The Express.
London, England, 1864-09-27 00:00:00

'RESS, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER TT, 1864,

EXAMINATION OF MULLER AT BOMSTREET.

The substance of tits following evidence with
which the enemies' Eon of Muller at the Bow-thniet police
court yesterday was brought to a close, appeared in tLu
later edition of feat eight's Express :
Frederick William Thome —I live at 46, Hattieldotreet,

Stamford-street, Blackfrianeead. I am —a
hat manufse:
tune% I made the hat produced. It contains my private
mailc. I finished that kat for Ur. Diptsoa. It is not in
the same condition now as when I finished it, The hat
has been cut down. The work is sot done as a hatter
would do it. This has been sewn together. A hatter would
Wok it together with a hot hoc end pm, and that would
necessitate the use of a block. Braider, the silk around
the band has been taken down for the purpose of cutting fa,
and piste has been used to restick it, which a batter would
not me for the purpose.
By Kr. Flowers—l should my it was neatly dome, in my
opinion.
This wittier was not croasezmoined.
Simnel Tidmarab sworn. He mid—l live in Church.
street. Hackney. I am • watchmaker. I knew the late
Mr. Thomas Briggs for eaves or eight years. He was s
customer of raise. I believe I know the watt* produced
(watch produced). I know this was Mr. Brigp's watch.
On the 6th of February. 1863. I Gleamed it for him theta,
and I have the number is my books. beide the case there
are figures mad* by me in February, on the comics of my
cleaning it.

Monies Fiabboorne sworn—l live at 30, Locerstreet,
Oommercial.road. lam one of the ticket collectors at the
Fenobarah-street station of the Blackwell Railway. I
attend at the bottom of the stain leading to the North Lon-
don trains platform for the purpose of examining and mark.
is 4 the tickets as they come in, and knew the late Mr.
Briggs by sight. I saw him on Saturday night, the 9th of
July, about a quarter to 10 o'clock. He was in time to go
by ibe quarter to 10 train. He spoke to me, and I answered
him at the door. My attention was called to this matter
on Sunday, at 4 o'clock is the afternoon. I than, with
lir=oonystable Lambert, wept to see Mr. Brigp at
Edward Duggan, 71 K—l was on duty in Bow-lane at
• quarter met 10 o'clock on the night of the 9th of July.
I bawd • cry that there was & MIA on the line. I saw •
man carried off the line by several moons. He was
taken to the Milford Arms public-hown. I washed him.
I found one black stud in the shirt bosom. The shirt was
meal rumpled in front. [The stud was produced.] In
his left-hand trousers-pocket I found four sovereigns and a
bunch of keys. The keys have bee returned to the bank,
so that I cannot produce them. In the left breast pocket
wee a florin and the half of • railway ticket. In the right-
hand Motown-packet be. 6d. in silver and copper. In the
side coat pocket was a number of kitten by which I iden-
tified him, also some newspapers, and a diamond ring on
the left band little finger. There was a patent festering to
the waistcoat button hole. I did Dot understand taking it
oat, and I left it there. I saw the place where the body
was found. I measured the distance from that spot to the
Bow station, and found It to be 1,434
_yards. I made it 740
yards to the Hackney-wick station. The entire length of
the line from Bow to Hackney-wick is one mile 41 yenta
from station to station.

iili;;i4;;Tiii;-proceediap, the court adjotvued for
ten minutes.

At the coeclusion of tbeadjournment,
Benjamin Eaose, sworn, rid—l am a guard, No. IR, on
the North London Railway. I wee the guard of the train
that left Fenchnrchatreet Station at 9.50 p.m., on the night
of the 9th of July last. The train wee five minutes late at
starting. The same train arrives and goes tack. We were
tea minutia late in arriving—that made us five minutes late
in starting. On the train arriving at Hackney, my atten-
tion wee drawn to a first-class carriage. This woo about
half a minute after the train stopped. The compartment to
which my attention wee called was a first-clue one, neared
&sewing, numbered 69. I ran and got my lamp. I found
the gentleman there who called my attention to it. The
carriage door wee open. The gentleman told me he
upended it himself. On examining the carriage
I found spota of blood on the near aide cushion,
and on the quarter light on the near side the mark of
blood and blood trickling down from the glees. The
blood wee about the Use of a crown piece. I tried if the
door had been opened on the off side. It wee clued, and
upon the handle there were mark' of blood. I found the
handles damp, and on examining my head I saw it wee
blood, I found a bat and stick under the Hat, The hat
wee crushed up like that—something like that (hat pro-
duced). I found a stick and bag. The bag wee on the meat,
on the engine side. 1 left the stick, bag, and hat in the
carriage mita we arrived at Chalk Farm. I saw Mr. Green-
wood, the station master, at Chalk Farm. I telegraphed
to him from Hackney. I pointed out the carriage to Lb];
and gave him possession of the articles. The carriage wa
again locked op, and proceeded to Bow on ita journey, and
it was these placed in a shed, and ham not been since used.
The train took to run from Bow to Hackney-wick on the
night in question about three and a half minutes.

Greesiwood sworn—l am station master el the
li CGalTarni station of the North London Railway. On
Saturday night, July 9th, Eines showed me a compart-
ment of a Brat elass carriage in the train of which he had
been guard. I got from the compartment a hat, a bag, and
Wok. There are three articles (articles produced). Next
morning I gave them to the police.

Inspector Walter Kerrisay, of the K Division, Bow, sworn
On the 10th of July, at ten in the morning, I went to the
Bow railway @cation. I maw is • shed there No. 69 first
class carriage. The off side handle of the door was bloody.
I then went to 5, Claptoe-square, and saw Mr. Briggs. I
examined his hands to see if there were any marks of blood
upont them.
Brigi There no
tcoat. . marks., lamno, tied a bookd on
took
it off
in my presence, and gave it to me. I now produce it.
I also produce the goldcbain Mr. Death identifies. I received
it from Mr. Death. I also produce a jump ring I received
from Sergeant Prescott. I received it in the presence of Mr.
Brenton, the surgeon.
By Mr. Beard—l saw the deceased about nine o'clock on
Sunday morning.
Francis Toulmin sworn—l live at Lower Clspron, and am
a surgeon. I was for many years the medical attendant of
the late Mr. Briggs. I saw him on Sunday morning, the
9th of July, between two and three o'clock. I saw him at
the Mitford Arms, • public-house io the neighbourhood of
Old Ford. He was removed to his own house under my
supervision. He was removed betweee the hours of six and
inert o'clock that morning. I saw him before sine o'clock
agars at his own house. I saw him repeatedly during the day,
till just before he died. He died at • quarter to twelve I
o'clock on the Sunday. I made a postmorhe examination
of the body on Tuesday, the 12th. Mr. Brereto• and
other medical gentlemen were present On the left ear,
when I examined the body, was • jagged wound that di-
vided the cartilage. Anterior to that, more forwards to-
wards the eyebrow, was a deeper wound penetrating to the
bone, but was subsequently found not to have entered the
cavity of the cranium. On the male there were several in-
cised wounds, most of them being about three-quarters of
an inch in length. There must have been four or five.
One, however, was three inches long. On removing the
Beale the skull was found to be extensively fractured, the
fissure@ extending in various directions. The temporal bone
was found driven in and comminuted. On miming the skull
cap much blood was found between the bone and the dun
mater. There was also • considerable effusion of blood
between the dun mater and the brain itself. No disease
was discovered in heart, lunge, or liver. The cause of deatb
I consider to be fracture of the skull and compression of the
brain. I should consider the wounds inflicted on the skull
were done with a blunt instrument forcibly used.
Croes-examined by Mr. Beard—Mr. Brereton and Mr.
Cooper were present when I first saw the deceased in the
morning. He was removed in • dooly or litter. It was
not a shell. We got it from the union. It was not a shell
—it was a litter. Mr. Brereton and Mr. Cooper assisted
at the post-mortem examioation. I am not aware they
disagree with me. The lungs were examined. lain not
aware they have refused to concur with me. Mr. Briggs
married a cousin of mine. On the wound on the ear were
grit and sand, and also on the wound on the temple. There
was • wound on the top of the head. I saw no grit on it.
' Mr. Cooper *bowed me • stone at the inquest. I did not
ascertain that that stone corresponded with the wound on
the head. It would be impossible to say which wound
caused death.

Re-examined—lf the deceased fell on the six.foot way
sand sod grit would get into the wounds after the► were
inflicted. I saw the atone referred to. If the decreed
fell upon that stone it might hare produced each a wound
as wagon the side f the temple. The other wounds could
not have been produced by the same fun. It was simply
impossible. tr. Brenton sad Mr. Oooper did not, I think,
take notes. I read my notes to them, and no objection
wee made.

By Mr. Flowers—There was no direct objection. There
was no objection raised.
Alfred Hoary Brenton, surgeon, of Old Bow-road,
sworn—l was sent for about eleven o'clock oe the 9th of
July to go to the Mittord Arms to set Mr. Briggs. He
was stretched on a table, and I removed hint to an
upper room. He was placed so • mattress on a table.
He suffered apparently from compression of the brain, and
he vomited. I found a jagged wound across the cartilage of
tin left ear ; also another wound in front of the same ear.
Above the tune ear there was • scalp tumour, or swelling.
Oo the veins of the bead there were two severe wounds,
and the scaly was more or leas grazed over ; there were outs
all over it, in addition to the two wounds. I endeavoured
to restore reaction. I attended him until six o'clock nazi
moruing, Sunday, the 10th of July, but (salmi to restore re-
action. I examined the line where the body was found in
the morning, at three o'clock. I left a surgeon with Mr.
Briggs. I went with my brother and a railway porter, and
I found it the middle of the six-foot way • !snood of earth
saturated with blood. I saturated an envelope with it to
satisfy ao)self it was blood. I found a round smooth
stone at the spot, in the centre of the blood. It bad
blood and hair upon it. I afterwards, about I; o'clock the
same morning, examined the firstylan railway carriage
pointed out to me at Bow. Oo the off side no one of the
cushioos there was a patch of blood of the size of a half-
crown, and on the opposite side a smear of blood as if some
one Lad wiped his finger on the cushion. I found blood
spurted on the off side panels externally, the iron step, and
the woodsy rails that runs throughout the whole, on the
foot board, and the hind wheel of the carriage. The blood
in the carriage was quit* fresh, still liquid. I tumid a liak
of a gold chafe embedded into the mat on the year side, I.
frost of the seat that had so much blood on it. I was pre-
sent at the post mortem examination, but took no part's it.
I observed it sufficiently to speak of the cause of death.
Fracture of the skull, peodnciog compression of the brain,
wee the mule of death.

By Mr. Flowers—The greater quantity of blood was on
the near side next the engine. The blood filled up the
epees about the buttons.
lespector Richard Tanner sworn—l am one of the is-
sof detective polies. By direction of Sir Richard
thyme, on the 19th of July I accompanied Sergeant Clark
an hoard • yawl leaving for America. I boarded the
Victoria on the 25th August in the harbour of New York,
and found the prisoner on board. I placed the prisoner
with nine ether man in the Wool) of the ship, leaving Hr.
Death on beak. Mr. Death then went below, and pointed
out the prisoner, and rid he was the man from whom he
bad received the chain. I afterwards spoke to him with
reference to a ring on the same morning. I told him
I was • London omoer, and held a warrant charging him
with the murder of Mr. Briggs ; that he would have
to undergo an examination in America, and he would have
to come to Euglaod with me as • prisoner to answer the
charge. I then said, have you stated you have lost • ring
He said, " Yee, sir ; if I have not lost it, it must be stolen
trans my pocket.' I said, " What kind of • ring was it. I
will endeavour to have it found," and he maid, ' A ring with
a stone in it." I said, " A red stone." He said, " No, a
white stone." I asked him if it was a plain stone, and he
said, " No, • stone with a bead on it. I bought it ia
atespaide, and gave is. 6d. for it. I don't know the name
al the shop." The ring was not found. I took pommies
of the prisoner's effects on board. I showed him what I
was toting, and he said that was all. The only missing
thing was the ring. I heard the witness Gifford describe
the parcel the prisoner brought to the dock. I have
not been able to find any such parceL I searched
particularly for that. The prisoner said the whole of his
things were in the black box, and that was not more than
quarter full. I brought the prisoner to England on the
17th of September.
To Mr. Beard—l took several papers out of his box.
Mr. Beard—Then I have to apply to sea those papers.
Mr. Giffard —I dare say there will be no objection. That
is the ease on the part of the Crown.
Mr. Beard—At the present moment I do not intend to
enter into any defence on the part of the prisoner. It will
all be rererved to a future day.

ilie---n;inei;;rtliesevetil witnesses were then called
over, sad all parties having answered to their names they
were bound over to prosecute st the next serious to be
holden at the Ceetnl Criminal Court, which will he held
on the 24th of October next.

The prisoner ineihMiOrmally committed for trial on •
charge of wilfully murderinaMr. Brigp.
Before his committal,
Mr. Flowers mid—As a matter of form, I now ask you
have you anything to say. bat, as you have a legal adviser, I
su you will say nothing.
Haller—l have nothing to say now.
The prisoner was then removed.
Upon the court being cleared after the removal of the
prisoner from the dock, the efflux of spectator and others
from the building into the street conveyed to the expectant
crowd without, that the proceedings had terminated. It
sy became know that the pisoner was com-
mittedpeedil for trial, soda would shortly be removed.
From that moment the crowd anameeted ra-
pidly in numbers and the excitement kr:reseed,
till the scene approached more nearly, than at any previous
period of the day, to that which had been witnessed on the
former occanon. In about an hour the van arrived, and
Moller was led out from the court, guarded as usual by a
number of constables, and cooveyed to the van. Groans
and yells agaia arose from the crowd, who now broke
through the ranks of the police stationed at some distance
above and below the court to keep them back. Having
swept through this barrier, the infuriated mob made a rush
at the van, but before they could reach it Muller had been
eafely lodged inside and the door was closed. The black,
ungainly vehicle was driven away, and the crowd divided in
two parties, one pursuing the van with shouts and execs-
tima, while the rest remained bowling behind. Even these
soon began to straggle off to crowd the gin shops which
abound in the neighbourhood, and the concourse in Bow-
street gradually fell away, till by dusk it was wholly dis-
persed.