The Express.
London, England, 1863-11-09 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 9, 1863.

P2OIIIAME

TOZEDAT. oi ma WICLISEIDAY.
N.E. to W., moderate Noturit4wW. W. to N. and E., fresh
to fresh, some rain to strong, One.
or snow In places.
N.L to N.W., fresh. iris? COMMIS. N.W. to E. and hack,
modeaste to stron.
N. to E, moderate to Botnileoseta. N. to E. aad 8 E., utgo.
stream toe. dente to strong.
As next above. SOUTH-EASP. As nett above.
Neeth-East.Calthneas to Lincoln. Weatsaionagd to Corn-
wall. South=Channel and 11. Coasts. Soap-East =Strait of
Doves to Lincolnshire and He

TEI OUTWARD AMERICAN MAIL.--QUERNSTOWN,
Nov. B.—Tbe Royal Mail eteammitip Persia arrived here at
5.30 p.m. to-day. Bbe embarked mails. passeogers, and the
latest telegrams. and proceeded for New Yore. All well.
The Persia impsriessosd Wvara sad thick *valise from Liver.
Pte•
CROPS IN AREANRAR.—Late advice; from the
interior of Arkansas my that the rips were never known
to be better. Grain of all kinds i abundant, and cotton is
dote( remarkably welt The forests are fall of game, not
hams been bunted for nearly two years. The mope will
of wane fall into our bands, thus istlicniag a severe blow
on the rebel.—Pew York Herald.

Commander Hay, RN., naval examiner to the
Royal Nall Company, hen Jut published is his sixth edition
of is valuable work on British Channel Pilotage, son",
useful tables for correcting shine compaaara, and for aster.
taioias the rate of speed of steamers by a measured mile.
also the appearance of the different land marks at the
eatraeee of and in the British ChainieL

TRIPLE MURDER IN A STREET CAB.

Between eight and nine o'clock on Saturday even-
ing a man murdered a woman, supposed to be his wife, and
two girls, supposed to be hie children, in a eab whisk he
had hired to convey them from the Great Eastern Railway
static. at Shoreditch to the Royal Oak Tavern at Padding-
ton. The train by which the members of thin unhappy
family travelled arrived at the Shorrditch station at half-
put eight o'clock, and on leaving it the man called a nab,
in which he first placed the woman and the two children
and then entered himself, directing the driver to take theni
to the Royal Oak. On their passage through Bishopegate-
street; the man suddenly pulled up the driver at a public-
house called the Green Dragon, and requested him to get
• pint of beer. The beer Ira' brought to the cab, and the
man having partaken of some of it, gave the remainder to
the woman and children, and the journey was proceeded
with. On reaching Victoria-street, at the foot of Holborn-
hill, the man again stopped the driver and got out of theca's,
paying him 44.6 d., being his fare, anddirecting him todrive hie
passengers on to Paddington, he himself going up Victoria-
street in the direction of Clerkenwell. The driver obeyed
lli iestruetions, and drove three dead bodies to Paddington.
From what has since transpired it seems very clear that
when the cab-driver pulled up at the Green Dragon, and
handed the man the pint of beer, be drank of it, and then
put into it a quantity of prussic acid.he bed in his pomemion.
The administration of the deadly poison at the Green Dragon
in Bishopagate•street at about twenty minutes before nine
would account for the deaths by the time the cab
reached Victoria-street, and Hire is every rea-
son to suppose that the murderer watched the mid
action of the poison, and that on reaching Victoria-street
finding all dead, made his escape. The cabman, noon-
scions of what his cab contained, drove his fare to the
Royal Oak, and upon the discovery being made the bodies
were conveyed to Bt. Mary's Hospital, where in due course
Dr. Lankester will bold an inquest.

The descriptions, as circulated by the police, are as
follows :—The female is supposed to be aged 34, height
5 feet 2 inches, stout, complexion fair, hair light brown ;
dress black alpaca, ditto woollen shawl, red striped petti-
coat, two brown crinolines, two flannel pettiecata (new)e
calico chemise, white stockings, cashmere side-laced boots
(patent toes), black straw bonnet, wore • small plated
brooch, black fall, hair net. First child, • girl, aged
7, complexion fair, hair light brown, dress—black
frock, black sealskin jacket, two flannel petticoat.,
two calico chemises (one new), white stockings, leather
boots with bright small buttons, white straw bat trimmed
with black ribbon ; wore • hair•net and white woollen oom-
toner ; on the paean • white cambric handmaid marked
"E.M.11." in ink, and round the body an elastic belt.
Sewed child, a girl aged five, complexion fair, hair light
brown ; dress—a black frock, grey cloth jacket, pearl but-
tons in front, and black silk ape; two flannel petticoats,
two calico chemises (one new), white socks, leather lace
boots, speckled straw hat trimmed with black velvet and
ribbon ; wore • light comforter, and around the body an
deaths belt. The man is about thirty-five years of
age, height 5 feet 5 inches, alight built, corn
plexion dark ; hair, whiskers, aid moustache black ;
dress black, and black hat. Can be identified. There
was found in the cab three lilac petticoat (ace large, two
small) tied in • black cotton apron, one white handkerchief,
• new black and brown cloth cap lined with red silk, amall
leather strap, • brown leather bat-case, containing some figs
and biscuits; • brown leather square portemonnaie with
steel frame, containing five shillings in silver, balance
farthing in coppers, and two postage stamps.
The bodies of the unfortunate victims have been stripped,
and in the breast of the woman was (mad • box of oiet•
ment. It was labelled " William Hunt, Camberwell ;
zinc ointment." The police have waited upon Mr. Heat,
and he at once mid that the ointment had been purchased
at his shop, and that the writing was his own, but he
could not remember to whom he had sold it, as it was an
article that was frequently asked for. From the clean ap
pearance of the box he had no doubt that it had come from
his house within the past few days.
The cabman has made • statement to the polio. to the
effect that he did not think that the parties bad arrived
from the country, for although be was engaged in the station
yard, the woman first came from the "departure" side, and
not from the " arrival "side. His impression from the hur-
ried way in which he was addressed was that the woman had
missed the train, and was anxious to hasten home.
The police have had four pots headed to them by Mr.
Parson., of the Green Dragon, wine and spirit Mores,
Bishopegate-street Without, one of which it was stated was
the one taken out by the cabman. They have been
examined, but nothing poisonous was found in them. The
cabman, however, states that when the man handed him
the pot from the cab window he held it upside down, so
that the dregs went on to the pavement.
The cabman, in answer to inquiries as to whether he saw
who drank from the pot, replied that he could not say, as
he had • email quantity of gin, for which the man paid,
and whilst the inmates of the cab had the pot inside,
he was standing at his horse's head. To account for his
not seeing whether the woman sod children were
alive when the man got out, he states that the man when
he got out abut the door, and went and spoke to him
or. the box. There was nothing particular in the man's
appearance to excite his suspicion.
From what came to the knowledge of the police yesterday
afternoon, an official from the railway was requested to
view the bodies, for the purpose of seeing whether he could
ideutify them. It would appear that a lady, with two
children, has been making anxious inquiries after her
husband, who she stated had deserted her and run away
with her servant.

Last evening the official referred to &Mailed at the dead-
house, but failed in identifying the deceased, and the police
are as far off as ever in getting any clue to the murderer.
In addition to the deecriptios given by the police informs:
tiou of the deceased woman, it may be stated that she wore
false curls, had a scar on the right side of the head just
behind the ear, as if from a scald or a burn,and had very dark
eyebrows and eyeluhes. The woman and the children were
stout, and were apparently in perfecrbodily health at the
time of de►th, and the children bore a strong resemblance to
the unfortunate woman. The surgeon at the hospital stated
that der.th had been almost instantaneous, and the whole of
the deceased appeared to hare expired without a struggle.
The whole of the clothing taken from the deceased can be
seen at the Pella-station, Paddington-green.
Information has been forwarded to the coroner, and the
inquest, it is understood, will be held to-day.
Whilst the police were engaged in endeavouring to appre-
hend the supposed murderer, information was received at
the police-station that a man answering the description
given by the cabdriver had been found dead in bed at •
coffee-holm in Southwark, and that he hail committed
suicide by taking laudanum. The information was as fol•
lows : " Died suddenly, supposed from poison, • ma., woe
supposed to be C. Roll, aged 40, height 5 feet 8,
complexion dark, dark moustache, dress, dark tweed
coat, Wellington boots, deer-stalker cap, striped flannel
shirt." The de ceseed said he came from Wake when he
mitered the coffee-shop. On his person was found se. 111 d.,
two phials, labelled poison, and a comb and knife.
. . _

The cabman was as soon as possible taken to the coffee.
hour; but be at once said that thedeceased wee not therm
who rode in his cab.

LATEST PARTICULA.IO3.-(THIS DAY.)

The announcement of this extraordinary murder in this
morning's papers has caused • great excitement at the
West-end, and numbers of people have been making
anxious inquiries at the police-station in Hermitagoetreet,
and also at St. Vary's Hospital, but nothing of much im-
portance has occurred.
The landlord of the Goma Dragon public-bouse, in
Bishopegatostreet, says he perfectly well recollects Parker,
the cabman, coming into his house on Saturday night, and
being served with the half-and-half. and himself with three
halfpennyworth of gin, as alre►dy reported. Before he (the
cabman) took the beer out he asked for the change. Tho
landlord told him that his practice wa■ to give the change
when the pot was brought heck. With this the cab-
man took the beer out, and as he was outside some
considerable time the landlord went out with the seven-
pence-halfpenny change, sod gave it to the cabman, who
handed back the pot. The landlord then saw the man
inside the cab and would be able to identify him again.
When the cabman opened the door at the Royal Oak, he
saw the woman and the two children huddled at the
bottom, one on the top of the other. This morning he says
his first impression was that they had been drinking more
freely than he had at first imagined. He shook the woman,
but as she did not move he took the youngest
child in his arms and found it quite stiff,
He dropped it again and jumped back into the middle of
the pavement, where be stood transfixed with horror. The
Royal Oak being a place of great traffic, the parlors by see-
ing the cabman in such a state ran to the cab, where the
truth became apparent that all were dead. Mr. Henry