The Express.
London, England, 1857-08-11 00:00:00

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THE MURDER OF MR. LITTLE.

SEOLLEN'S TRIAL (YESTERDAY.)
DUBLIN, MONDAY EVENING.
The Court resumed its sittings M ten o'clock this
morning.
The use for the crown, which was understood to bars
closed on Saturday evening, was re-opened this morning,
for the production of the following evidence
Mr. Hughes examined by Mr. Brewster.—The poker,
scissors, penknife, sad towel (marked with blood) exhibited,
were seen by me in Mr. Little's room on the day it win
opened.
Mr. Hauliers, re ruunined—Had not beard that the plate
form door waa found open on the morning after the murder'
Catherine Campbell was three months in the custody of the
police; there were serious suspicions egainot other persons •
than Spollen ; • person could close the platform gate aftee
going out, by catthing hold of the panelling.
James Meares re-examined—Saw Spoilers on the day ha
was arrested; saw his moleskin waistcoat and trousers then;
they were taken away by witness; Dr. Geoghegan had them
now.
At a queen before eleven, Mr. Curran rose to speak for
the defence, sad addressed the jury for four hours. The case
for the prosecution, he said, depended entirely upon the
evidence of the prisoner's children ; and he maintained that
they were unworthy of belief. He looked upon the eels
deuce of the boy, and the same applied to the mie
dence of the little girl, as unworthy of belief from
the mere fact that they had alleged an absence of convergee
tion with one another, and a total negation of a feeling of
curiosity, which was beyond belief, as it was net
natural. He (the learned counsel) impeached this evie
demo for the prosecution as the result of the basest of cone
opiraciee, between the wife of the prisoner and those chile
dren—between the wife of his bosom. and the children, hie
offspring—and did not the very probability of this unfit then
for belief in a court of justice ? [At the allusion to his writ
the prisoner evinced considerable emotion, lowered his heed
on to his hands, and Lie face became suffused with a reddish
glow,whilot large beads of perspiration hung on his forehead.
Ile, however, speedily recovered hie composure] Again,
he would aele„ had any connection been establised Wilma
the prisoner and the money that YOU found? Wee there me
human eye, save those of the two unfortunate children, mg
him on the evening of the murder, going to or cooling, feet
the terminus? Vi as be met by any one—any of his fellow.
workmen? Not one. Ilad not every one about the
miss ages access to where the money was found ? Could set
any one who might have stolen a rag from the souse,
place the money where the police discovered it? And if
this were so, what evidence was there spied the milord
The finding of the lock bad been looked upon by the Ansi.
nay-General as of paramount importance in tho ease; td
warn It eo P Manufectured in hundreds of thousands, dike
tame pattern, a lock of this demriptionwes incapable otter*
proved.. The Attorney-General stated that there would be
some reason given them to believe that it woe Spollas
hammer which had been found. Had he fulfilled tket
undertaking? He *eked then, what raisin ibis
wee to elapse& it wee Spollen's hemmer—that it me
ever seen in Ma pmeregiont It was a remarkable banish
and had been greatly used. If Spoil= had used it, it war
have been known to have been his. If they believed theta,"
the hammer did not belong to Spends, for he could gives
evidence respecting it, and yet be was perfectly in a posits*
identify the two hammers found in the cottage. Supple It
a moment that Spollen had committed the murder, and the
the hammer which fitted the wounds was the instrument
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death, would he not have said to himself that he would set
take his own racer with him? He would have taken a etisr.
num also. He was in the habit of marking his bermes to
as to recognise them. Another matter on which the con
relied, wee the periodical stoppage of the ram prim Oh
but not since, the prisoner's arrest. But was it net thee
that whoever hid the money there .would not go On
when he found that the money was diaoovcred. Then, to
the finding of the second razor, could it not be that the rest
wan thrown into the canal to eke out a case P Who gave tin
pollee information of its whereabouts? The adage
" Those who hide can find ;" and did that hold godtin
present case? The evidence was entirely eirrumstenti es
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in that case they ought to shrink from adding another tea'
stance to the marl already existing of the danger Omit*
conviction upon circumstantial evidence.
The evidence for the defence wan not important. TM
engineer of the railway company, Mr. C vrbery, •
several questions on the pert of the defence. The chief dm
of the police office was a.W examined, relative to the War
oration of Joseph and Lucy Splint James Spoils
prienner's eldest eon) was not ewuined fur the defame
Mr. W. T. Kirwan, solicitor of the Railway Conlin
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gave the prisoner a character fur quietness, sobriety,
general good conduct.
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and delivered a epee* lasting from four till eeveaßce.;•::
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