The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-31 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 31.

TUE case of Mum.= will add one of the
strangest to the list of our remarkable criminal
trials. It exhibits in a singular degree the differ-
ence between direct and circumstantial evidence ;
the testimony which cornea from an eye witness of
the deed, and the testimony which build, up con-
viction through a series of separate and, at first
eight, disconnected facts. Who could have dreamt that
when Mr. BEIGGS, on the one hand, and iNIULLER,
ou the other, each purchased some months before
a new bat, they were doing an act which should
ultimately lead to the identification of the one as
the murderer of the other Or who could have
thought that the transmission of an ordinary tele-
graphic message on the fatal day between two per-
sons entirely unconnected with the deed should be
the means of fixing the presence of the murderer
in the close neighbourhood of his victim on their
common journey homewards? Yet from the com-
parison of a number of such slight and trivial cir-
cumstances a conviction was at last wrought in the
minds of the jury that Mum.x•—• man of quiet
and harmless habits, whom none had seen that
night within many miles of the scene, on whose
person and clothes no signs of guilty violence had

ever been remarked—was the one man in all Lon-

don by whom a• most violent and ruthless murder
. had been committed. We shall now try to lay
before our readers the chain of evidence by which
his guilt was established, changing it into a more
natural order than that in which, by the counsell
on both sides, it was adduced before the Court.
On Saturday, the 9th of July, Mr. Bamos,
whose residence was at Clapton, dined in the
house of his nephew, Mr. BocaLN, at Peckham,
at five o'clock. He left, accompanied by his
nephew, at half-past eight, and entered an omnibus
in the Old Kent•rosd, on his way to the Fen.
church-street station, whence, according to his
custom, he would take the North London Railway
to his home. He carried a heavy stick and a
black bag, and being fearful of missing the train,
he several times in his walk to the omnibus pulled
out his watch—a gold one—attached by a gold
chain to his waistcoat. At Fenchurch-street he
was recognised by FISHBOIALSR, the ticket collector,
who marked his ticket. The train ought to have
started at 9.45, but it was five minutes late, con-
sequently the guard Ames did not examine the
tickets in the carriages before starting. It left the
Bow station at 10.1, and three or three-and-a-
half minutes more brought it to Hackney Wick.
At this last station two clerks in the same bank
as Mr. Demos seated themselves in an empty
carriage. But almost immediately they found
their hands marked with blood, and called to
the guard. He brought a light and discovered spots
of blood—not large, for the largest is described as
not exceeding the aize of a sixpence--sprinkled
on all the cushions, and one or two on the windows
of the side next the platform, and nearest the engine,
or on the left in entering the carriage. This blood was
afterwards proved by Dr. LE-runty to be human,
and to have been living when abed, and the spots
on the window were mixed with particles of brain
matter. On the seat next to this window was
found Mr. Baloos' black bag, marked with blood,
and his heavy stick also smeared with blood,
except about six inches from the top. On one
cushion was a mark like the wiping of a bloody

hand. The outaide handle of the further door was

bloody, and there was a little blood also on the
wheels and atop. His hat was not in the carriage,

but there was a strange hat much crushed. Soon
afterwards the guard of a train coming from the
opposite direction observed something lying on the
way between the two lines of rails, about seven
hundred yards from the Hackney station. It was
found to be the body of Mr. BRIGGS, still breath-
ing but insensible. His head was lying in the
direction in which his train had been going ; from
which the LORD CHIEF BARON drew the inference
that he must have been pushed out feet foremost
—not, we may remark, quite a necessary conclu-
sion. On the top of his head were several
wounds, extensively fracturing the skull, which in
the opinion of the surgeons must have been com-
mitted with a blunt instrument, and near the ear
was a wound which they thought might have been
made by a stone on the ground. In his pockets
some gold and silver were found, on his finger a
diamond ring. Hs died the following night,
without having spoken coherently.
_ _

The train of facts which connected MCLLIER with
this mysterious and terrible deed were as follows :
—lle was a German tailor, who had been several
years in this country, but had lately formed the in-
tention, which he expressed to several persons, of
going to America. A week or so before the 9th
of July, HAFIA, another German tailor, had seen
gold and silver in hie hand, and it was proved that
the weekly wages in his trade might be 30 or 35
shillings, but he was frequently reduced to the
necessity of borrowing sm►ll sums, and of pawning
• gold watch and chain that he possessed. They
were in pawn on the 9th of July. For several
weeks prior to that day he had lodged with Mr.
and Mrs. Ihrrwr, Old Ford-road, very near to
the Hackney Wick station. On the morning of
that day he went out to work at the shop of
Itxrauf, also a German tailor. RUSCH and his