The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-19 00:00:00

SCENE: AT EUSTON STATION.

The train which left Camden Town at 2.40 reached the
Euston terminus in three or four minutes, or as nearly as
possible at about 2.4.5. Here another tremendous scene of
excitement presented itself, seeing that precautionary mea-
sures, or supposed precautionary measures, had been taken
to exclude the public. The immense number of persons
assemlsled, certainly not less than a thousand, was truly
astounding, and it appeared to require all the energies of a
strong body of police, personally under the superintendence
of Mr Loaton, superintendent of the division, to keeplor. ler.
The privilege of riding in the carriage immediately in front
of that in which Muller was sitting, enabled our reporter to
obtain an excellent view of all that transpired, and of the
appearance and conduct of the accused himself on alighting
from the train. The train was pulled up in such a manner
that the last carriage barely reached the northern end of
the arrival platform, and the carriage in which Muller was
when brought to a stand, was immediately opposite the
side gate in Seymour-street, facing Gee-street, and in rear
of the clearing house. Here the Bow-street police van was
drawn up with its door bac'dng towards the train. The
moment the accused was identified by being brought out of
the carriage in which he had been riding, the cheers and
groans by which he was assailed were tremendous—the
cheers proceeding from evident gratification at the fact of
his capture and arrival at so close a proximity to the scene
Of his supposed crime, and the groans indicating the horror
and indignation felt at its perpetration. Muller evidently
felt this, as, though he jumped from the carriage in a light
and easy manner, the increased pallor of his countenance
told that he comprehended the position in which ho was
placed. The crush and pressure to got a sight of hin was
at this moment terrific, and it was with great difficulty that
Inspector Tanner and Sergeant Clarke, who had each hold
of his arm, urged him forward to the steps of the prison
van, into which he was literally lifted, wh Ist the detectives
jumped in after him. In an instant after the van was driven
amidoff the cries and execrations of the public, who not
onlycrowded the platform, but even the roots of the railway
carriages in every direction. The van drove out through
the iron gates into Drummond-street, where another salute
greeted the supposed
murderer,
and !passing along the
Hampstead-road
and Tettenham Court-road, reached
Endell-street, St. Giles's,and so on to the Bow street station.
APPEARANCE OF MtiLLE
In spite of the cool and indifferentN HIS ARRIVAL.
aspect which Muller
exhibited when the Liverpoel express
arrivedeeti at the Camden
station, and when he first heard the
greeting
astore for
him on his reaching London, there was evidentlyin
alteration in his appearance on his arrival at
ustmonarked
ter-
minus when he stepped from the train, and during the short
and blamed intervals that elapsed between his leaving the

railway carriage and entering the police van in:waiting to
convey him to the Bow-street station. The shouts and exe-
crations by which he was received appeared to have a strong
effect upon him. He looked deadly pale and e '• •d. He
was dressed in a somewhat shabby black sho e Cambridge
cut coat and dark waistcoat, with light spe; d trousers.
His neckerchief was black, with white spets, and he wore a
somewhat dirty and eld-locking straw 12.1!-, with a dirty
black or blue band round it. In stature he is about sft Gin
high, of pale, sallow complexion, wi,h light sandy•look-
ing hair, and a very little of the same light colour about
the chin. His head and face is el the round German cast,
widening rather than otherwise towards the chin ; and his
frame, whilst it is not of that thin and attenuated appear-
ance which has been represented, does not exhibit that of a
man of any great muscular power; and an impression pre •
veiled that, judging from the description given of the late
Mr Briggs, as being that of a strong and powerful hale
man, although aged, it would be hardly possible that Muller
could have mastered him single-handed, unless he had in
the first instance inflicted a blow that had rendered him in-
sensible. It is stated that on his arrival at Bow. street his
previous coolness had returned, and he entered the station
from the police van without any assistance, and appeared
to take little notice of the exciting scene by which he was
surrounded.

AIUtIVAL AT BOW STREET.-IMMENSE EX-
CITEMENT IN COURT.

Notwithstanding the announcement in the morning
papers that Muller would not arrive in London till half-
past 2 o'clock in the afternoon, a large and eager crowd took
possession of Bow-streef shortly after 9 o'clock, in the firm
belief, apparently, that the prisoner would arrive during
the night, and would be brought before the magistrate in
the course of the morning. At 10 o'clock a rush was made
to get admission to the court, the repeated assurances of
the officers that the case was not coming on till Monday
being totally disbelieved and disregarded. The few trivial
charges which had been entered upon the night sheet were
consequently heard by Mr Flowers in the presence of a court
most inconveniently crowded. During the progress of the
cases the son of the late Mr Briggs entered the court merely
to seek some information from Mr Burnaby, the chief clerk,
but the circumstance was regarded as a sign that Muller
was at hand, and created a decided "sensation." Mr.
Briggs however remained only a few minutes.
It had been arranged that the examination should com-
mence at 11 o'clock if Muller arrived over night, but shortly
before that hour, owing to the telegrams received that the
prisoner would not arrive till the afternoon, the Solicitor
to the Treasury, Mr Pollard, accompanied by Mr Gifford,
for the N.L.R. Company, had a private interview with Mr
Burnaby, and it was determined to postpone the examina-
tion till Monday morning, it being considered impossible to
collect the witnesses or make any material progress with
the case at so late an hour of the day. This conclusion was
therefore announced to Mr Flowers, and the court was
cleared. The crowd outside, however, was not to be so
easily appeased. When the vans arrived with the ordinary
prisoners they were besieged, and when any one at all
approaching the description of Muller was about to alight
from the steps, he was assailed by cries of "That's him 1"
" There's Muller,",Stc., although probably he had been only
in trouble about a bad shilling or a pocket handkerchief.
These salutations caused much surprise to the inmates of
the vans, and much amusement to the mob when the mis-
take became known. But as the afternoon approached
rumours became rife that Muller would be brought direct
from the Euston station to Bow-street; and although no
positive information upon the subject could be gathered by
the populace from the constables on duty, who really were
ignorant of the facts themselves, there were obvious signs
that some such step was in contemplation ; consequently
the excitement_of the people as 3 o'clock drew near became
intense, and an extra force of police was found necessary to
keep open a passage for the ordinary traffic. Every cab
that drew up with a couple of gentlemen or more inside was
eagerly pounced upon, and quiet people in pursuit of busi-
ness or making for the trains suddenly found themselves
suspected of being concerned in the outrage on Mr Briggs.
One gentleman especially, of slight stature, and with sandy
hair, was assailed as Muller with such perseverance that he
showed evident signs of displeasure, the more so as the
stoppage of the cab opposite the station door, an accident,
necessitated by the thoroughfare being blocked up at the
moment, had led to some demonstration on the part of the
roughs, although followed by shouts of laughter. At length
a cry of " Muller is coming 1" was heard in the distance,
and a police van, crowded with constables outside, and fol-
lowed by an excited and almost breathless mass of people,
was seen coming down Bow-street. It was soon apparent
that the long-endnring patience of the mob would be re-
warded by at least a chance of a glimpse of Muller. A
desperate rush was made at the van as it drove down Bow-
street up to the door of the police station, and at one time
there appeared- some risk of its being ttuned over, but a
dozen or two of the constables pushed against the near side
of the van, and equilibrium was fortunately not
disturbed. It was some little time before a passage
could be cleared for the transit of the prisoner and his
attendants, but at length the door was opened, and the first
person to alight from the van with a light, jaunty step was
Franz Muller himself. Then arose a storm of hissing and
groaning of a most unmistakeable character, but it did not
in the slightest degree disconcert the prisoner. The people
seemed surprised at the slight, mean, and shabby appear-
ance of the man who had been so long the theme of uni-

cereal discussion. Far below thu middle height, excessively

plain looking and ill-featured, and with light-coloured hair
projecting from under his hat, garments thin and seedy,
and wearing a white broad brimmed and somewhat weather
beaten straw hat, he really was not " equal to the occasion"

in the estimate of the crowd, who freely commented upon
the disappointment which they had experienced. " What ?"'
said one stalwart ragged denizen of Seven Dials, he murder
Mr Briggs—he chuck a big man out of the carriage I why
he couldn't do it." Speedily, however, Muller was out of

their sight. Superintendent Durkin took him by the arm,
followed by Inspectors Tanner and Williamson, the former
being almost as much an object of interest to the spectators
as Muller himself, Muller was at once taken to the inspec-
tors' room, where he was received by Mr West, and placed
at the bar while Mr Durkin entered the charge upon the
sheet. When Muller was asked his address, he replied,
" At 16, Park-terrace, Old Ford-road, Victoria Park," the
house at which Muller was lodging before his departure to
Amerina. lie appeared still unmoved, but when the words
were read over to him, "charged with having wilfully mur-
dered Thomas Briggs on tha night of the 9th of July last,"
his head drooped a little, and there was an obvious tremor
throughout his frame. He appeared weak when he was
about to be removed to his cell, after the sheet had been
signed by Inspector West, but he recovered a little after-
wards, and walked across the station• yard with at leaet an

affectation of nonchalance. lie was then locked up, there

being strict injunctions from the authorities o:Scotland-yard
that no one should be permitted to be present, or to have
any interview s ith the prisoner, except his accredited soli-
citor, Mr Thomas Beard, on behalf of the German Society.
Mr. Beard was present during the formal proceedings of
entering the charge, and about an hour afterwards he was
admitted to the prisoner's cell, accompanied by German
gentleman (Dr. Juch we believe), who was to act as an in-
terpt °ter if necessary, the interpreter for the Crown being
Reimer, an intelligent police officer of the A division. Mr.
Beard had a long interview with his client, but, of cource,
nothing that took place between them has been permitted
to transpire.

The following is a sample of the kind of letters constantly

received by the magistrate on these occasions :
" to Mr flouers, magerstato, bow streete pleace statien.—
Sir, i rote to mister henery about a young woman that is
suspected by many to have a hand in the murder of mister
Briggs in tact it can be proved by her coming home at 101,
that morning and her black Shaul all over blood, and i am
sorry to see she has got off so well. She lives at Islington.
I told you before her name and address and she is s dark
girl with black wavy hair but i am very sorry she as es-
caped as she as, as she had a hand in it as I stated before.
She is going to Calcutta the 10th of next month as I stated
before this time."
The name and address of the young girl alluded to are
enclosed, but the letter itself is anonymous, and evidently
written In a feigned hand.