The Express.
London, England, 1864-11-17 00:00:00

THE PLAISTOW MURDER.

The police engaged under Mr. Superintendent
Howie in collecting evidence es to the manner in which this
atrocious murder was perpetrated, have acquired some most
important particulars since Monday lest. On that day, at
a distance of about 17ft. from the spot where the body of the
murdered man was discovered, a large clasp knife was found,
and on inquiry the police learnt the important fact that
the knife was the prisoner Ki.hl's, and had been seen in hi
possession so l►te as the Sunday after the murdered man
was missing. They have also learnt that out that Sunday
evening he desired to be called early on the following
morning, and they have reasons for believing that he arose
and went out before daylight, and returned hems by about
breakfast time. The finding of this knife, therefore, am-
necta the prisoner still more with the crime, and the fact
of its being in his possession so long after the time when
the man was missed, taken in connexion with this early and
secret journey, has led to the opinion that the mutilation of
the body was not effected until Monday, and was the result
of an afterthought. That the bead was not severed frem the
body at the time of the murder is proved by the severed Hash
cuttings being of more recent date than the other mutila-
tions, and it is not improbable that the murderer was ied aced
to s isit the scene of the crime in order to effect this mutila-
tion, in consequence of the inquiries which were constantly
being made about the deceased. The authorities of
Sootlandlard, in reply to • missy which they a
few days since transmitted to the ➢olio authorities of
Hamburg have learnt the description given of the de-
ceased has led to the identification of the body as that of
Theodore Christian Fuhrhop. a clerk in the firm of Messrs.
Neuman and Co., of that city, and who left there for Eng-
land about six weeks since. In the vessel in which deceased
came to England, Kohl also came, and it is believed that
the two first made each other's acquaintance on board.
Kohl had gone to Hamburg, he had stated, to get some
property to which be was entitled ; but it would appear
that his journey was a fruitless one, as be wee shortly
after his return borrowing money of his wife's relatives.
The deceased man signed his proper name on beard the
vessel, but it is remarked that the prisoner signed • same
very different from the one which he now gives. Much
additional evidence will be brought before the adjourned
coroner's court this evening, and which, it is thought, will
have the effect of leading to the committal of the prisoner
upon the coroner's warrant

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

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