The Express.
London, England, 1859-05-31 00:00:00

2711 SUPPOSED MURDER 47 RAMSGATE.

RAMSGATF., MAT 30.

Some additiocal particulars have just I;s:eisbrought
to light In reference to this mysterious cam which may
assist the public in coming to a eowlesion upon the limilea
of murder or suicide. The 'dainty of the deceased lees Nen
eatisfactotily secertalued. It appears that Burin; the ier
•govq before the coroner the mike bed succeeded nt tasting
the deceased up to the pint of his landing at Southampton,
oaths Meg el Match, sea passenger by the Bremen, has
New Yorlf. On the termination of the inquest, Sep rin.
budget Livia, of the Itseasprate police, wrote toi the police
authorities of New York, oonveyum to them all the known
particulars of the cam, and requesting them to awertain, V
nateible. the identity of tics decreed, and. the cereumstmaces

;side? which ha left'Anierioni. On 13:iturdat a reply wee re-
ceived to the following effect
The deceased was s German, named Fgedeetek, or Friedrich
Matters, and was known la New Emit, wsrs lie has two
brothers living. Their nem:ears faoshmad Hang Matters,
and they are not is very good COCRIZOINIPIS. The deceased,
Frederick Matteis, arrived in New Yoek from Games,'
about two years age, and while titers he worked m •
butcher. One day, about 14 mouths ago, he was occupied
In cutting moat for rouges by • machine. whoa by some
accident hi. lilt hand be; ante entanekd in the machine, and
the joints of the fore and second fingarewsee cut off. This
was the mutilation which the cheand appeared wai.sus to
conceal luring his stay in England. On the 16th Marsh
last the deceas.d purchased a thket, at New York, to go by
the steamship Bremen to Southampton, sad ha sailed in her
on the 19th of the earn, month. Prior to his depletive Os
mate it generally known that ho intended to return to Ger-
many. Its is supposed to have bad in his posse ion,
on leaving America, from 160 to 2.50 d Bare. His father and
mother, Jacob and Catherine Menem, are alive, and reside
at " Wolheein Mutate's, Bayer, Germany." He is de-
scribed as a lemon of reserved mamma, but not bypocluew
&Meal, nor subject to aberrwion of mind.
From the above facts it would appear list the paper found
near the deceased, sinned—as deciphered at the inquest.—
..Heinrich blatterigh," and announcing the transmission of
No dollars to the mother of the writer, was written, not by
the deceased himself, but by his brother. It may he renter ked
that at the time the body we. lying in the Pier Soirchouse,
oce of the spectivore who visited it inquired whether either
of the persons in whore company the demand had been seen
on the day preceding the minder am a butcher. The Inquiry
(as our reporter uudenrood) was founded on the cirmuu.tanca
of the wrist having been divided at the juitt, and also of there
bring but ors stab In the body heeding direct to the heart.
It was weeded, however, that in a use of murder the
,resole, oven if sequalattd with anatomy, can rarely take
his sine with such calmness and certainty that nns stab to
suillefeet to effect his object. The supposition that this was
a ease of salt athqlation and suicide is undoubtedly streark-
ened by the cirtunist mcs of the decea.ed having bees a
butcher. No intorruatinn has led been °Weisel to show a
motive for Weide, but it i. considered not impreh,ble that
the deorawd lost • largo priporti in of hi. mousy either by
ganibbng or In soma whir way after his arrival in London,
and that he res ilved to destroy himself. end, at the mime
time. to remove the mutilated band, which would mere for
hie ideatilleation.