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

ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.-(THIS DAY.)

From inquiries instituted this morning, it appears that
the murderer, Hunt, and his unfortunate family
were well known in the district in which they resided.
Until within the last three years, when they removed
into the house, Anne Cottage, Wellington-road,
Hunt carried on bushier as a book and music seller
in a shop at the corner of Warner-road, Camberwell New
road. His manner was then considered peculiar end re-
served, and it was to his somewhat repelling manner that
the failure of the business was at the time attributed. The
shop was an agency office for governess'. It may be men-
tioned theist that time be certainly worse black moustache.
He was considered to be a well-conducted and religiously-
disposed man, but his wife bore a different character.
Upon the failure of the bookselli•g business, he became
• sort of traveller to a chemist, and it is stated, on what
appears to be good authority, that he had been formerly
keeper of a chemist's shop. In his house in Wellington-
road one of the rooms was turned into a sort of l►boratory
where poisons of different kinds were kept. The family
were generally remarked by their neighbours in Wellington.
road as being moat mysterious and peculiar. Mrs. Hunt was
notoriously given to habits of intoxication, and it was even
saidto worn Mr. Haat conducted Wmself respectably,
11 and his singularly reserved manner and apparent unhappi-
nese was attributed to the conduct of his wife. The • iodow-
blinds were kept down for days together, and the door was
rarely opened except on the chain. Quarrels between Hunt '1
and his wife were of frcquent occurrence. About 12 months
ago Mrs. Hunt remarked to • neighbour, " You would not
know my husband now ; he has shaved off his moustache."
Tbere is bat little doubt that the fact of the moustache
making • marked differeoce is his appearance sounded to
him the idea of putting on a false moustache before going
on his murderous tide last Saturday evening.
On Monday night about eight o'clock, two hours before
his capture, Hunt went into the Tiger Tavern, at Comber-
well-park, where be and his unhappy wife had frequently
been before. He appeared perfectly ealfliosaeseed and un-
disturbed, but reserved, as usual. He called for and drank
• bottle of soda water. He was always very abstemious,
and."eearly • teetotaller," forming in that respect a marked
entreat to his wife. While Hunt was standing ►t the bar
drinking his soda water, • gentleman with • black mous-
tache, end answering in every respect the police description
of the murderer entered the house and jocularly remarked
that "he wee suspected of the cab murders and he sup-
posed that it would be a cliokiag business with him."
Whether Hunt heard the remark does not appear certain,
bat he soon after left the house.

In less than half-an-hour a policeman ran in out of breath
and quite pole, and said to Mr. Hubble, the landlord of the
Tiger, Mr. Hunt was dying, poisoned, at the police station,
and that he wanted hot water for an antidote. Mr. Hubble,
thunderstruck at the news, took the necessary remedies
across to the station, where his late customer was expiring
in dreadful agonies.
He had evidently walked straight from the public-house
to his house, and wee about to go to bed when the police
knocked at the door. It is supposed by the police that he
discovered who was at the door, and on his way does-
stairs he turned into the room where the poisons were kept,
and swallowed the aconite. One of his first remarks to the in-
epectors was, " I feel I shall die. This is a queer sensation."
Bemired that Dr. Puckle should be sent for, it is 'apposed
merely because th►t gentleman lived a few hundred yards
farther off than other doctors, and he hoped thus to gals
time for the poems to act on the system. When the anti-
dotes were first administered, he resisted as well se he could,
and much time was lost in co sequence. When unconscious-
ness was coming on be was vigorously pinched, and as that
proems apparently revived him, up to the last moment it
was thought that his life would be saved.
Two policemen patrol the front of the house, which is
locked up, and so perm is allowed to enter it. The house
is situated within a few hundred yards of the spots where
the mounters Greenacre and Good murdered and then muti-
lated the women with whom they cohabited.