The Express.
London, England, 1863-11-12 00:00:00

and various other asalagous cases the practice THE TRIPLE MURDER IN I CAB.
of the house seems to be to judge in a loose and
general way whether the result of the election The bodies of the Rants and their children have
would have been different had the law been ob- been Identified leverd relations on both 'lda ei the
florally. Mrs. Hunt's father is a cabdriver named Blake,
served, and if they think not to confirm the oleo- 1 news ie 80. Johiaimest, Smithfield. H. fa.
maim.
tion. This jurisprudence is evidently a great th..„ts tthe „iskkome m the frequency 'of violist
encouragement to all functionaries to oontinue ! „
quarrels between Hunt sad his wife. Blake's daughter (Mn.
their illegal practices on the chance of not being I Hunt's sister) stake that about a month ago Hunt made an
found out. It does not seem to occur to the I unsucessdul attempt to poison hie wife. Latterly be seed
to beat her severely, and the sister eacribes the wound on
majority that anything ought to be done to put
the unfortunate woman's foot to a blow from a poker, given
a stop to such flagrant contempt of the law in
to her by Hunt. The house in which they lived is a' steal
the future. However, these are but the little ni.roomed oottags, somewhat poorly furnished,
interlude preliminaries to the great electoral battle bowfin every mark of a household going to ruin.
which, unless expectation is greviously disap- It has been represented that Hunt had fitted up a room in
pointed, is really coming off within a few days. the house as a laboratory wherein to experiment on poisons.
The Bourse improved a little upon the strength This is not the cam the only elites of drugs or chemicals is
the house are a number of bottles on the back parlour man-
of the Emperor's letter, published in the Moniker.
bilpieoe, most of which are empty, the remainder 000toioing
Rente roes 20c., and Mobilier 15fr. a few such larmkat subs:anon es borax, camphor, flavour-
The Deify News is seized. fug for pastry, and a few other similar preparations that
might be found in every household in the kingdom. It is
certain that Hunt well knew the properties of the deadly
substances which be used with each terrible effect, but the
knowledge was doubtless acquired by him in the course of
buskins. When roused by the polio. be was in bed reading
"Tom Brown at Oxford," and comedown to the Alone in hi.
night-shirt. He must have swallowed the aconite Immedi-
ately be found that he was pursued, for the bottle, costae-
ing perhaps a couple of drops of the poise*, was afterwards
fated in a cupboard io his bedroom. The story he told to
the polies about Mrs. Hunt having an uncle at Southamp-
ton named Campbell, who had given her 501., is a pure
fabrication from beginning to sad. the unfortunate women's
friends Deis( all poor hardworking people, living in London.
Hunt's body lies at hie house, awaiting the coroner's in-
quest, which will be °posed to-morrow. A post-mortem
examination will be made to-day by Dr. Peelle. The
guilty man's *oastateace is meet forbidding. A receding
forehead, singularly neamive frestel Imes, and a firm-eat
mouth inspire one with no very favourable opinion of their
poseirsor.

DESPERATE POACHING AFFRAY.

Whilst four of the gamekaaedppeeeree of Mr. Thomas
Hibbert, of Sidle' Park, near Maccleefed, were crossing •
field in which there is a mover, between Mee and tea o'clock
• few evenings ego, they saw • body of sons 20 piechen
encoded beneath the shade el a tree. No sooner did the
poachers find out that they had been discovered than they
opened out sad prepared for an attack. They commenced
twisg nth. keepers large ston es which they took from their
pocks* and with which they seemed to have provided them-
selves to meet any emergency. The, keens; (two of whose
had a donble-barrelled gun each) threatened to It, if the
stone-throwin was continued. The stone-throwing , how-
ever, inarsased, and a shot was fired, but by which party
ant does not clearly appear. All this time the two parties
were about 20 yards distant from each other. A were
eimonnter then took place, daring which the keepers fired
both barrels of one gun and one of the other, the poachers
keeping up a savage Mink with sticks and stones. They
outnumbered the keepers, who were obliged to bin a
quick retreat after fighting with their simulants 20 miaota
The poachers escaped, but not without sevdt• Wary to
some of their number, for to the sone al the affray being
examined next morning, blood was fated to have been
spilt, and trans of blood were followed • considerable dis-
tanos along the pea is the direction the men en imp-
posed to have taken. Infonostion wee at nee re, to
'Supt. Williamson, end he has succeeded in •
two men. The first wee apprehended at a house ia Nun-
tsinotreet, Maceleafield. He give the name of John Wil-
liamson. He was found sitting by the fire with his
head bandaged, and interim from inn-shot wounds. His
coat end waistcoat were perforated with shot, sad saturated
with blond, and he had something like 18 shot wounds in
his faro. 131 e was takes to the police-office, when half •
dome shot were takes out of his breast, oorreepondiag
exactly in sire and quelity (No. 6) to those need by the
keepers. The other man, George Knight, a convicted
poacher, was appreheeded at his own house in POMO.
street on Monday night lash He had 21 gnn-abet wounds
in his left arra, sad 23 is his breed, and his mat and
waistcoat were riddled. The keepers moon identify either
of the wieners, and speak so ineoecinsively on the poist
that the magistrates have had to diesharge both roes. The
Moistener that they wen fired as by the poachers, one of
them having a horse sloth which he bad on his shoulders
shot through. On the other hand it Is stated that the
nacbers never fired at all, sot having gems with Om.
Yr. Hibbert has offered • reward of 251 for the coeviction
of the parsons who Arai ea the keepers.

The cabana, Gould, who took the Hants to the Shore-
ditch station from Camberwell, went to St. Mary's Roe-
pital yesterday evening to identify the bodies lying them.
A great deal has been said about the moustache which was
worn by the man in the cab, and sworn to by the cabman,
but there seems to be every probability that Hunt wore •
false one in order to disguise himself. Haut must have
had some other mesas of procaring money besides that
afforded by his business, for not only did he leave 18
months' salary in the bands of his employers, but 401. in
notes wee found on his person after his death.
It appears that about an hour before Mrs. Hunt and her
two unfortunate children est out last Saturday thermic*
for the Bishopegate station of the Great Eastern Railway,
the eldest girl, Jamie, went into a cheesemonger's shop in
the neighbourhood and said for some butter, stating that
a email quantity would do, as "we are going away.* She
appeared I. high spirits, sad obviously was in joyful aati-
eipation of a country exoersion. When she left the shop
she harmed tech and kissed a little girl, a playmate of bees,
sad visited her good bye, as if she did Dot expect to see her
mein for some time. Jamie and Anne Hunt were very is-
tesestiag lilW girls, and were much liked by the children
la the neighbourhood.