The Express.
London, England, 1857-08-12 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST It

THE trial of 'AMEX Broums for the minder of
111 r. Urns has terminated in a verdict of acquittal.
The @eldest., no doubt, was almost entirely cir-
cumstaatial ; but the links of the long chain of
proof were so closely interwoven—the away of
fame proved was in its cumulative Sores so
apparently incompatible with any other theory
than that of the prisoner's guilt—that were, it mast
be confessed, somewhat at a leas to conjecture on
what ground thejury were enabled sonsaimatiessly to
arrive at the cambial= that @nth pelf wee not math-
factorily brought hems to him. Mat their verdict
was fully justified by ciresaideMeel sot apparent on
the face of the evidence se reported we are not ma-
mma to dispute; he that a steam; ease of pre.
sampdm pill was merle eat &plait the primmer, the
Mowing rapid outline of the principal bob esta-
blished on the trial will, we think, reader abundantly
clear.

Inns, it will be remesibmed, was found
murdered labia Mlles ea the merniag of the 14th of
November lest. He had hese lest sem alive in that
ease at Ave o'clock on the evening of the 13th; at
belt-past ram on the eases evening the wawa in
charge of the promises bad seen la light wader the
Mies doer, tweed the handle of the door, tried to
eater, and got no sewer. The murder, then, it
may safely be conjectured, wee perpetrated between
these two points of time—between Ave sad half -pest
seven as the evening of the 13th. It soon became
apparent that a considerable quantity of cash had
been abstracted by the murderer : further inquiry
disclosed its exact amount. An examination of the
body showed that the crime had been effected by
two descriptions of weapons : the bead had been
crushed by a blunt, the threat severed by an exceed-
icily sharp, inetromeat A hammer and • rem
would have effected jest each wounds. The mod
active investigations, as oar readers will remember,
were instantly set on foot: every inquiry was bailed.
The railway premises were ransacked in every
direction ; the canal was searched. A hammer and
• maw wars discovered in the latter, but neither
bore any trees et ownership. A month elapsed,
when, on the 12th of December, stowed away
sowing the ratters of the painting-abed, a
hamper was found containing a quantity of silver,
which was at once, and not unfairly, inferred to
have foamed a portion of the proceeds of the rob-
bery. Bet this discovery led to no further results.
The winter sad the spring peeled away without any
births: clue of any kind being obtained, and the
secret of the great crime seemed likely to remain an

impenetrable mystery.
Things were in this state when, in the course of
this summer, the wife of lams BPoLLEN, a jobbing
painter in the employ of the Railway Company, and
osoupying a cottage within a stone's throw of the
seem of the murder, made a statement to the police,
denouncing her husband as the murderer. A similar
denunciation having been before made with rehemice
to another party, which on examination proved to be
utterly groundless ; and the evidence of the wife
being, according to the fixed rule of English June-
prodenoe, entirely inadmissible against the husband,
the mere accusation, unsupported by tangible proofs,
would have amounted to very little. It was not,
however, unsupported. The woman declared that the
raids° of the plunder was Mill concealed in two dif-
ferent hiding places on the railway peemises. A
search was immediately instituted, and a discovery
mode, in the precis 'pots thus indicated, of two
carefully hidden portions of coin. Still, as the wife's
testimony could not be used against the husband,
it was asormery, for the purposes of a legal convic-
tion, to *wet the cola this secreted with
Remain by other and independent evidence. The
mode in which it was sttempted to "apply this link
of wane:ion is one of the most singular pelts of the
ease. One parcel of the cola was wrapped up la apiece
of calk*, which, on Wag produced, was identified
by two children of the prisoner es having been
originally sued sea "ern-bonnet" of the daughter,
and afterwards employed about the hoses as a
duster. The daughter, ea intelligent child of eleven,
stated before the magistrate that she had sees this
shortly before, bat never after, the murder.
In her evidence on the trial she varied this state-
ment, and mid she bad last seen it wake three
swaths before that date. With regard to dmisoney
bead is this pins of calico, distinct 1101111110 was
given that it formed pert of the was talertikesellr.
Limes *See at the time tithe saarder.lleedgemb
packages in which it was made up maser NOW
speeded with entries foaad is the sturdedd sea's
bates ; sae or two of them were actually iliadliall
by clerks dos( the line as having been the very per.
Ws that they bed tremaittsel to the head else as
the day ef 611 Ilia& The eiresitsaces by AM
the ether pardon tithe secreted aims was emesisi
with the primmer are still mere extreesdidep. •
boast lialtiDei with red lead had bud teemed
into a privy is ea abeam come of die Psalm
sheds; ea the top el this bucket was brad a ram of
67L 104. ia silver. la the red lead at the bottom of
the bucket was basil a small padlock, used for frees.
lug oil-saes. fireman bail two seek ease, sad he
was wore to have alas had two seek padlocks ep to
the time of the meths,; Ow it he hod .4, else.
This ono, after his west. was hand in a drawer in
his cottage, together with a key: the key fitted
exactly the pad s& band is the red•lied bushel-
There was smother serious eiretwastaase eemested
with this pert of the ease : the red-lead beast had