The Express.
London, England, 1865-03-06 00:00:00

MURDER OF AN A iura us ii MERCHANT HE-
PHRSI. •
•

Sir F. Crossley, Bart. M.P., has received the 1
followleg letter relative to the muffler in Persia of a Had- 11
dersield menlant :—" Foreip-office, Feb. 10, UM— i
filr,-1 am directed by Earl Rummell to soknowle the
receipt of your letter of the Bth instant, inclosing
from Mr. Edward Lsngfield upon the subject ol the
cumstanoss under which his brother, Mr. Ifellaren Law t
field, had bees murdered by some Persian eddies,neer
Shabrood. In July last, aad I am to inform you in reply,
that her Majesty's
.government bas already received from
her Majesty's minister at Teheran the particulars of this
melancholy occurrence, from which it appears that Mr.
Benjamin Langfield, accompanied by his brother Abraham,
passed through Teheran in February last on their way to
Shahrood, with a view of speculating in cotton, and that ;
they were duly warned by her Majesty's Secretary of !
Legation of the extreme rink they incurred by travelling
is Persia, without proper escort, with large sums of money
is their possession. It appears that on the 22nd of Jrly,
as Mr. Lauf eld and his servant were proceeding from ;
the port of Guy to Shahrood, on entering the district of
Boston, they were attacked by some cavalry belonging to I
the Persian army, who, after having shot both muter and
men, robbed the dead body of Mr. Lasgfield of all the
money he had is his possession, and decamped. Their
bodies were subsequently recovered by a Christian reel-
dent of Shahrood, who had them removed to that place
and buried there : their clothes and other articles found on
them were placed in a room, where they are now locked
up. Mr. Alison at once 'took measures to endeavour to trope
the murderers and recover the stolen property, and with
this view obtained the necessary order from the Shah to the
Governor of Shahrood and to the Persian commander-in.
chief for the discovery and arrest of the criminal. It
does not appear, however, that those measures have as yet
been attended with ewers, but instructions will be sent to
Mr. Alison to make further inquiry into the matter, and
strong representations to the Persian Government. Mr.
Alison speaks in high tams of the assistance rendered.by
the Russian minister at Teheran, and by the Russian consul
at Asterabsd in the steps taken for the apprehension of the
murderers.—l am, sir, your most obedient humble servant,
" E. lisrisorin.
"To Sir Francis Crossley, Bart., M.P."

CONDUCT OP THS POLICE IN THE SAFFRON-
HILL STABBING CARE.

Mr. Negretti writes of the conduct of the police
la the above case :
" The police were told on the evening of the fatal occur-
rence, by Mr. Warms, a mistime! Harrington, that they bad
gM hold of the wrong man. Mr. Worms told them that Serafino
did not do it, but that Gregorio did. Mr. Worms also told
them that he had known Pell:soul for year!, and that ha was
incapable of such a crime. The answer given by the police
I will not give you, for I can hardly believe it myself.
The police had Gregorio's knife delivered up to them on
the morning after the occurrence, and all the circum-
steams connected with it lucidly explained to them, from
the giving up of the knife by Gregorio to a friend—the
friend throwiag it away in Bordeesa's back yard—to that
of the potboy of Borden,' picking it up and handing it over
to the polio,. The polio, were told that °refrain had slapped
the landlord (Mr. Shaw) in the face, wluch circumstance,
Mr. Shaw stated at Gregorio's first examination, originated
all the mischief that followed. The police were told that
Harrington and Gregorio had a scuffle in the tap-room not
ten minutes before the stabbing took place. Mrs. Shaw
stated at Gregorio's examination that this scuffle
arose from the fact that Gregorio had slapped her
husband's face, and that the polies know all about
it. The police knew that Oregano end his brother John
(the latter bleeding at the neck) came beck after the fight
and asked for their hats out of the hatmgeik ream, Lod that
those hate were given to them by Xi% Shaw, who fetched
them from the bagatelle-room, clearly showing that Gre-
Norio and his brother John had been in that room, and not
Pelimont only, as sworn by all the witnesses on the trial.
Lastly, the police never seriously attempted to find Gre-
gorio, for they knew that the fioding of this man would
result (as it did) in the exculpation of Pelizzoai, and the
acquittal of Peliumii, after having charged him with
murder, would not have been very creditable to the police.
I might also observe that the above is also the reason why
I preferred finding Gregorio myself, in preference to em-
ploying the police is the matter."