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LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8.
SATTLEN has bus very properly foe
guilty of the wilful murder of TRAIN, the detecti
officer. There are some peculiarities in the case, •
it is one in which it might have been satisfactory
learn more of the antecedents of the murderer th
is disclosed by the forms of our English criznii
procedure. According to the Continental syete
all the ascertainable facts of the man's previous
tory would have been hunted out, and the ree
stated in the act of accusation. The dry accuracy
our indictment merely specifies in the briefest tar
the precis, technical nature of the alleged offien
and the evidence is confined with the same rigor(
strictness to the mere proof of the facts nevem
to establish guilt. fiarrteit is by birth a Bel
rian ; but u he could speak English fluently, it
fair to presume that he had for some time been a
sident in this country. When we add that he is i
scribed in the calendar as a surveyor, we have to
all that was disclosed at the triil with regard to 1
previous history. Some time in the course of IA
summer the man wall convicted of the somewhat si
viler offence of " stealing a quantity of bob
" linen," and was committed for three months
Wiabeach gaol. Just before his discharge from th
prison he asked the warder what he was to do why
he got his liberty, complaining that if he asked f
employment the English would not give it him. 'll
warder told him that he would not be allowed
starve in • Christian country, and that if he con
not get an honest livelihood he must ask for relic
The prisoner's reply was that " it was not a Christie
" country, and that he would not ask for relief; th
" he would steal if he could not get employmez
" and if anyone endeavoured to apprehend or pi
" vent him he would shoot him like a dog."
On the 28th of October last the man was d
charged ; five days afterwards, on the 2nd of Novet
ber, a carpet bag, belonging to Mr. BALLANTIN
a stockbroker, was stolen from the commerci
rr room of the Golden Lion, at St. Ives. The be
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besides wearing apparel and trinkets, contained
I considerable sum in 201. bank notes. At Cu
II bridge, the next morning, the prisoner pawned pi
of the wearing apparel, bought • watch with one
the stolen 201. notes, changed others, and at tl
first opportunity took his passage from Harwich
Hamburg. When this was discovered, TRAIN,
detective officer, was sent to Hamburg, in pursuit
the fugitive. The authorities at Hamburg cans
BATTLER to be apprehended, and 011 the 20th
November he was brought on board the Caledonia
and banded over to the charge of TRAIN I
conveyance to England. He was placed in
separate cabin, and was handcuffed by TRA
for greater security. The passengers remarked th
on the passage the officer showed great kindness
his prisoner—frequently asking Yam if he woo
take anything. When first brought on board t
man complained that the handcuffs hart hi
Tie tt,i's reply was, " I hare been learned of you
" but I will take them off when we get to Englae
"if you behave yourself" Between four and 1
o'clock in the afternoon of the 22nd, the passim,
were startled by • report of firearms flu
the prisoner's cabin, which TRAIN h
shortly before entered. The door was biz
open : the first who entered found the cat
full of smoke. Sarrxxx was sitting on a chest
freshly discharged pistol was lying beside him, a
the officer, with his hand on his breast, exclaim!
"The prisoner has shot me." The man was seim
roughly handled, and asked why he had done au
a thing. Without affecting to deny his crime,
said that TRAIN had broken faith with him ; th
when he was in Hamburg he had promised not
iron him ; but had afterwards, contrary to his pr
mist., handcuffed him ; that he would shoot any en!
like • dog who broke faith with him.
answer to further questions he stated that I
had got the pistol out of the chest by wrest
ing off its lid with a lamp iron which I
had torn down from the cabin during THAD
absence, and hail then managed to load it
best he could, taking care only to put in plenty
powder and ball. TRAIN'd wound was mortal. I
lingered for a short time in the hospital, sad, aft
his death, three balls were extracted from Dished
Before he expired he made a statement substantial
agreeing with the prisoner's first confession. The ma
he said, deliberately shot him on his return to the tab
after a short absence, as he was putting his cape
his berth. S mint afterwards retracted the stat
meet which he had made in the first instance, d
Oared that he had loaded the pistol with a view
his own self-destruction, but that the officer comm
upon him suddenly, before he had time to conceal i
he had fired at him instead. This second etateme
was contradicted, not only by all the probabilities
the case, but by many expressions of murderous m
lignity that at different times fell from the prison
with reference to the fate of his victim. Wile
I slur his arrival in England, he was taken to a oe
and handcuffed by another officer, he fell into a pa
sion, and swore he would shoot him as he had tl
other, declaring that " it was owing to the handeul
" that he had shot THUM."
Such were the principal facts proved against tl
prisoner. At the trial two points were made on h
behalf—one, that the act of shooting Tatty we
not intentional, but accidental ; seconuly, the
even if intentional it was justifiable, supposing tD