The Express.
London, England, 1857-06-27 00:00:00

TEE AMMER OF Mk LITTLE.

The Dublin Freeman's Journal of yesterday has
ionic further particulars about the prisoner Spollen. In •
chest of drawers in his cottage eight sovereigns were found
rolled up in • piece of wadding, which bad the appearance of
having lain in • muddy place, as portions of clay wee ad-
hering to it. The polite Are of opinion that this money was
taken from the place where the geld and note. were felted.
Thermos. with which Mr. Little 's throat is supposed to have
been cut, and found by the police in the camel, wan
Aeon to Mts. Spouts to try whether she could identify it es
belencieg to her husband. She could not recognise it ea
hie, bat remarked that some time before the murder her hes-
dead had been made a present of • razor by a friend of his.
The police are swan of the name of this person who, no
doubt, will be able to say whether the Inner la
tact one he gave to Sjellen. Mrs. Spollen says
that " her husband on owning home at eight o'clock
on the evening of the murder, remembered that he had for-
gotten his rime-book in the office of Mr. Little, and, fearing
that might be discovered, he went back to the room and
head it there, and brought it home." The little girl (Julia
'pollen) identifies the piece of cotton cloth in which the
mosey tound between the boundary walls of the railway and
the workhouse wee wrapped up as hers. This piece of cloth
eke got from Ler aunt some nose mince to make a bonnet.
The son of the prisoner, who is in charge of the police at
Ohnimeg-lane elation-house, is • well-looking lad, about 16
age. He bore hie otnlineuient very well up to
= slay evening, wren he became quite overpowered with
grief et the position in which his lather was placed, and
celled Reputedly fur his =Alter. He is at present detained
by the urn as a sitasse.
The mesh at the Ilroadelone terminus was to be resumed
ysetulay end the further exploration of the river proceeded
with, es the ipesseesksa of the miming key of the dour of the
ceehos6les in needed es of the .rat importance.
Spasm our ortglestly employed by the company as a
porter, but being en intelligent, quick, ingenious person, he
Aron acquired some skill ea a painter, and was latterly engaged
in painting, easing, and doing odd Cole about the terminus ;
in tact, he was regarded am a very useful, "handy man."
lie is described ea a very industrious, hardworking
rather quiet in manner, steady in conduct, and of good
address. He appears, too, to be a man of some
taste ; the walls of his neatly-furniahed comfortable
cottage ere profusely adorned with pictures in gilt
frames, and the smell piece of ground in front of
it is laid out in pretty flower-beds, with one or two
little plot. tapes', now in blossom, interspersed. Scarlet
runner, are eke trained in front of the cottage, and the
garden I. further adorned by an ingeniously constructed
" rockery," 114 it is termed-a number of Lags atones, moss,
flower., and the roots of trees, arranged together in • very
tasteful manner. Hanging outside the door wits a handsome
braes wire cage containing a pretty cailyer
of , which was a great
pet of the prisoner's. Me used to many his lebure
moments in training it. He also • small rabbit in a
neat wooden cage, a portion of which is circular and rota-
tory like those in which whit* mien and guinea pigs are Gene-
rally confined. The totter, lie. almost exactly oppovite to
the room in which the murder was committed, and within a
atom's throw both of the terminus and of the place when
the murderer concealed his booty. Thus the first object
which would meet the eye, of Spollen and his wits on going
out of their cottage was the window of Mr. Little's room,
tie recollection at the terrible tragedy enacted therein being
constantly kept before the mind of the woman.
The prisoner never evinced any disinclination to enter into
conversation on the subject of the murder. He fre-
quently discussed the matter with persons in the employ-
ment of the company, ale ays expreseed his horror of the
crime, and was noticed for constantly observing, " What •
nerve the fellow must have had that did it." A few day.
ego ho sou iu company with some of the workmen, when,
the murder having been referred to, one of the men re-
marked, " 1 wonder whether the murderer wee amongst
the batch lately discharged by the company." "No," re-
plied Spence, " I am certain the fellow is still amongst us,
and laughing at us." The prisoner had charge, amongst
other matters relating to the building, of the cleaning of the
windows, on which account his passing through rooms and
corridors would not attract particular notice.