The Express.
London, England, 1859-01-04 00:00:00

THE REPRIEVED CONVICT WILHELM.

The Liverpool Mercury gives the following par-
dealers respecting the respite and post history of Wilhelm,
who was recently condemned to suffer capital punishment for
cawing the death of a young woman at Manchester :
On Thursday, Mr. Walpole, the Home Secretary, would
reosive two memorials, heating the signatures of the princi-
ple of some of the leading foreign commercial firms of Man-
chester and Liverpool. Thor most important memorial was
that from Manchester, is which shoes 40 signatures were
attached. The principal points urged in favour of
Wilhelm in both memorials were the facts that he
did not design or intend to take the deceased's
and that it we. the young woman who came to him,
and not he who went to hu. These memorials were
despatched from Manchester and Liverpool on Wednesday
eve, and would be received by the Home Secretary during
Ttsay. The most sanguine hepefulneee mutt have de-
spaired if nothing had been heard yesterday morning, and it
may therefore be supposed that Wilhelm's anxiety veeged on
despair. When the fact that he was reepited was communi-
cated to him he was overwhelmed with gratitude, and fell
upon his knees, earnestly reiterating his thanks, not for
man's intercession only, but first and chiefly for the merciful
interposition of tho Supreme Being to save him from his im-
pending fate. Afterwards be was considerably revived in
spirits, and he was cheerful, compared srithwhet he bad been
for some days, when he was again visited by his wife, who
had been permitted to see him e.ery other day.
In the fact of the acquittal of Btadtmuller as an approver,
in order that he might give evidence, without which • con-
viction might have been impossible, there is sufficient to
account for • change of feeling on the part of Wilhelm
towards his area fellow-prisoner, and this must be remem-
bered in considering what Wilhelm has said since the trial.
He bas given • narrative of the circumstances of the fatal
operation at variance with the evidence and denying his
own presence in the rooms until all the injury had been
done, and particularly that he used his hand violently in the
manner described. .

Wilhelm, whole 29 years or age, is • native of the Duchy
of Bernberg, in Germany. A memorandum before ne—in
his own handwriting, which is distinct, legible, bold, and
very good for a German—lnforms us that he was born en
the sth of April, 1829, and that he was married on the 23rd
September, 1853 at the parish church of Halifax, in York-
shire. One capable of judging, and qualified to speak, con-
eiders he is not a man of at all penetrating abilities, and that
he is dull of intellect rather than shrewd or sharp. Whilst he
was very young he lost his father; and her mother was very
unkind to him. It was intended to make •
merchant of him ; then thatintention was changed, and he wee
apprenticed to en apothecary, with whom he learned his
boainees. In order to avoid military service, he came to thin
country from Hamburg, about eight years ago, and ha first
settled to Leeds, where he made a scanty livelihood by teach-
ing the German language. He next moved to Halifax, and
oommenced practice as a surgeon in Northgate. His Ant
trouble occurred In the summer of 1853, when he was COM-
mitted to the moires et York, on a charge somewhat similar
to, but not so serious as, the present, and on which he was
acquitted.
After the acquittal he returned to ;Malibu, and resumed
his surgical practice, his surgery being in Northbridge ; and
from the date already given it will be seen that in about two
months he =treed a young woman with whom he had be-
come intimate to Halifax. She was the daughter of respect-
able parents, and Wilhelm'. position and prospects were
those of • ruing surgeon. He also opened a chemist's shop,
and combined with hie practice the business of chemist and
druggist.
In • little more than a yew after hie marriage a second mis-
fortune occurred to him. Two days before Christmas-day
there happened a fire, by which hi. shop and premises were
burned down. He suooeeded, however, in rieemebliiihing
himself in busbies., but soon afterwards helms agate reduced
to ruin by the ,consequences of • disaatrous flood, which
occurred in July of the year following the fire. He straggled
but in vain, to retrieve himself front the effects of the disaster
produced by the inundation. Ili. professional statue having
perbsps been shaken by the trial at the nosier!, be found
himself unable to redeem his reputation end credit sufficiently
to conduce to meow. in beminese; and after being a second
time confined in York Castle, se a debtor, he removed
to Manchester three years ago. By economy and industry
he succeeded pretty well in Manchester, and soon com-
menced business again as a chemist. At the end of the
Bret year he found himself pretty well off, and still better
at the end of the second. Hie account of his
iatrodoo-
tion to his maistant, the approver Carl StarlUalllbig, I.
that Stadtmuller applied to him, as a fellow-countrymen
without means, for easistance. Wilhelm was not then
in actual need of an isabitant or perinea • but
as Fitadtmiiller had received • medical education end a'dearr

In Germany, it occurred to Wilhelm that it would be a stroke
of policy to secure the eervitas of Stadtmtiller, and so com-
bine, in business, the practioe of medicine and surgery with
the sale of druge. Stadtrutiller had been three days with
Wilhelm when the operation was performed which proved
fetal to the seduced young woman, who had been a patient
of Wilhelm'. for some months previously.
Milhelm's wile and child ore reduced to destitution. On
coming to Liverpool, after the trial, in order to visit her
husband on alternate days, she found a temporary home
at the house of Mr. Thomas Southern, the Black Bull Inn,
Hirkdale, whose charitable hospitality deserves commend-
ation. He will consider himself rewarded if others slao
bestow some pity on the helplepe woman, who, we may
state, denies the participation in the fatal deed imputed to
her, and declares that she did not place her hand upon the
I young woman's mouth. Her marriage with Wilhelm
caused her to be discarded by her friends, and she is now
helpless, with a line boy, aged 3i years, on her hands, and
the prospect of another child in a few weeks. However,
although disheartened enough by her present position, she
is very much relieved by the respite of her hupband, who,
she lays, has always been a good and kind husband to her,
and in that respect quite undeserving of the unrelenting con-
dant of her friend,. When we saw her yesterday, she was
busily employed with ref.oting a knitted stocking, and wore
st her bosom a lot go box eh containing a likenesa of her hue-
band, who is spoken of by those who have, had to deal with
him at the gaol la a person of gentlemanly deportment.

The Westmeath Independent states:—We have
just learned that a number of arreete have been made by the
constabulary at Shannon Brilim, of persons connected with
a Phinctia Club some time established in that locality. Aerate
have also been made at C.rreLeg, in the orime
DARING BURGLARY AT CHATIIAM.—At an early
hour on Saturday morning tart a daflag burglary was com-
mitted at the 'evidence of &Ir. J. Jones. military storekeeper,
Quit-wharf, Chatham, the barelaro being, it is conjectured,
a party of convict. recently due-barged from the convict
prison there. It la a remarkable circumotanoe that,
although there are a number of oeutries pouted in various
parts of the Gun-wharf, the burglar. contrived to obtain an
entrance into the premier, without having been perceived.
After entering the tome° by means of one of the down-stair
window., the abutters of which were red properly secured,
they proceeded at once to the storekeeper's office, at the
further end of the building, their object being. it is sup-
posed, to Bemire a large sum of money, about SOUL, together
with about 4001. worth of plate, which was believed to be
depooited in the office. The greatest violence was used by
the burglars to effect an entrance into the GIS*, two
doors leading to which were completely emashed in by
means of C/Ulabala, or Kayla other equally duster instruments.
Ones in the office, every drawer and disk were ransacked,
but a large Irma safe iietitd the uttuoot effort e of the bur-
glees to break it open. After spending some time in the
office they deratard, taking with them • email bag
of silver and a plated candlestick and from the precipitancy
in which they appear to have left, they evidently tendert
themrelves overheard. As the gates leading to the gun-
t wharf are always kept clog td at night, the burglsra must
have obtained an emaaare on the wharf by scaling the
boundary wall near Chatham-ebuteb, several of the instru-
ments used by burglars being found the neat morning in the
churchyard. One of the dowestieo in the house heard •
nice during the time the burglars were there, but being
under the impression that it ea. the drum. at the barmeks,
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