The Express.
London, England, 1861-06-20 00:00:00

TEE KINGEWOOD MURDER.

The inquest on the body of the deceased, Martha
Halliday, was resumed and concluded yeetenlay before Mr.
W. Carter, coroner for East Stu my, at the lied Lam Inn,
!Garwood. A good deal of additional evidence was taken,
though ao facts were deposed to that have act appears
from day to day in our columns. The learned coroner, in
summing up, said if the jury were of opinion that the death
of the person had been awed by violence, and that that
violence had been occasioned by persons who had felonicauly
entered the premises, they must return a verdict of wilful
murder ' • sad although certain names had been put before
them, it would be for another tribunal to see whether those
persons were guilty when they. were apprehended. The
court was then cleared, and the jury, alter • short delibera-
tion, expressed an opinion that the premises bad been bur-
glanoudy entered, and returned a verdict of " Wilful mur-
dee' against some person or persons unknown. The proceed-
ings were then brought to • ooncludoa.
Considerable interest was manifested at Reigate yesterday
by the receipt of information that two foreigners, confidently
believed by the police to be the murderers, bad been appre.
herded walking together a abort distance from Chichester, in
Sussex, and were to be brought there by the first trainyeeter-
day afternoon! for examination before the local magistrates
in whose juriadiction the murder bad been perpetrated.
Actoordingly about one o'clock Mr. Superintendent Pratt,
of the Sussex Constabulary, arrived with his prisoners, who
were at once conveyed to the Reigate Police-station. They
gave the names of Jacob Zimmerman and Henri Myrt-
le's, and admittted they were Germans, one eyyinmgg he
was a native of Hesse, and the other (as we )
of Prankforteon-the-Maine. In most particulars their height
and general appearance bore a striking resemblienee to the
descriptions circulated by the police authorities of the two
men supposed to have commided the murder, while the
younger of them closely answered the description given by
Mdlle. Tietjens of the person who called upon her at her
residence, Groveand, St. John's Wood. One, too, was
rather shorter than the other; while to give greater support
to the probability that they were the parties sought after,
it was a singular coincidence that, like the other parties, only
one of them could speak English. They likewise pat
striped shirts, and three differently-coloured cloth
cape—all with peaks—were found upon them. The
elder of the two described himself as a sugar baker oat
of employ, and recently residing in Whitechapel ; and
the yoenger laid he wee a waiter, but added that he
had been travelling through the country vending dried
rhuberd, a mmatity of which was discovered in a box one
of them was carrying at the time they were apprehended.
They had very little valuable property about them, sad
one was without his passport, which was said to have bees
stolen from him by another German he met at Winchester,
and who told them he bad left Germany because he had
murdered a man them. They answered all questions put
to them with the greatest readiness, sad did not seem at
all alarmed. They denied all knowledge of the
murder of Mrs. Halliday, and stated that on the
day it was perpetrated they were at Ryde,
Isle of Wight. They bad afterwards, they asserted.
visited Portsmouth, Southampton, Winchester, and ether
places, and were leaving Chichester when they were taken
into custody. They mentioned where they had lodged in
the above towns.

Several persona who had seen the two Germans while
they remained in Reigate prior to the murder IMO sent
for to identify the persona in custody. Amongst them were
the ostler and a female servant from the Cricketer,, where
they slept on the night preceding the murder, and also •
=D from the shop where the cord found round the mar-
woman's hands and feet wee purchased. They how-
ever failed to identify them, and the prisoners asserted
that they had never been in Reigate before in their liras,
am in feet did not know thiirpart of the country at all, and
is cemehdon mentioned the name of some persons they
mid bow the in London. The were, how-
ever put back for the pincer bring takes bdcre •
magistrate.

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