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

THE EXPRESS, F1:11LA Y LVENING, NOVEMBER 11, Sr 4;

got under doubtful circumstances, and he probably was
under great etuh.rnisiiment about it when apprehended.
Had he known (bet the chain was that of Mr. Briggs's, it
meredible that he could have given the Lox which he
received twin Mr. Dreth to Matthews, child as a plaything,
for he most have been guiltily auspidous that that box
would be ideotilied and traced to him.

Jacob Weist. porter at Mr. White's, proved at the ,1
trial that be bad moo Muller several times at the
London pork•. He now adds that three or four
days befogs Muller sailed. be saw him there cue morning ;
IVi.t wax hot at the drake on either Saturday or Tuesday,
and therefore, L < believes that it was on the Monday morn-
tog before he sailed that he saw Muller. There are declara-
tions that the pedlar described was in the habit of Ire- •
ipieuting the 'Like, and that he ceased to do so about the
period when the police were engaged in the discovery of the
murderer. Muller describes the pedlar who sold him the
watch and chain as being a man of middle um ; he had •
lean face with prominent check bones, brown whiiikers, sod
shaven chin ; Le had a littleacaron the lip. He wore a Melton
mon tug coat. Toss us nearly sa posse isle corresponds with the
description of the mimiug man. This pedlar has since been
discovered ; he admits that lie sold • gold chain and •
watch about July to • person in the docks;
but he that the watch was silver. It is submitted
that this last assertion cannot be wholly relied upon, and
that the coincidence is so extraordinary that Muller at New
York should base asserted this fact, and that it should be
discovered to he true in the most material perticulare,that a
respite of Moller is imperatively demanded by the exigen-
cies of publie justice for • more full investigation as
to where the pedlar got these articles, and what he
aithesquently dal with them. It was from Muller's de-
aiiiiption of him solely that he was traced out and dim-
vsi ed. The prooage•woney bad exhausted Muller's finances.
He sold his coat and trousers on the voyage, and bad twelve
shillicgs in hit pocket when apprehended. This accounts
for the non-production of his clothing, which was mach so
much of at the trial. It ts certain that he was so reduced
in lIIA tine! era, when he was about to le►ve London, that he
could not Lave paid his passage-money bad be not pledged
his coat for the tia. before mentioned. No person who west
out in Has aiiip could prove that Muller had cut down the
bat durirg tee voyage. It was proved to have been ironed
after it wee cut jowl.. If be borrowed an iron on board
ship, the fact should have been proved. It is un-
' likely in the extreme that he did so on the Sunday, as Mr.
and Mrs. Myth declare that be was with them all that day,
• and the, loth noise in stating that they did not notioe him
with • new hat. Mrs. Blyth positively avers that from the
' time when Muller entered her lodgings until he left, she
never saw hut one bat with him : the prosecution did not
veotuie to pct into her hand at the trial either of the hate
which *die supposed to prove Muller's guilt. The truth is,
the hat was cui down soon after he bought it, and it was
cut before he went to lodge with Blyth.
In the a'oence ii! direct evidence, while the indirect evi-
dence is eta dountful or suspicious Datum, Muller's elm.
reeler should be thrown into the sub; his demeanour since
his arrest, and even since his condemnation, has been that
of • man who is not guilty of the crime of murder. And
his whole previous career is as much at variance with the
perpetration of tl.e crime, as hit physics! and nervous
temp•inment render him apparently incapable of it. The
highest pos-ible evidence as to Muller's character, respect-
ability, industry, gentlemen, and playfulness, was ready;
it is not known why it was not offered. Since his convic-
tion the following letter has been received

1, at. zwabln's4ane. King William-street,
London, Nov. 3, 1684.

M. Lasker. —cor.—After reading the report of the German
Leal •to,to o. SEK Itt).6 meeting hod evering nod tindiug by
that r,cadence of so owl el./atter would perhaps be ben--
Octal to the a I vt,114,1 elan now doomed to dve, I could therefore
no 1.4,....er refrain in on si...tarrying a letter to you upon that sub.
Pet. t rar Muller was in our employ from the 7th of Norm.
ber. wail the 7111 of May, loth theiefore he had only left
us ah,qit eight weeks previous. to the loth of July. A better and
m• 7.- :Ottani a ortinan we mover had. fly his respectable &p-
-i • met, and gentle manners. he won ,411.4
cite eLtire confident, 3.4 was looked utaiu with respect by all
our Ottivr vlaaio 11. U,tb myself and partner gave him greater
heel. st an is utird trim employers to their workmen. That
conibleneo it I not merely consist in trusting him with our
goods to mai, up, we have ou several occasions trusted hire
with stuns of DIM.), and we never found him abuse the confi-
dence we p aced w hint. If the knowledge I have of his uniform
goo., • oidnct donne. that period will now be of any service to
him. I would come toward ; if, on the other hand, you attach
no value to this letter, you will oblige me by putting it aside as
useless, as I should not wish m) name brought forward without
there is a chance of its doing good to the young mar:know doomed
to die. I canoot rov.onelle myself to believe that a man with so
many really good qualities could commit so foul a crime.—l
&in, sir, y. ere ododivutl), It. STCVMS.

It is not reasonable to suppose that a man who bad
committed a murder of this terrible description, when the
hue and my was raised all through London, would be coolly
walking shout the streets, and would openly exhibit his
newly al:tinned hat and chain and ring which he knew to
be connected with the crime. Would he dispose of the
chain to a respectable jeweller, where it would be most
likely to be detected! would be not rather @ell it in some
haunt of thieves! Would he openly declare has intention
to leave the country, and tell all bas friends the name of the
ship be was going in, while he took his passage in his own
name! His tietural cheerfulness and kindliness of temper
never were seen to change ; though if be bad been guilty it
is impossible but that be must have exhibited some agita•
tion, some trace. of inward or external excitement and
alarm. Yet nose was ever settee.

If It to conceded—sod it was virtually conceded at the
trial—that Muller was at Jones's at all that evening, the
dates conclusively show that be could not be at Fel:l-
-aunch-street at 0.50. He parted with Haft at Jewry-
street, Minorite, tot before 7.45 ; this was ten aunties'
walk frig tinecechtrch•treet, and he could only catch
the eight o'clock omnibus to Camberwell-gate. It
takes twenty-five minutes to ride from Orscecburch.
street to Camberwell-gate ; and to walk from thence
to Veinal-street at a moderate pace by • lame man
with • slipper could hardly be dais in twenty-five minuted;
—that takes us to 8.50. Is is in evidence that be stayed
five or ten minutes ; aesume that he left doses abut nine,
he would urns at Camberwell-gate at 9.25 or 9.110. He
could not anive there for an earlier omnibus cet tainly than
9.25. This would bring him to Gracocharchotreet at 9.50.
From thence to Feochurchotreet is about five minutes,
making it ti. 5.5 ; but the evidence conclusively showed that
the 9.45 train, a few minutes behind its time, started at
9.50. On the whole, it is improbable that be could have
caught all those omnibuses and trains at the exact moment
when be wanted them, and that he could have made
so wed-timed a race to commit murder. Muller
positively declares that he was the parucger in the
slipper who left Carole rwell-gate in the omnibus at 9.55.
The Lord Chief Baron told the Jury as follows : upon this
point (Times, 31.) " Between seven and eight o'clock
the prisoner was at Reputes ; he then left, taking his
boots with bit, saying be wee going to Camberwell. There
was plenty of came for him to bane gone to Camberwell,
• and to have returned." It is submitted that no the figures
just quoted, this direction of the learned judge wee too
unqualified. These figure' are ail absolutely true ; and
being so, they demonstrate that the judge was mistaken in
asserting that " there acs plenty of time."
! At the coroner's iuqueat the following important evi-
dence was glom by Townsend, • ticket porter at Hackney
Wick Station who collected the tickets of the train in
which Mr. Briggs had travelled. He said :—" We
keep the door locked till the tickets are collected. I remem-
ber that • man was very anxious to have the platform, and
went into the porter's room, thinking that it was the way
down. Hr see !Awl very impatient, and said, on being told
that the door would be opened in a moment, 'l) the
door, it ought to have bees opened before ; and he added
that he would report ere. I should know him again. The
station la on an embankment. We have rather a rough lot
there at times." Muller was shown to this witness, but he
could not identify him es the men. Like Mr. Lee he was
not called by the crown. It is submitted that this is •en y re-
markable evolence,when taken in connection wtth what Mr.
Lee swore, and that this was probably one of the two men
seen by him in the carriage with Mr. Briggs. The other may
have escaptel down the embankment, which in steep, and not
traversable ho A wan who limped as Muller did on that
night. Observe, also, that this man, whoever he was, has
never cone forward to explain his remarkable conduct that
night. I!et the inquest was held so long ago as the 19th of
July last, und the crown might hare discovered him if he
were guiltless. A similar observation occurs sa to the two
persons seen by Mr. Lee. As it is impossible to assume
that he has wilfully perjured himself, how is it that neither
of these person a has ever come forward Their conceal-
ment of themselves can be accounted for oule on the
suppooit:on that they possess a guilty secret—and that they
were, in fact, the murderers of Mr. Briggs. It ie absurd to
believe all that Matthews says, and to disbelieve all that
Mr. Let swears.
A is noel. named Baron de Comma declares that on the
night of the molder. some time after tea o'clock, be lost his
going t- Ilackney-wick station, and toned himself in
Wallacr.ro,o+. Lear the canal, at a place about 100 or 150
yards flon. w Li re Ur. Bii,gs was found. He saw a tall
dark min •ho :ippea:ed stunned or drunk, and whose face,
Lands, .td chatting were covered with blood ; soother per-
son, appeared to be a workman, and who was there,
remarked that the man bad either been attacked or had
done some murder. This nun went in the direction of
the coral. it is suggested that this was the second
tarn who sat in the railway carriage; that in the
struggle with Mr. Briggs both rolled out of the earrings
together; that this moo escaped, and made towards the
canal for the purpose of cleansing himself, while his compa-
nion rode on to the station, and naturally expressed impa-
tieot anxiety, and perbair alarm, at finding the doer closed,
which he could not Is.l to feel hurter the circumstances that
autrounded Lion F. Magerkorth declares that about
eleven on the same night. a man is a very ex-
cited manner offered him • heavy gold old-fashioned
watch fur I Hit hair WAS dark ; be hail an alpaca
coat sod dark trousers. F. ,lagerkorth's wife was with
him, sod she says she thinks she would know the watch
again. F. slagerkorth refused to buy the watch. He
gave iolormaileti to the police • lay or two after:
yet the police never showed Brigp' watch to F. Mager-
kortb's wife. This took place at Cable-street, St. George's
in the East ; aid if the man who exhibited impatience at
Hackney to get away from the station was the person who
offered the watch to F. Magerkorth, he could easily have
got from the station to the place where F. Msgerkoth met
him. A circunisteoce so pointedly singular as this dent...Ws
• rigid and ihunediate inquiry.
It was not shown that Muller was it any way acquainted
with this particular railway line—it was sever suggested
that the murder was premeditated by him ; yet it is sup-
posed that this poor tailor got into a first class carriage, with
the chance prescut to hiu mind of his being able to kill or
rob soup-iraiy tai a minute or two, ready •rnied and prepared
with a deadly inatruseeut. Such an hypothesis is fallacious.

All his aotecedenta negative the idea. It is more likely
that Suggs, she bank clerk, was known and followed
by some Loradoo thieve., who b.d watched for him sod
premeditated the murder cad *Do ta-rtaii,ly tried km
leathern bag befine they decamped, for blood was lomat
QO its beadle.

111ton/or were one of the two men seen I. the railway
camage—though Mr. Lee declares that be was not—it IS
bard to conceive how he could have beau found in poesession
of the whale of ohs property, as be would have bad to share
it with his confederate. It is more probable that be pur-
chased it all from one of these men, or from a Jaw accom-
plice of theirs afterwards, under eircumslauces that, whys
be came to reflect upon them, excited his own suspicious.
The persons who proved an ebb' bad no Internet whatever in
the acquittal of Muller. The full details of this alibi were
known iu Loudon to those interested in Lis defence long
before he was appreheuded in New York. It is clear also
that Muller was toned guilty because he was proved to to
comffsoted with anemia:some so suspicions that it
was difficult to believe ouch ciicumataaces could
be consistent with innocence. But it is submitted that this
is not a fair way of arriving at a c .reclusion so momentous,
beaus° there are many circumstances of the greatest weight
connected with his case equally indicative of his innocence;
in other words there are nearly as great difficulties to
arriving at • oonalasioa of Muller's guilt as there are iu
concluding that lie is wholly innocent. Instance the fol-
lowing :—let. Thie‘lohyeical improbability, sod almost im-
possibility, that a silight young man, destitute of any large
amount of strength, and to some extent disabled of the use
of one limb, could in the space of two or three minutes
overpower and throw out of the carriage a men so much
larger, heavier, and more powerful—the same man not
having beau asleep, nor likely to be so in the short interval
between his getting into the carriage and speaking to Mr.
Lee and the moment when he was attacked. Then must
have been a desperate and deadly struggle, body to body
—the !limber of the wounds and their position, end
the heaving out of the body, would indicate more than one
assailant ; and Muller was not shows to hare ever possessed
such an instrument as would have indicted the wounds
found on Mr. Briggs. That an omnibus conductor should have
taken up a passenger with a slipper is a carious incident ;
but how could Muller know this At the very moment
when be was asserting it in New York, a bod 7 of gentle-
men, entire straogers to him, were bent on making the dis-
covery in London, three thousand miles away. There is so
coincidelice offered in support of his guilt more wonderful
than this coincidence, discovered by chance, is io favour of
his innocence. The disordered cushion and general state of
the carriage are evidences of a struggle between Mr. Briggs
and his aasailant. It ea dißicult to suppose that in this
contlact the attacking party would not have some bruise, or
scratch, or mark on his face or hands. Yet none was ever
seen on Moller.

Various statements supposed to have been mtde by
Muller in prison to Mr. Beard, since his conviction, have
appeared in some of the London papers. The memorialists
believe that the greater portion of these statements are
doubtful, aad that Muller ought tot to be judged by them.
Some of the public have asked why did not Muller give any
account to the police how he bee►ms possessed of certain
articles! It should be borne in mind, in justice to Muller,
that in remaining silent he acted under written advice sent
to him in New York, and delivered to him there the mo-
ment be was apprehended. No unfavourable conclusions
ought therefore to be draws from his silence.

The Lord Chief Baron, in his summing up to the
jury, intimated that Sunday was • den non—a 'nest
unlike!) day for the murderer, supposing him to be ano-
ther than Muller, to dispose of the watch and chain to
• third party. It is submitted that Sunday is of all
others, the very day most likely ; it is the well-kernel)
market day of the Petticoat-lane thieves and dealers.
The Lord Chief Baron likewise told the jury that it was
not required of them in findings, verdict of guilty against
Muller that they should have no doubt of his guilt, but that
they should have the same degree of certainty which they
required in their own most important affairs. Now this
direction being addressed to men of Waimea, they would
natundly take the analogy of business matters as their
standard ; yet we see every day that men embarking in the
most important commercial transactions require only a
slight preponderance of probabilities of success to justify
them in doing so, and running the greatest hazards; and
hence the vast number of ruined speculators, who never-
theless are usually men of sound judgment, and well accus-
tomed to mercantile contingencies. It is submitted, there-
fore, that such a test is calculated to mislead, and that it
was intended by Lord Tenterden, on whose authority it was
cited, rather for civil than fur criminal investigations.
No imputation is intended to be conveyed on the finding of
the jury ; who, on the imperfect facts presented to them
on Muller's behalf, could have probably arrived at no other
verdict than that which they did. Muller himself, after
condemnation, said " I should like to my something. I
am at all events satisfied with the sentence which your
lordship has passed, for I know very well it is that which
the law of the country prescribes. I have not been con-
victed on • true statement of the facts, but on a false state-
ment." This may be taken to be as strong • protestation
of innocence as a foreigner knowing little of the English
language could make ; and it was • rejoinder to the judge,
who said it was the sentence of the law, and not of the
court. But Muller was condemned by public opinion before
be was brought to England at all, in the same way as, but
in • stringer degree thaa, Dr. Smethurst was. This polle-
n= was convicted of poisoning before the Lord Chief
Baron, who expressed himself satisfied with the verdict,
and gave him no hope ; yet when, on • memorial like tlra,
he was respited, the accusation was found to be falas, and
no one ever since doubted that he was wrongfully convicted
of the crime for which he was adjudged to death. It is
confidently hoped that • similar result would follow the
respite prayed for in this ease.

The following declarations were sworn on Wed-
nesday,and appended to the memorial : . .

•• of 25, Broad-street, Lambeth, in the
count• of Surrey, bookseller, do solemnly and sin-
cerely declare, that, on the 9th day of July, 1864, I
went into the public-house called the • Red Lion,'
which is in the Walworth-road, close to Camberwell-
gate, at about twenty minutes to ten. Very shortly
after I went in, a person—a foreigner in appearaoce—
came io, and called for a glom of ale, and stayed there a
short time. I noticed that he bad a red carpet slipper on
his right foot, sod I therefore oxide way for him, taking
are not to touch his foot. He area fair, with light hair,
about middle stature. He wore dark clothes, sod I think a
lowish-crowned hat. I spoke to him, and be answered me
in a foreign accent. I should know him again. I remember
that while in the public-house there was a disturbance out-
side, but 1 did not take the trouble to learn what it was. I
know that this took place on the 9th of July, as I had come
up on that day from Barking, in Telex, on business, and 1
lost the train by which 1 intended to return, and bad to
walk nine miles. Moreover, I recollect on that day writing
a letter to the Earl of Chichester, but for certain reasons 1
did not send it. The date of this circumstance is impressed
on my mind, and I think I still have this letter, but I have
not had time to look for it ; and I make this solemn dealt.
ration, x.c. Subscribed and declared at No. 39, liesbury-
square, in the county of Middlesex, this 9th day of No-
vember, 1864. •' WILLIAM CURTIS."

" I, Jacob Waist, shopman to Mr. Whyte, of East Smith-
field, in the county of Middlesex, provision merchant, do so-
lemnly and sincerely declare that I know Franz Muller, a
prisoner now under sentence of death for the murder of Mr.
13riggs, and I say that a few days before he left London I
saw him at the booking office in the London Docks, at about
nine o'clock in the morning ; and I am sure it ass on the
Monday morning, the 11th of July aforesaid. I was riot
there on the previous Saturday ; I wsa not then) on the
following Tuesday • and I sin quite sure I also saw him on
the Wednesday, the day before, xi well as on the Monday
before the sailing of Franz Mulleis ship, that I saw him. I
know that he bought some articles of provision from Mr.
Whyte, such as soap, coffee. bacon, &c. ; and these were
Iliad, up in a parcel or parcels for biro. And I make then
solemn declaration, Lc. Subscnbed and declared at 39.
Finsbury.square, in the county of Middlesex, this 9th day
of November, Imit. '• JACOB WEST."

" I. Caroline Magarkorth, wife of Frederick Magarkortb,
of 59, Cable-street, Si, George'ain-the• East., in the county
of Middlesex, general dealer, do solemnly and sincerely
declare, that oo the 9th day of July. 1664, shortly before
11 o'clock, • man dressed in dark clothes, rather tall and
macular, thin (acid and dark whisker., rushed into the
shop and asked me to lend Lim a pound upon • handacme
gold English watch, with • white free. The man wee
excited and anxious. I did not like his looks, and felt
quite sure be had not come honestly by the watch, and
wanted to get rid of it. I refused to lend blur anything. I
think I should be able to recognise this men and the watch
again ; soil I make this solemn declaration, &c. Sub-
scribed ad declared at No. Finsbury-Nuare, in the
county of Middlesex, this :Rh day of November, 11:64.—
CAROLINE MAGARKOHTH."

" I, Lucy Elizabeth Brown, wife of James Brown, of
No. Bedford.terrace, Old Ford•road, Victoria-park, in
the county of Middlesex. oilman, do solemnly and siocerely
declare, that on the 9th day of July, 1.464. between half.
past 10 and 11 o'clock, a man, in a state of great excitement
and bony, rushed into the shop and asked for the loan of
some money on a heavy gold chain and some pendants,
stating that be had been lucked out of his lodgings by his
landlady, and be could out get money to pay the cab in
which he bad been riding. I declined, 'because I thought it
bad not been honestly come by, and I thought he only
wanted to get rid of it. I saw no cab anywhere near the
shop. And I make this solemn declaration, &e. Sultscribed
and declared at l!, Finsbury square. in the county of Mid-
dlesex, this 'Jth day of November, 1861.—" L E. 131towtv.”
" I, Alice Elizabeth Brown, of :;, Belford-terrace, Old
Ford-road, Victoria Park, in the county of Middlesex,
spinster. do solemnly and sincerely declare that between
half•peat 10 and II at night on the 9th of July, 1•64,
I was in the shop with my mother, and I saw a man, who
bad come into the shop and inquired for my mother, produce
a heavy gold chair with something banging to it. Ile asked
my mother to let him have some money on it, as be said that
be had been locked out of hie house, and could not pay his
cab fare. He was io a very anxious and excited state ; and
I make this solemn declaration, lc.—Subscribed and de-
clared at 39, Finsburcequare, in the county of Middlesex,
this 9th day of November, 1804.—A LICE ELIZABETH
Baows."

I.Hattbew Henry Itlolyneoz, of No. 8, Butler's-build-
hip. East Smithfield, in the county of Middlesex, bootmaker,
do solemnly and sincerely declare, that for upwards of seven
years last past 1 bare transacted Logjams is the London
Docks, sod know the habits of people frequenting the docks.
I know that hawkers of jewellery frequent the docks, and I
L►ve seen then: traosacting business there. I know a pedlar
of the following description :—About 3 feet =het high,

high cheek bows*, fair countenance, thin whiskers, clean
'bayed akin, about 35 Teen of age, black Melton coat and
hat. I have sot seen him there smote about the 13th of
July, and I make this solemn declaration, &c Subscribed
sod declared at No. 39. Finsbury-square, in the empty of
Middlings. this 9th day of November. 1864. MairllZW
HURT mamma."

" 1, John Haifa. of No. 16, Fark•terroce, Old Ford-road,
Victoria-park, tailor, do hereby solemnly and sincerely
declare that, on the 9th day of July, 1864, 1 saw Franz
Muller, a prisoner now condemned for the murder of Mr.
Thomas Briggs, and that the said Franz Muller did not leave
me until after a quarter before eight, and Dearer eight
o'clock on that evening ; that ober the said Franz Muller
left me he had no parcel with him, nor were any of his
pockets full enough to entain a tear of trousers or a change
of clothing ; that he left me at Mr. &pooh's, I remaining
there all night ; aniklie did not return. And I say that he
had on dark trousers, and that bad he had on light trousers
I should have noticed it. Awl I make this solemn declara-
tion, Ac. Subscribed and declared at No. 39, Finsbury-
square, is the county of Middlesex, this 9th day of Novem-
ber. 1864. —Joss Bern,'

(This declaration is made with a view of negativing the
suppositio• that Muller changed his dark trousers at Mrs.
Repsch's for his light or any other trousers, and afterwards
re-changed to his usual ones, or that he took his usual ones
home in his pocket.)
"1, Ernest Jucb, of St, Halliford-street, Islington, in
the county of Middlesex, editor of the Hermann, do
hereby solemnly and sincerely declare that I know Franz
Muller, • prisoner noder sentence of death for the murder
of Mr. Thomas Briggs, on the Might of the 'Jth day of July,
1864, and that before his condeninatioa I have bad several
interviews with the said Franz Muller, and since his con-
deraoatioo, sod 1 asy that shortly after his arrival in England,
and some time previous to his trial and condemnation, the
said Franz Muller informed me that betweeu the 13th
and 20th of May, 1864, he purchased • bat of Mr. Nausea,
a hatter in the Royal Exchange, and that on that occasion
he left the hat he had previously been wearing, which was
then very shabby and broken, at Diganoe's, sod he de-
scribed to me the shopman who sold such hat to him. Th►t
in consequence of such communication I went with Dr.
Beigel to the shop of Mr. Digance, and at once was satisfied
that the man in the shop answered the description of the
person described by the said Franz Muller, and that 1
requested the said Mr. Digauce to give me his assist-
ance in the matter; and I say that the said Mr.
Dig•nce made answer that he would not refer to
his book, 'Wile', or allow his aboptuan to give, any as-
sistance whatever in this case. And 1 further say that
the said Franz Muller further stated to me that on the
11th day of July, 1864, he purchased of • pedlar in toe
London Docks a gold watch and chain, which chain he
afterwards changed for another at the shop of Mr. Death, a
silversmith in Cheamide, and l say that in consequence of
such information I proceeded to the London Docks, in order
to find whether there was such pedlar, and ascertain
whether there was any truth in the statement of the
said Franz Muller, and that after my inquiries I was intro-
duced to two officials of the docks, who at once recognised
the man deecnbed by the said Franz Muller, and he re-
marked that this man had disappeared niece July. For some
time all my exertions to Sod this man were of no avail, but
by the assistance of one of the two dock officials
he was at last traced and found, and he admitted
that be sold w►tches and chains at the docks,
and could not deny having sold a silver watch
and gold chain about th►t time, but he appeared very
uneasy and excited by my questions, and appeared
desirous to avoid answering them. And I further s►y that
when Franz Muller was, long before his trial, questioned by
me as to his journey to Camberwell on the evening of the
9th of July aforesaid, he told me that when returning and
while waiting for the omnibus, after returning from his
walk to Camberwell New.road, he took a glass of ale at a
public-house about 200 yards from the gate, and that the
public-house was bounded by two streets, and shoeblack boys
were always there; that he left the gate after half-put nine,
and that just at that time a dog ►ttacked • boy, or created
a disturbance and crowd ; that be then mitered
• yellow-reddish omnibus, in which were four per-
sona—a gentleman in rather adv►nced years, two ladies,
and a little girl. He also described the conductor, and
be told me he arrived at the Monument in King
William-etreet about ten o'clock, got down and went to
the Bank to find an omnibus, but that finding none, he
walked home, and arrived there about half-past 11 o'clock.
I further say that I have walked from Stanley Cottage,
George-street, Camberwell, to where the omnibus starts to
the City, as described by the said Franz Muller, sod I found
that, assuming the man had on a slipper and a bout, it
would take him twenty-five minutes to walk the distance,
and that by comfortably walking in a sound state, it would
take exactly twenty minutes. And I make this solemn
declaration, Be. Subscribed and declared at No. 39, Fins-
bury-square, in the county of Middlesex, this 9th day of
November, 1864." " ERNST JrCli."

"1, William Greatorex, of 34, Hill-street, Walworth,
in the county of Surrey, tin-plate worker, du solemnly
and sincerely declare that on Saturday evening, the 9th
day of July, 1864, I went to see a friend, living at No.
11, Rose Cottage, Phelpatreet, Walworth, and I did
not leave my friend till half-pest nine ; and I remember
that when I came past the Red Lion public-house I saw
• crowd, and on asking what it was about somebody told
me that a dog had bitten a little boy. I know that it was
after half-pest nine that this occurred, because I had pro-
mised to meet my wife at nine o'clock, and hid been in-
duced by my friends to stay much longer than I intended ;
and I looked at the clock in the Rock public-bowie
opposite the Red Lion, and noticed that the half hour bad
passed some short time. And I make this solemn declara-
tion, Sc. Subscribed and declared at No. 'di, City.rood, in
the county of Middlesex, this 9th day of November, 1864.
" WiLLIA.II GIIZATOZZI."

The Rev. Mr. Battisoombe, of Blackheath, has several
times visited the prisoner, and, though previously Wills doing
so he felt convinced of Muller's guilt, he has assured the
German Committee that he has now entire belief in his
innocence, and has moreover written a letter to Sir George
Grey to that effect. The prisoner expressing a wish to have
an interview with a German clergyman, he wu visited yes-
today by Dr. Capps!, who, we are informed, has come to
the same conclusion as to his innoosnoe as the Rev. Mr.
Battiscombe feu done.

THE POLICE COURTS.
lf ANSI ON HOUSE.

The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Mr. Alderman Hale,
took his scat yesterday for the tint time as chief nogiunte
of the Ca y, and in doing so said be bad to request the gen-
tlemen officielly connected with the court to afford him
their bast aid and assistance to enable him to discharge the
important duties upon which be bad mitered. He was so
stranger to them, baying had the honour of occupying that
chair as a magistrate on many previous occasions, and he
had always found the gentlemen by whom he was sur-
rounded most willing, able, and efficient. Upon Mr. Oki,
he should have to rely principally upon points of law, and
as regarded the other gentlemen be wee confident they
would always afford him that ready and able assistance he
had• always received at their hands. In midtown, his
lordship said be should endeavour, as far as possible, to
take his seat punctually at the hour appointed, and not to
trifle with the time of the public.
The Lord Mayor was occupied for several hours in hearing
charges of pickiug pockets and assaults. In one case five
young men. named JareaKirek, Fred. Finch, Joseph Painter
Samuel Etheardi. and Thome, Connolly, were charged
with assaulting Detective-officer Legg iu the execution of
his duty ; and Connolly was also charged with rescuing a
prisoner from Legg's custody.
According to the evidence Legg had taken a man into
custody who had stolen a purse out of a lady's pocket, and
Connolly caught the officer by the collar in such a manner
that be was compelled to let his prisoner go, and be escaped
with the lady's purse. He then attempted to secure Con•
nolly, but, according to his statement, Ms other prisoners
endeavoured to get him away, and in doing so the officer got
kicked and knocked about io a severe euioner, sod was com-
pelled to obtain assistance to secure the prisoners. The pri-
soners bad all been let out on bail, and four of them bore a
very respectable appearance. Edwards, it appeared, was
employed at a warehouse m Cheapside, Connolly described
himself as • dock lel:sourer, and the other three were
employis of Maws. Copestake and Co., of Cheapside.
Connolly' denied having interfered at all with the
officer, but said he was first assaulted by the
policeofficer. The other prisoners, in explanation said that
hearing the procession was passing, they with a Dumber of
others ran out of the warebouae into the crowd, sad were
immediately seized and charged by the officer, they having
taken no part whatever in the affray.
Several witnesses from Messrs. Copestake's warehouse
stated that their friends had not taken any part in the dis-
turbance. As regarded Connolly, he described himself as
a dock labourer, but refused to give his address.
The Lord Manor said the facts had been sworn to on the
part of the police, who must be protected in their duty.
Ile sentenced Coaoolly to 14 days' imprisonment, and in-
dicted a fine of 10i. each on the other prisoners.
There was one case of pocket-picking, arising from a
crowd having been collected by some persons indulging is
the mischievous trick of throwing hot halfpence from the
windows.