
afternoon, to !Medusa basis. The Victoria was the
same of the ship. She sailed on Friday morning. I
west with bar to Graveled, and then I left the ship.
The Prisoner was os board whoa she set mil.
lyUr. Beard: nos net 'Iwo?, at teis ernes, ed in
say abases • Gamma porter, aimed Wen, is in 1111111111.
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By the Court: I am not aware that I was away at all
OS Monday. I may bars been for • few rotnoten
a pewnbroker's assistant, in the
employ of Messrs. George and Co., 27.
Leicester-square, produced a watch and chain pledged
o.lk. 131 h 4 July Hs took them in, but be cool I
not swear to the permit who pledged ah... Th.....
on the tiaket wee' Henry Owes,' and it oornsponded
with the doplieste produced by the witness Olass.
Mr. Daniel Glance deposid I ant • batter at No.
It, Royal Exchange. 1 have known the late Mr.
Thom.. Brigp for many years as • cu.tomer. For 25
or SO years 1 11••• mule every Let he has bad during
that period. Imeby my books tbat I bed an order for
a hat on the 24th September, 1863. It •as inade
expressly ter him, and sect bons • few days after.
The hat found in the prisoner's possesston was here
Landed ti the witness. . . .

Mr. Gaud :—Now drat at all, is that a bell crowned
hat? • - -

Yes. it is • b•II-0,0•Ded hat.
Mr. : Was the hat which you supplied to Mr.
Briip to 113133 • hat of that descripttan
Witness : Yes. . .

Mr Gifferd •. And does the measurement of the hat
correspond with the order glees?
Witness: It does precisely. Ur. Briggs afterwards
came into the shop, and complained that the het was
too easy, and I pasted a pits.' of paper ander the leather
hand. The paper has been removed, but them
are some fragments left, showing the place where it
was, end from which it has been torn off. It
was theme paper. When I sold the hat to Mr.
Brigp the crown was higher than this. The hat is
di-cidedly not in the earns condition as when I sold it.
The crown has been cat down about an inth, or from
that to an inch and • Wt. The alteration
.has sp.
patently not been made by a professional barter. It
Ls.. been stitched on, whereas • man in the trade, if be
bad to do such • thing, would have fastened it with •
proofing, neessertatiax the use of • block. It has been
sewn neatly, bat not by aa experiatmed hand. A hatter
would not have sews it. According to our rule the
name of Mr. Briggs bad been placed inside the hat, but
iii. gone with the part of the bning which has bee*
cut away It was plead jest under the band of the
bat, close to the brim.
Mx. Thorne, • hat maanfacittrer, of 47, Blackfriare
road, gave evidence that the has had been made by him
I tor Mr Dig...., and had his private mark on it; it lied
been since cut dove, but not by a regular hatter. The
rim has hers sweetie instead of being stack on with a
fiat iron ai el gum on a him*, as a hatter would do.
Besides, the silk hes bees taken bath to admit of the
cutting down, and paste has been used to stiek it on
again. A hatter woald not have done that. I should
say that the sewing was neatly done, though not as I
should do it, the process being different. I never had
snob • job to do, and doe't remember to have ever
known a hatter employed to cut down • bat; but that
is the way an experienend hand would do it, and not
the way it is done here.
Samuel Tidutersh, watchmaker, Church.etreet,
Hsckney : I have known the late Mr. Thomas Brigp aa
• customer for shoat seven or eight years. I know the
gold watch produced as having belonged to him. On
the 6th February, 1863, I cleaned it for him. There I
are some figures inside the case. I placed them there
myself when I deemed it on that thy.
Thomas Fishborse, 30, Lenian.street, Commercial'
road : I am one of the tick.:t collectors at the Fen• I
oherehetreetatation of the Blackwell Railway. In the
coarse of my duty I attended at the bottom of the stairs
leading to the platform of the North London train. I
was on daty there for the purpose of examining and
marking the tickets of the pamengere as they came in.
I knew the late Mr. Briggs by sight, and I sew him on
fisturday night, the 9th July, at about • quarter to ten
o'clock. He was in time for tbee train 'dila started at
that time. He spoke to me, and said
Mr. Beard objected to the whose?* stating what the
deemed bad said.

I.Giff.rd tbe oldest was merely to Ilz
time, it was immaterial what woe ...IL Any sound
would do, articulate or leartioalate.

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Examination °optioned : We spoke to each other.
liy attentioo wee eallod to this matter the next morn-
ing at four o'clock. I accompanied Police-coostable
Lambert to Bow, acid theoce to Mr. Briggs's house at
Hitticaer..

Ed wai4 Down, police-unstable 71 K, .id: I was
on duty in Wick-lane, Bow, on the night of the 9th
July, end heard the cry "There is a Man on the line."
.1 saw several persons carrying • body, which they took
to the Mitford Castle public-house. The shirt of the
wounded man was much rumpled, and only one stud
was left in ths front There waa £4 in the left-hand
waistcoat pocket together with some keys which (the
keys) have been subsequently returned to the bank. In
the 1011-hand pocket I also found • florin, and a half of a
railway ticket, sad in tarn right-hand tronetra pocket
Ss. 6d. in silver And croppers. In his coat po.ket I lotted
lettere, newspaper., hr., and a diamond ring on his
little finger. Attached to his waistcoat pocket wee •
patent eluen-faatener which I left there, being unable
to remove It,. From Bow station to the rpot where the
body was found the distance was 1434 yaros, and it was
740 yards from the Hackney-wick st.tion. The entire
distance bet•een the two stations is one mile 414
yards.
Benjamin Ames: I was guard of the train on the
North Loudon Railway which left Fenehureh street at
945 p.us. on the 9th July. That train was 6ve minutes
late on the night in question. On reaching liaaaney
, my attention was drawn to the compartment of the
flr-t-elaesi carriage, No. 69, near the engine. I ran for
my lamp and examined the carriage. 1 found spots of
blood on the near side cushion, and there were marks
of blood trickling down the glue of the near suds
window. The handle of the off side door was bloody.
The door was closed. I found a hat crushed up ender
the seat, also the black bag, and walkiogattil pro-
duced. I locked up the carriage, with thus articles
inside, and the engine wee taken on to Chalk Farm, I
having previously sent a telegram to Mr. Greenwood,
the -tattoo-muter there. At Chalk Farm the carriage
was placed under a shed, and it has not sine, been
moved. The time occupied in the transit of the carriage
from Bow to Hackney-wick was about three and • half
minutes It left Bow at 10.1, and the Victoria-park or
Hackney-wick stetion at 105.
George Greenwood, statioo master at the Chalk Farm
Station, stated that Ames, the guard, showed him the
carriage on its srrival,aad witness took p05....i0n of the
bat, bag, and stick, which were handed to the polio.
the sect morning. „

Inspector Kerremey, of the K division of police, at
Bow—At &boot tan o'clock on the mornier of Sunday,
Me 101 k of July, I went to the Bow stat,on, end saw •
kat-elm carriage. The handle and interior of the am-
pertinent wore bloody. I then went to the residence
of Mr. Briggs, at Clapton-aquate, Hackney, and oz-
onised the bands of the doomed. There was no blood
upon either of the... There was a hook on Mr. Briap's
waistcoat to fasten a Main—the saine ea now produced.
I produce the gold chain identified by Mr. Death, and •
jump ring receiv,rl from Pollimeergeant Prescott.
Mr. Toultein, of Lower Claptoo, Itl,g•011 I was
medical attendant to the late Mr. Briggs for msay
years. At about two o'clock on Sunday morning, July
10th, I saw him at the Mitford Castle public-house, at
Old Ford, and be was under my seperintendenee re-
moved to his own house between six and sight o'clock
it...... mornieg. I saw him repeatedly during the
day, cad he died at Most • quarter to twelve that
night. I made • postmarisin examinatiou of the body
on Tuesday, the 12th, when Mr. Etrereton and other
medical gentlemen were pretest.
A. H. Breretoe, M. &CA., Old Ford-road, Bow, gave
evidence os to the nature of Mr. Briggs's injuries.
Inspector Tanner having given his evidence,
Mr. Flowers asked the prisoner, as a matter of form,
if ha had anything to asy in answer to the charge?
Prisoner: I bare nothing to say now.
The witnesses were then bound over, and the prisoner
was hilly committed for trial at Me next sessions to be
holden at the Central Criminal Court on the 24th of
o.tober next.
Throughout the entire examinatios there was not •
single teetotal in which the primmer Mowed my signs
of depression On the contrary, he meowed to have
lost that self -orinaciousases of beam the rased of an
misers, cad occasionally scanned the court with an &s-
-pin al indifference of what was going on.
When the wi Mama were called into court to be boned
over the prisoner turned rotted, sad. after taking a
cursory glance at 1b..., turned towards his solicitor,
sail leaning over the dock entered into earnest and
animated conversation with him. In this position be
continued until lie was asked by the magigrate if be
had anything to say why he should not be committed.
This gesetion mewed to soddenly remind him of his
madam, which in the beat of his osaverciatioo he had
evidently for • moment forgotten. He drew himself
en* and said in • resentful tone, "1 barn nothing to
I say now," markedly emphasising the last wor.l. He
again horned to Its solicitor, and satin sneered into con-
versation with the same unembarrassed freedom.
He was afterwards removed to a mil, where he had ,
001114) coffee earrnd him, and where also he had to Mance
his clothes, it having bees doomed necessary that the
, whole of his clothes should undergo s whillie
tion, with the view of eseartaining if there are any
, truss of blood upon the...
Previous to Mao being asked to Mange his clothes,
whoa bad been provided for him, and when Porniant
Clarke took them to his cell cod regulated him to make
the change, he did so with rentarkahle willingness.,
simply remarking that his own trousers were made to
St without braces, bet those he had subctitated would
not so fit him. lb. serjeent at once sent and bought a
pair of breess for the prisoner.
Tbe buten Muller's committal became generally
known tlie interest hitherto manifested in him ran up
many degrees—a fact that was ample exemplified by the
hundreds who congregated to see him taken away in the
van. Throughout the length and breadth of Bow-street
there wee not a window but was crowded with people
four and live deep, while the street itself was com-
pletely blocked with the eager nicht-eons. multitude.
Soon after Ave o'clock the van drove op to the door
of the omit, and Muller, in charge of Superintendent
Durkin, was taken osidela. The moment he was seen
• tremendous &boating amen He was hurried into the
van, which stun, drove away, and the people gradually
diaper's&

A Loan Maros Fdice Film) £l.OOO roe Rs.
FOIHNO TO FILL TEO 077101.-00 the 29th September,
1797 (sixty-oven years Maas this day), Sir &Oman
Hammel, alderman, was ehossa by the livery to serve
as chief magistrate for the year ensuing. He refused to
do so. The eoncounintos was that fibs materr was re-
ferred to the Aldermen's Committee of Privileges, sad
it was decided "Thai the said alderman, haying been
duly elected to serve as Lord Mayor of the City of
London, and failed to canoe forward to ill the said
Ace, should be Ailed the sum of one thousand pounds
sterling!' The doe was peid.
011CLIIIIIATO AT CONSTANTINOPLE. - Several
001•14122 chief., of the best families amospt these
gallant mount...lofting. have joised the voilliant personsl
bodyguard of the Sultan, the Saali-igkor. Their pie-
enemy* national uniforms have been supplied from his
Majesty's private pores. We understand, also, that,
creek squadron of cavalry is about to be formed, to
amidst exclusively of Cireamiaas of good family; sad
that, moreover, six sdditional cavalry regiments will be
added to the strength of Midi armed the Turkish service,
composed entirely of picked wee oboe., ham the rank
and file of it. Cireemian volunteers. Since our last
publication 4,000 Cireetelaas have arrived at Hustaiodie
I. Russian sad Ottoman government ves els, and bare
been distributed throughout oolosies already I. donna
of Aittirmanst is diffeniat parts of Bulgaria. On Friday
lad the steam frigate Tail arrived is from Trim-
Woad with upwards of 2,000 vb. lave
b en distributed between the "Wow was
Isiskit sad 614 in moms of forma= he tie via* of
Illmqsaro-Listavii Aforold. llopOomboo 21.