The Express.
London, England, 1859-10-10 00:00:00

MULDER IN NEW FORK.

The Am York Journal Commerce of Sept. 28
say. ;—" Last evening • moat angular ewe aims to limn it
the sixth ward, the dead body of • wan, evidently =mimed,
being tend in • house corner of Little Wider and W.
sumo. The scans of the tagedy need to be the report of
madams and tßlever, sad yearned°, when the Five Points
I were mach worse than at present, Clown's Comer," ait
was known, was decidedly the worst locality in the neigh.
' bourhood. The building, which is a three-story one, is tow
occupied by trostitutee, organ-grindsar, sad thieve., sad
maintains domed its old reputatkat. On the amend dear, 4
man named John H. Beojamin, who sails hot cakes around
the Park for • living, occupies • room, with a mistress tamed
Jaw Bradford. Last enaing,when he went home, he ward
the door of his room bolted on the inside. All dement!. f.: ad-
miraion brought no answer, and supposing that all was not
right, he went downstairs to get sasietance in solving the
difficulty. As he passed out of the hall, he happened look
up towards the window of his room,which is on Little Wets,
street, and saw a man in tha act of jumping oat of the
win-
dow. The fellow, observing Benjamin, immediately jumped
back into the room. Benjamin went into a liquor store kept
by a Kra Gordon, in the lower wt of the building and
seausid thanneistancs of an solueatance, and then went tip.
stain. The door of his room was now open, and as entered
The room was dark, and everything was quiet ; en, striking a
light, an investigation was uuniediettly side. Jane
Bradford, the mietteee, was there, nod apparently
acme ; hat upon looking at the bed, the body of
• mat, coveted with blood, was discovered. Be bad
evidently been choked to death, as wark upon his
throat indicated, and the blood was still running from his
nose. Officers Donaghty and if iggins ware notified end
conveyed the body to the sallow house insFrankliu-street and
them arrested Benjamin, Kies Bradford, Jane ll'Cabe, and
Joespitme Smith, the two latter being supposed to have
sans knowledge of the affair. They were all locked up. On
the body of the deceased there Ina found nothing by which
he =old be identified. In the bed and beside him, however,
acre was sans naturalisation papers, which may have
Weaned to him. The name of James Magas was upon
therm It is rather a ringular circumstance that these papers
should have been found where they were. The girls all profess to
have ao knowledge of the affair. Use. Bradford sates that
it man in • ad shirt, whom she does not know, neat bar in
the liquor store downstairs in the evening, and insisted on
going with her. She emphatically dawn that he was re-
pelled by her, but several vim...wean positive that the aim
who was shoat to jeep from the window (and who afterwards
did so) had on a red shirt. It may bs that ha to this perpe-
trator of this deed. Still, another of the gide declares tag
hue Bradford told her that Benjamin kbled the man, bat
that party informed our teportar that the demised came into
her room early In the afternoon, remained then till evening,
and then lay upon the bed, having quarrelled with no one
whatever. dbe upraises much astonishment at having of
the man's death. The whole are le now abraded in coma
plate mystery, and only an invalidation can bring everything
connected with into light."