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THE SUN, LONDON", MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1864.

THE MURDER OF MR, BRIGGS.

Examination of Muller at Bow Street this
Day.
The usual crowd assembled in Bow-street this morning
to witness the arrival of Muller at the police-court. On the
arrival of the prisoner's van at about half-past 10 the rush
towards it was terrific, and on Muller making his appear-
ance, instead of the hissing and hooting he received cn
Monday week, he was to-day received with loud cries of
" Hurrah, hurrah 1"
Muller was placed in the dock at a few minutes past 11
before Mr Flower, the sitting magistrate, bvt it was found
that most of the witnesses had not arrived from attending
the inquest at hackney.
Mrs Repsch, however, was in attendance, and she was
accordingly reexamined by MrG.ffard. She said, I recellect
having a conversation with the prisoner about his wearing
a new hat. He told me he had smashed his old one and
thrown it into the dusthole, and that he had had the one
then on (the one supposed to belong to the late Mr Briggs)
two months. My husband asked him what he paid for it,
and he replied 14s. 6d. My husband said "Why that looks
more like a guinea hat." That is all I recollect about the
hat. I remember about the end of last year his bringing
a hat-box to our house. I cannot recollect whether it was
in November or December. He said Mr Mathews had made
him a present of the hat. He showed us the hat. The one
produced (the hat found in the railway cairiags), I believe
to be it. It had a stripped lining of white brown and blue
with a small black and white edge. I gave a description of
the hat to the police before it was shown to me.
Mr Flower—You bad seen it often, I presume?
Witness—Yes, sir.
Mr Giffard—The prisoner used to put his letters into his
hat ?
Wimess—Yes ; he used to place them underneath the
lining.
you ever seen him
Wit ness—Yes.
doMthraßt
?eard (prisoner's attorney)—Have
The witness, in continuation, said, when the prisoner
showed him the chain, he said ho purchased it when he was
going to take his passage ticket. He said he had but halt
a crown left after paying for the chain and ring. I saw the
prisoner on the 9th of July. To the best of my knowledge
tie had then a pair of dark trousers on—a green and black
mixture. He had bad them but a very ehort time. His
coat was merely a plain morning coat. There was nothing
peculiar about the collar of it. I think it was of cloth,
but I don't distinctly remember. I have seen him wear
other coats beside that cne. I recollect one with a velvet

Mr Board—When did this conversation take place about
the hat ?
Witness—On the Monday morning when ho showed me
the chain. I will not swear the prisoner wore the dark
trousers en the Monday or the Tuesday prior to the 9th of
July. I first heard of the railway outrage in the weak fol-
lowing—about Tuesday, to the best of my recollection. I
also heard there was a large reward offered for the discovery
of the murderer. I never said anything
to the police about
the murder until two gentlemen came to me. When the
prisoner went away, he had nearly a new pair of boots. I
know he has had a coat, but I did not see it.
Mr Giffard—How do you know he had a new coat?
Witness—l have heard the prisoner say so.
Godfrey Ferdinand Repsch said—l saw the prisoner at
my house on Saturday the 9th of July. He then wore a
morning coat and dark trousers—brown and grey, any
colour, every colour. (Laughter.)
Mr Beard—Let that be taken down-
Witness—l cannot say positively; there was brown in
the colour I know. I recollect the prisoner coming to my
house or' the following Monday He then wore a new hat.
I said `.You've got a new hat.": My missis also said to him
"You at e very
extravagant to have a now hat on." Prisoner
said he had had the hat a couple of months. I told him it
was a very good hat. I asked him what it cost, and he told
me 14s 6d, end said it was a good hat and worth a guinea.
He then wore a single-breasted coat and light trousers. He
remained at my house that day till about 1 o'clock, but I
saw him every day after until he sailed for America.
Mr Giffard—Did you ever see the prisoner in the dark
trousers after the Saturday you speak of
Mr Beard—l object to your using the word " dark "
trousers, the witness says they were all colours.
Mr Gaffard—l don't wish to call them dark trousers if
you object. Did you ever see the prisoner in the trousers
he were on the 9th of July after that day
Witness--No.
Cross-examination continued—l know he had some new
clothes about two months before the conversation took place
about the hat. I can't say I ever saw him again in the
trousers ho wore on the Saturday. When I had the conver-
sation with prisoner about the hat I never turned up the
lining to see whether there was a name in it.
Mr Giffard—What trousers had the prisoner on when you
saw him on the Monday?
Witness—Light ones. They are not the same he had on
cannot tell you
on the Saturday.
What trousers had he on on the Tuesday?
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Witness—l have said as near as I can.
Mr Beard—You must recollect. more. precise than that a
circumstance took place which you will not forget for the
Mr Beard—Boa little more particular,
rest of your life.
Witness—lt was 1830, I think.
Eliza Mathews, wife of the last witness, said—l have
known the prisoner about ta o years. He worked for Mr
Wild, a tailor, in Toolerstreet. Mr Wild is my brother-
in-law. It was while he was so era ployed that he first came
to our house. 1 recollect his coming to our place on Mon-
day, the 11th of July, betweenl\i t R
two and three o'clock. He
said he had come direct from r epseh's to wish us good
bye, previous to going to New York. About 4 o'clock, as
the ch ldren were coming trom school, I got the tea ready.
He made no observation about my husband. Ho said the
firm (Messrs. Hodgkinson) was going to send him out, and
that they were going to pay him £l5O per annum. He
said ho should like to have his salary half
yearly. He said
nothing more than that he had come to say good bye. I
recollect ho said he had met with an accident, and that the
firm was paying the doctor during his illness. I paid him
3s. that day for a small parcel of tea he brought me a few
weeks previously.
Ny sister, Mrs Blabbe, was present
when I paid him.
Mr Flower—Was she present during the conversation,
or only part of the time.
Witness—She came in just as Nvo had done our tea, so she
only heard part of the conversation.
Examination continued—Mrs. Mabbs also paid her
Is. Ed. Prisoner was then wearing a new
albert chain. He took it off stud put it into
my hand, and asked me what I thought of it.
At first I thought it was not a goud one, as the gold was
CO light. I told him I did not likeit as well as his old one,
and he replied " The chain is a very nice one." Ile thee
attached the chain on his waistcoat and put his hand into his
pocket; he took out a cardboard box and said "that is the
box the chain was in," He gave it to my little girl. 1
caw the name of Death on it, and I remarked that he was
a good jeweller. My little girl had the box playing with
the whole of the afternoon. I also observed that he had a
ring on his finger with a white cornelian stone, upon which
a head was engraved. He held out his hand for me to
look at it, and said his father had bent it him from Ger-

Witness—Yes.

many. I asked him if it was a family likeness, and he
said it was not. He left our house about six in the even-
ing, and I walked some distance with him towards the om-
nibus. Prisoner walked slow and lame. I bade him good-
bye, and the prisoner then said he thought he should come
on the following morning to see my husband. The next
day, about half-past eight in the morning, my husband trod
accidentally upon the little box. He made some observa-
tion as he picked up the box, and I then put it into a
drawer. My husband came home on the Monday night
following, about 10 o'clock at night, and I then gave the
box to him.

pointed out the carriage to him, and gave him possession
of the articles. I then proceeded to Bow, where
the carriage was placed in a shed, where it now remains•
It has never been used since. The train on that evening
took three minutes and a half to run from Bow to Hackney
Wick.

Mr Greenwood, station-master at the Chalk Farm station
of the North London Railway—On the night of the 9th of
July the last witness showed the interior of a first-c'ass
carriage of the train of which ho was the guard. I took
the hat, bag, and walking stick therefrom, and delivered
them to the police the next morning.

Mr. Flowers—Did prisoner say when he had met with
the accident.
Witness—Yes. He said he met with the accident on the
Monday previous to the Saturday, by a letter-cart ruining
over his foot at London Bridge.
Cross-examined-4 don't know that I owed the prisoner
more than three shillings. I can swear that I don't owe
him any more. I have been married t ) Mathews 12 years.
John Henry Glass—l reside at 91, Henry-street, Hemp-
steadr-oa,, and lam a tailor. lam in the employ of Mr.
Hodgkinson. I have known the prisoner about four years.
On Thursday the 12th of Jmy he came to me in the shop,
about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and asked me if
I would buy a watch. lie showed me a gold one.
He said that ho had also got a chain, but that it was
in pawn for £l. He told me he wanted money to go to
America, and that was the reason he asked me to purchase
the watch and chain for £4, because he could then go abroad.
I told him to come on the following Wednesday morning.
which he did about 9 o'clock. We both went to the pawn-
broker's and redeemed the chain. It was at a shop kept by
a Mr Barker. Ho afterwards went to Cox's, near Leicester-
square, and there the watch and chain were pawned by the
prisoner for Li. The prisoner actually pawned the things.
I took the ticket and he the money. It was pawned in ma
name. I gave him 5s more for the ticket, so altogether I
had advanced £1 ss, as I had to pay the money to take out
the chain. We then parted, prisoner saying he was going
to the Landon Docks to get a ticket for New York, and
he should come and bid me good-bye before he went ; and
he did so the same day about six o'clock in the evening
This was on the Wednesday following the 9th.
Mr Gifford, of 4, Queen's-square, Finsbury, assistant to '
Messrs Grinnell, shipowners—They have an office at the
North Quay of the London Dock. I open it about 9 in
the morning. I recollect the prisoner coming thore on the
13th of July last, about 11 o'clock in the morning. He
asked the price of the passage to New York, and I told
him Xi. He asked when the ship sailed. and I replied to-
morrow. He then went away. I was on duty at that office
on the previous Monday. If any person came to inquire
about a passage on that day I should have been sure to see
him. Nothing had passed between us relative to the pas-
sage to New York before the Wednesday. On that day he
returned to our office about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and
said, " I've come to pay my fare," and laid down Li, for
which I gave a contract ticket. [The contract ticket pro-
duced is the one I delivered to the prisoner.] After this
he went away, but returned, to the best of my belief, about
half-past 3, and brought his luggage. It consisted of
three parcels—two large and one small. I took no-
tice of one—it was done up in canvas—and
about 18 inches long and 9 wide. It did not appear to me
to contain a hard substance. He had a box, but I did not
see it. Ho asked me to take charge of his parcels, but I
refused. He then took thorn away, and I told him he would
have to leave them with Smith, the foreman of the docks.
Ehe next day the prisoner came to the vessel, the Victoria,
and went aboard, and was so when she hauled away. She
went into Shadwell Basin that afternoon, and on Friday
morning she sailed. I went with her as far as Gravesend.
The vessel went right on, with the prisoner on board.
By Mr Beard—l am not always at the office, sometimes
lam on board the ships. There is a German porter in the
office who would answer inquiries during my absence.
Mr Flower—Were you absent at all on the Monday ?
Witness—l might have been called away.
Mr Flower--And remained some time, I suppose ?

The case was still proceeding when we went to press.

THE INQUEST-THIS DAY.

This mulling Mr Humphreys, the coroner fur East
Middlesex, resumed the inquiry touching the death of I 1
Briggs, alleged to have been murdered en the 9th of July
on the North London Railway. Although so early an hour
as 8 o'clock was fixed for tLe commencement of the pro-

ceedings, o. large crowd assembled outside the Haan( y
Town-hall, in the hope of catching a glimpse of Mul er,
who. it had been arranged, would be in tetendance fir she
purpose of hearing read over the evidenc3 which had been
taken on previous days. The inquest room was densely
crowded.

Precisely at S o'clock Muller was brought lath the inquest

rot,m in custody of Inspector Tanner. He was brought
front the House of Detention in the prison van, and on
reaching the Town-hall he was received with loud execra
tions. On entering the inquest room he at once entered
into earnest conversation with Mr Beard, his solicitor, on
whose application witnesses were ordered out of court.
George Blythe said that Muller lodged in his house. He

eaw him en Saturday, the 9th July. On the following dey
they walked out together. He wore the dress, he had been
in the habit of wearing. He recognised Muller in Court.

By Mr Beard—He wore the same clothes on Sunday as
he had worn on Saturday.

By a Juror—He did not know whether he had any change
of linen.

Mrs Blythe, who was examined on a previous occasion,
was recalled, and identified Muller. She said he had six
new shirts when ho left.

Matthews the cabman, Mrs Matthews, Haffa, Sergeant
Clarke, Inspector Tanner, and Mr John Death identified
Muller as the person to whom they had referred in their
evidence.

Mr T. Briggs said his father usually wore his necktie
in a bow, and at the time of the occurrence he Ivor() a
mourning band on his hat. Ho believed that the hat which
had been produced and inspected was his father's.
The Coroner said this was the evidence on Nchich he
should wish the jury to consider their verdict. The inquiry
had extended over several days, and possibly some of it
might have escaped their recollection. The Coroner then
procerdrd to read the testimony of the various witnesses,
commencing with that of Mr Thomas Briggs, Muller lis-
tened with marked attention to the evidence, and several
times made remarks to Mr Beard on the subject of it. It
will be remembered that Mrs Buchanan, the niece of the
deceased, said in the course of her evidence that she knew
a person who had asked her uncle for a loan, which had
been refused. That person had declared he weuld do her
uncle an injury. This evidence seemed particularly to at-
tract Muller's attention, who evinced much astonishment
while it was being read.

On arriving at the evidence of Mr Leigh, who stated that
he saw two persons in the carriage with tho deceased on the
night of the murder, that gentleman, at the request of the
jury was recalled, and in answer to questions, said he could
not identify Muller as one of those persons.

A juror suggested that Muller might put on the hat
which was found in the carriage.

Muller put on the hat and stood up, but Mr Leigh could
not identity him.

Witness—Yo, sir.
Thomas Bacon, assistant to Mr Cox, pawnbroker, pro-
duced a gold watch and chain pawned by the prisoner.
[These were identified by the witness Glass as those he
purchased.) The articles were pledged for £4. I took them
in, but I cannot identify the prisoner as the person who
pledged the articles.

Mr Beard—Can you describe the two men you saw in the
carriage ?
Mr Leigh —The man who sat by the side of Mr Briggs
appeared to be a tall man with whiskers, but I only saw
him for a moment.
Mr Beard—Had he dark whiskers P

The watch and chain here spoken of were those belong-
ing to the prisoner, and not those stolen from the late Mr
Briggs.
Mr Digance—l am a hatter, and carry on business at the
Royal Exchange. Mr Briggs was a customer of mine, and
had been so for five and thirty years. I have made every
hat he has worn during that period. I took an order from
him in 1863. It was on the 24th of September—the parti-
culars are entered in my book. The hat was made expressly
for him, and sent home a few days after.
Mr. Giffard—Will you just look at the hat which has
been cut down,
Witness—The hat produced is a bell crowned hat, similar
to that I supplied Mr Briggs with in 1863. I have com-
pared the measurement of the hat with the figures entered
in my book, and it corresponds in every particular. The
hat when it was sent home was. found to be a trifle too large,
and the next day Mr Briggs came into the shop, and I
pasted apiece of tissue paper underneath the leather inside the
hat. I find the piece of paper has been removed, but small
fragments of it remain adhering to the hat, which clearly
shows there had been tissue paper all round. The hat is now
shorter than it was when it left my shop. It hes been cut
down from one inch to an inch and a half. It has not been
done as a hatter would do it. It is very nicely done by an
inexperienced hand. It is now stitched on. If a hatter
had had to effect such an alteration he would have used a
composition for such a purpose. When a hat is made to
order we always put the name of the person for whom

it is made inside it, just by the band. The place
where I should have placed it in the hat
now before me is gone with the part which
has been cut off. Mr William Thorne is the name of the
person who aotually manufactured the hat.
By Mr Beard—lt is not an unusual thing to put tissue
paper inside hats. When the hat is too large at the side
wo place tissue paper in that part. I never saw the hat
after I put the paper inside until it was shown to me. We
sometimes give the old hats left at our shop away. The
hat now in my hand is a genuine hat.

Mr Leigh—Yes. I think so. (Muller has scarcely any
whiskers, and what he has are very light.)

Mr Giffird--You have the hat now in your hand ; will
you swear that it is the one you made for Mr Briggs.
Witness—l will not undertake to swear that if the pieces
that has been cut away were hero I could then say whether
or no.

Mr Board—Or, I suppose, you mean to say it would en-
able you to speak more positively.

Frederick William Thorne—l am a hat manufacturer. I
made the hat now put into my hand. It has my private
mark inside. I furnished the hat for Mr Digance.
Mr Gifford—ls it in the same state now as when you
furnished it.

Mr BcOrd—Describe the other man ?

Mr Leigh—He was a slighter man with light whiskers.
Mr Beard—About what age ?
Mr Leigh—l cannot say.
In answer to a juryman, Mr Leigh said he could not
tell whether the man had dark or light whiskers, or
whether he had any whiskers at all, as he only saw
him for a moment.

Mr and Mrs Repsch wore called and identified Muller
as the person they had referred to in their evidence.
The Coroner having finished the evidence, cautioned
Muller in the usual way, and asked him his name and age ?

lie said his name was Franz Muller, and that he was 24
years of age.

The Coroner asked him whether he had anything to say
or any questions to put to the witnesses who had been
examined ?

Muller—l have nothing to s•ay now.
The Coroner said that under those circumstances the pri-
soner might lya removed from the court. Ho was then con-
veyed away in the prison van amidst load yolk from the
crowd.
'When order had been restored,

The Coroner then commented upon the evidence,
tracing the deceased from the house at Peckham, where ho
had dined, until the time he was fonnd on the railway.
Adverting to the medical evidence, he said it was clear that
some of the injuries from which Mr Briggs suffered were
caused by blows, while others were occasioned by the fall
from the carriage, With regard to two persons being in the
carriage with Mr Briggs when Mr Leigh saw him, he did
not attach much importance to it, as there was ample time
fel either of the persons to get out, He next commented
upon the discovery of the hat, the exchange of the chain,
&0., at Mr Death's, and the confirmatory el, Vence which
was supplied on Muller's capture by the officers of juste
tico. At the same time, they must remember
that Muller had a fortnight previously announced his
intention of going to America ; but then, again, he had not
sufficient money to pay his passage, which accounted for
his desire to possess it. Looking at all the circumstances,
he thought the jury could not come to any other conclusion
than that Mr Briggs died from violence, and it would be
for them to say whether the evidence was sufficient to
connect any person with the murder, for it was either a
murder or nothing.
The jury retired, and, after an absence of 20 minutes,
returned and found—" That the deceased died from the
effects of great violence administered in a railway carriage
on the night of the 9th of July last, and that Francis
Muller is the person by whom the murder was
committed. The jury, while passing their verdict,
take this opportunity of expressing their disapprobation
at the present state of railway accommodation as affording
facilities for the perpetration of various crimes and offences,
and earnestly desire to call the attention of the Home Go-
vernment to the subject, and to the necessity of enforcing
the adoption by railway companies of some more efficient
system of protection to life, character, and property."
The Coroner then made out his warrautifor the committal
of Muller.

Witness—Certainly not ' • it has been cut down.
Mr Giffard—ls the work done as a hatter would do it?
Witness—No; a hatter would have used composition
and varnish, The shortening of the hat now before me
had been sowed round, and not done in any respect like a
a workman would effect such an alteration
Mr Flowers—Do you think the sewing is neatly done P
Witness—Yes, sir, I should say it is very neatly done.
Mr Samuel Tituaarsh—l reside at Church-street,
Hackney, and am a watchmaker. I know the late Mr
Briggs as a customer for the last seven or eight years. The
witness hero examined the Watch handed to him by Inspec-
tor Tanner with his glass, and immediately afterwards he
said—l now know that this watch was the property of the
late Mr Briggs. I had the watch to clean on the Gth of
February, 1863, on which occasion I made sOlllO figures
inside the case which still remain there.
Mr Thomas Fishbourne, of Lucas.street, Commercial-
road—l am a ticket collector at the Fenchurch-street
station of the Blackwall Railway. I attend at the bottom
of the stairs leading to the North London Railway trains.
I knew the late Mr Briggs by sight. I saw him on Satur-
day night, the 9th of July, at a quarter to ten. 110 spoke
to me.
Mr Giffard—Do you recollect what ho said ?
Mr Beard—l must object to that,
Mr Giffard—lt is immaterial, and therefore I shall not
press it.
Witness--My attention was called to the outrage on the
Sunday afternoon. I then went to Bow with Sergeant
Lambert, and from thence to Mr Briggs's house at Hackney.
Police-constable 71 B. said—l was on duty in Wick-lane,
Bow, on the 9th of July last. I heard a cry of a man on
the lino. I afterwards saw several persons carry the body
of a gentleman to the Mitford Arms. I searched the body.
I found the shirt much disordered. There was a black stud
in it. There were and some keys in one of the pockets,
but I have returned the keys to the bank. In the right hand
trousers pocket was 8s in silver, and in the side pocket various
letters and papers, by which I was enabled to ascertain
who he was. The gentleman had a diamond ring on the
small finger of the left hand. There was a new sort of
watch-fastening on one of the waistcoat button-holes, but
as I did not know how to get it out I left it there. I have
measured the spot at which the body was found, and I
found it is 1,434 yards from Bow station, and 740 from the
Hackney 'Wick station, The entire distance from Bow to
Hackney Wick is 1 mile 414 yards.
The Court here adjourned for ton minutes.
Oa the reassembling of the Court,
Benjamin Haines was called—He said, lam a guard on
the North London Railway. I was the guard of the train
that loft Fenchurch-street at 9 50 p.m. on the 9th of July
last. Tho train was five minutes late at starting. The
same train goes add returns at that hour. On our return.
ing to Hackney in about half a minute after the train had
stopped, my attention was called to a first-class carriage near
the engine. I got my lamp from the break soon, and when 1
got back I found the gentleman waiting who had first called
lay attention to the carriage. When I saw the carriage
first the door was open, and I found blood on the near Bide
cushion, and saw blood also trickling down the glass win-
low. The handle of the cif side door had blood on it. The
loor was fast. I know the handle had blood on it, because
when I touched it I felt a dampness on my hand, which
on getting to the light I found to be blood. I found
the hat, bag, and walking-stick in the carriage. left
them there, locked the carriage up, telegraphed to Chalk
Farm, and on arrival there I saw Mr. Greenwood, I