The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-10 00:00:00

the two candidates of the Presidency, but because
he was Abraham Lincoln, legally elected to and in
possession of that high office. Their object was to
remonstrate against the act of one of his subordinates
—a candidate for the Vice-Presidency, who abused
his position as military Governor of their State to
impose a test oath, the E ft. c t of which would be to
deter from voting, or to dizallow, if tendered, the
vote of every inhabitant who would not swear that
he had " loyally" supported the existing adminis-
tration in all acts and proclamations; that he bad
never given aid or C9Mfort to a rebel, though that
rebel might have been his own fazher,son, or brother
wounded in battle and returning home to die; and
who would not pledge himself to oppose either peace
or an armistice with the South, until " peke"
and " armistice" became words of no account by
the total suppression of the rebellion. The people
of Tennessee, as well as the people of New York or
any other State, have the undoubted right to con-
sider the imposition of such an oath a gross outrage,
and it is possible, if the Constitution of the United
States expressly prohibited the re-election of a
President, that Mr, Lincoln might have taken as
unfavourable a view of Mr. Andrew Johnson's
proceedings as that held by the deputation. But
Mr. Lincoln, the candidate, could not rise to the
height of a sound argument. Forgetting that he
was the President, he told the deputation that as
Gen: M'Clellan's friends were conducting the elec-
tion in their way, he (Mr Lincoln) would conduct it
in his way; and the deputation retired to tell their
story to the world, and add one more to the mass of
daily accumulating proofs that American liberty
only exists upon military sufferance, if it did not
wholly expire with V'ie Presidential term of Mr
IBuchanan. It is not charged by anybody that Gen.
M'Clellan's friends are acting illegally, unconstitu-

male prisoner said a young man whom they called John,
and whose acquaintance he (the prisoner) had made during
a recent passage from Hamburg to London, was missing.
He told me the missing young man was a lodger with him
and that he had previously lodged at the house of Mrs
Warren, the last witness, which lodgings he did not like.
He said when he came away from Mrs Warren's to lodge
with him he had no money, and had pawned his clothes.
He said that on Thursday last, the 3d inst., he left hoine
with him in the morning, and went to the London Docks for
the purpose of looking for a ship, bat there was no ship there
of the kind they wanted. He then said that after leaving the
London Docks they (pr:soner and the young man) went into
the upper part of the Commercial-road about 1 o'clock in the
afternoon. Prisoner proceeded into a t ugar bakery there,
leaving the young German in the street. On returning to the
street he missed him and made a search atter him, but could
not find him, and had not seen him since. He afterwards said
he had been to Silvertown and seen the body found in the
reeds, and was not sure it was that of " John," as it had
no head. The trousers, he said, were like his. I then
sent the prisoners in a cab, accompanied by Mr Inspector
Nightingale, to meet me at the Plaistow station.
Henry Lee, a youth about 18. was the next witness. He
said—l live at No. 2, Hu-street, Plaistow-marsh, and am
a labourer. Last Thursday morning, the 3d inst., about 10
o'clock, I was at work at Plaistow, and I saw the male pri-
soner and the young man John, whom I believe to be the
deceased, walking along the river wall, near the sugar-
house, towards Silvertown. That was in the direction from
London. I made a remark to the man who was working
with me that these wero the two men whom I had seen at
Zatch's, where I lodged. I have not seen the young man
since.. He had on a dark dress and was of fair complexion.
I knew him by sight. I have frequently spoken to the pri-
soner at the bar. It would be about four minutes' walk from
the spot where I saw the deceased and the male prisoner to
the reeds where the body was found. I saw the prisoner in
the afternoon of the same day, and he toll me that the young
man was missing. I replied to him, " I saw you and the
young man this morning about 10 o'clock walking by the
river bank." The prisoner said nothing in reply. He after-
wards told me he had gone to London in the morning to a
sugar-house—that he left the young man outside—that
when he come out the young man was gone, and that when
he returned home he found his clothes also gone.
Sergeant Brigley, 65, K division, was then called. He
said—At about a quarter to two yesterday afternoon I re.
ceived information of this affair. I went to the river bank
opposite the graving-dock on the North Woolwich-road, and
saw the body. There was a mark or indentation in the
soft earth as if where the back of the head had been, and
there was a small portion of the brain on the ground near
the mark where the head had been, and close to where
the neck must have lain. The mark I saw on the earth
would be where the head had rested before it was cut off.
I examined the body, and searched the pockets. In the left
hand trouser pocket I found a farthing wrapped in a piece
of paper. In the other pocket there was a small piece of
paper, upon which there were some German words. There
was a small piece of white shirt lying under the body, by
the left arm. On the shirt was marked "O. 8., 6." I
had the body removed to the Graving Dock Tavern, and
the prisoners were arrested on the charge of being concerned
in the murder of the man. The male prisoner was cautioned
in the usual manner. He said, "I know well where I was
on that —."
The Chairman—Dia he not say the hour or eay ?
The Witness—He did not. The prisoner's clothes were
then removed, and a fresh suit given to him.
The Chairman (to the prisoner)—Will you ask this wit-
ness any questions ?
The male Prisoner—No (shaking his head).
The Chairman inquired of the police whether the head of
the dead man had been found.
Mr Superintendent Howie said that the head had been
found at 8 o'clock that morning about 30 yards from where
the body was found. They had not had time to have the
head examined, but the medical men would make the usual
post mortem examination in due course.
It was stated that the head was buried a few inches under
the ground, and discovered by Inspector Good, of the
Thames Police, and that there were several rat holes in the
immediate vicinity.
Sergeant Clarke, of the detective department of polic ,
was then called as a witness by the Bench, but stated that
his evidence was incomplete, as he had not had sufficient
time to investigate the wetter, and that he holed his testi-
mony-would be postponed.
Atter some brief conversation,
Mr Superintendent Howie suggested that, as there was
no evidence to criminate the female prisoner, she should be
discharged.
The Chairman concurred, and said she would be at once
discharged, but with regard to the male prisoner, he would
be remanded to Ilford Gaol for further examination.
The prisoner, Karl Kohl, in broken English, was under-
stood to say, " What for ? Can't is be settled now ?''
The Chairman—Yen, Kohl, are charged on suspicion of
having caused the death of the deceased man John Fuhrhop,
and we remand you for further inquiry upon that charge.
The female prisoner was carried away in a swoon by her
brother, who fondly kissed her, her mother being also pre-

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sent.
The male prisoner was then handcuffed and taken to
Ilford Gaol in a cab, in charge of Inspector Nightingale and
constable 312 K. A. large crowd was in the vicinity of the
court, and it was with some difficulty that tne prisoner
could be conducted to the cab.

DISCOVERY OF THE HEAD ANT) THE SCENE
OF THE MURDER..
The circumstances of horror surrounding the perpetration
of the murder and the decapitation of the unfortunate Ger-
man (Fuhrhop), have created such extraordinary excitement
in the neighbourhood of Silvertown, that a number of per-
sons, estimated at 4,00), yesterday went to view the body.
They were in most instances permitted to see the remains,
not only to endeavour to corroborate the identification by
means of the clothes (for the head was found only yesterday),
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but also to give an opportunity of ascertaining whether any
person had seen him walking with his murderer towards the
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been
found who could add anything material to the testimony of
the boy Lee against the accused, Kohl.
A discovery of some importance was made yesterday
afternoon by some residents in the neighbourhood, and when
the police authorities are made acquainted with it, it will
no doubt lead to the finding of the weapon with which the
crime was perpetrated, It was at first supposed that the
murder was effected on the spot where the headless body
was found, but a careful examination of the ground insti-
tuted towards evening yesterday has disproved this suppo-
sition.
The North Woolwich-road, which runs past the Victoria
Graving Dock, is parallel to the river as it approaches Silver-
town. The quarter of a mile of marsh land which lies be-
tween the road and the Thames, is for the greater part
covered with reeds 7ft. and a half high. A narrow path.
way, not more than 18 inches in width,leads from the direc-
tion of the road through the rushes towards the river, Any
person walking along this track would find on his left hand,
about hallway through, a still narrower path going towards
another part of the river bank, but to get on to it he would
find it necessary to cross a ditch 7ft. wide and three cr four
feet deep, the bottom being covered with thick mud rather
than water. This was the exact spot where the murder was
committed, the body decapitated, and whence mangled re-
mains were conveyed to the place where the headless trunk
was afterwards found, and which is about 15 or 20 yards
further up the second path.
In the course of the search that was being made this little
path, almost entirely obscured by the overhanging of the
tall reeds, was struck upon, and upon the persons coming
to the ditch which has been mentioned, they were horrified
at seeing at the bottom of it a pool of blood 4ft. long by lft.
broad. The marks made by the victim's boots as he stood
in the ditch, evidently with his back to his murderer, and
also the marks of the feet of the murderer when he was lift-
ing up out of is the lifeless body of his victim,were distinctly
visible. A trace of blood was found anlong the middle of
the rushes from this spot to the place where the body was
carried or dragged. About two-thirds of the distance along
the path was seen a circular patch of blood, such as would
have been caused if the dissevered head had been laid down
there for a moment by its still bleeding on the surface.
The consideration of these facts, and of others to be men-
tioned presently, showed at once how the diabolical crime
had been effected. The murderer and his victim must have
left the road and struck into the first pathway to go towards
the river. One must have walked behind the other, for two
could not have found room to walk abreast. Upon coming
to the ditch which had to be crossed before getting into the
second path, the murdered man without doubt deecended
into it first. Before he could have got ono step across lit,
evidently received a tremendons blow on the left
temple and over the eyo (the marks of this blow are clearly
present on the hear), and he was thus thrown backwards
against the slopping bank in a such a manner that the heel;
of his boots were driven into the yielding clay at the ditch
bottom. No marks of a struggle are to be found: Tho
murderer, having stunned his unsuspecting victim by a
blow which broke in the skull, obviously continued on the
vantage ground of the bank, and with a knife—a large-
bladed one, as the gashes show—severed the head from the
body. From the large quantity of blood found in the shal-
low pool in the bottom of the ditch and the mere trace of it
along the path, it was evident that the body must have been
iu the ditch a stifle ent time to allow all the blood to drain
from it. No doubt some considerable time was occupied in
hacking the vertebrae of the neck with a knife not particu-
larly sharp. The deep indentation made by the boots of the
murderer when he stood in the centre of the ditch to lift
out the body of the deceased in order to hide it in the rushes
`partwas quite plain. Having got it upon the further bank, it
ly
dragged, partly lifted through the narrow path for

It is a singular fact that when the reporter saw the body
the head of the deceased,which had been found in the mar sh,
was lying between the feet of the murdered man. The left
eye was closed, and the right eye was blackened. The upper
portion of the forehead was battered in, and the flesh over
the left eye was torn away. The right eye was entirely
gone, and the features still bare a natural composure.
Tnere were five witnesses examined, who saw the head and
clothes of the deceased under the authority of Superinten-
dent Howie, and they were requested to be in attendance
on the resumption of the inquiry before the magistrates at
Ilford on Saturday next.
It seems from what can be learned that the deceased
had been in the habit of frequenting the spot where he was
found.

The inquest will be opened this evening at 6 o'clock, by
Mr C. C. Lewis, the coroner for Essex, and from the facts
which have reached the notice of Mr Superintendent Howie,
some important evidence will transpire.
The police, last night at 10 o'clock, were still prosecuting
their inquiries to assist the coroner.

Extraordinazy Conduct of a Welsh]

Magistrate.

The Carnarvon and Denbigh Herald
_describes
an extraordinary scene which occurred at a meeting
on municipal matters recently held at Denbigh. A
Mr Lloyd was speaking, when Mr George Griffith,
a county magistrate, interrupted him :
The Chairman—l must bring you to order, Mr Griffith.
Mr Lloyd is addressing the meeting. (Cheers.)
Mr Griffith—Nothing of the sort, sir I There is no meet-
ing. (Laughter, cheers, and confusion, loud cries resound-
ing on all sides of " Turn him out, turn him out I" But the
valiant old gentleman, nothing daunted, began to pull off
his coat, as if trying to tear the fastenings asunder, and
after this he made a spring to jump upon the desk. A score
of hands pulled him back, and a jostle took place, in the
course of which he nearly hit the chairman, and after him
Mr Lloyd, of Brook House, finishing up by bawling met—
"D— you all l'' (Tremendous cheering.) And then to
the cries of " Turn him out, turn him out ! Chair, chair,"
&c. from a hundred throats, he cried, " You are all a d—
set of blackguards ! Mr Gold Edwards is not your chair-
man." (Chair, chair.) " I tell you he is not your chair.,
man." (Great confusion.)
The Chairman—l must have order. You must allow
Mr Lloyd to add: ess the meeting. (Cheers.)
Mr Griffith —No, by —, he shall not address tho meet-
ing. There is no meeting, It's all ad— humbug I It's
a scandalous farce—a trick. (Great shouting.) It shall
last no longer—(renewed shouting)—but d— my blood if
ever I met such a set of blackguards in all my life be-
(Tremendous cheering and shouting.) There is no
1 say I It is a private meeting. You (to the chair-
may sit there as long as you like, but it is no meet-
mg. (Cries for "Mr Gold Edwards," and a voice, " Why
did not you attend the meeting in proper time?")
Mr Griffith—Well, d— it all! We will go out elsewhere,
and have a meeting of our own. (Great cheering.)
The Chairman—l call upon Mr Lloyd to go on with his
address to the meeting. (Cheers.)
Mr Griffith—Yen shan't remain in the chair—l'm d— if
you sl.ail. (Great uproar.)
The Chairman—Bat I will, sir, and Mr Lloyd shall ad-
dress the meeting. (Loud cheers.)
Mr Griffin—D—, must I tell you again that there is no
meeting. It's a private meeting, (Laughter and uproar.)
The Chairman—l certainly hope that Mr Griffith will
fine himself for swearing. (Applause.)
Mr Griffith actually gnashing his teeth, and the most
amusing thing of the evening occurred now. Little Dr.
Frank Ed wards said to him, "For God's sake let me advise
you to calm yourself. You'll ,t-o in a 114 or bream a bluva -
vessel."
Mr Griffith—What the d—l is that to you, sir. (Great
laughter.)
The Chairman—This is the most disgusting language I
ever heard. It is a disgrace to humanity. (Loud cheers.)
Mr Griffith—Sir, your humanity is not worth a d—,
(Great laughter and uproar.)
The Chairman—Sir, you aro a disgrace to her Majesty's
commission. (Cheers.)
Mr Griffith—Sir, I do not care a d— for her Majesty, or
you. (Immense confusion.)
The Chairman called for Sergeant David Davies, the po-
liceman, but there was no response ; and then
Mr Griffith, after a little silence, said—Let me have just
a word or two. Let me see Dew, the hallkeeper. I will leave
you all to yourselves. Dew I Dew I Dew D— it, is Dew
the hallkeeper, here ? (No reply, but a perfect storm of
laughter.)
The Chairman—l have again to call upon Mr Lloyd to
go on. (Cheers.)
Mr Griffith—And I have again to say he shall not.
(Laughter and cheers.)
Dr Frank Edwards said that somebody had told him this
was a public meeting.
Mr Burdon, the tanner, asked if it was not, at all events,
a ratepayers' meeting ?
Mr Griffith bawled out—No, it was merely a supporters'
meeting. (Chair, chair, was being called all along, and at
this juncture he pulled off his coat and neckcloth.)
The Chairman—Now, Mr Lloyd, will you go on ?
Mr Griffith—No, he shall not, until this room is given
up to us as a private room, nobody shall speak, (Tremen-
dous shouting ensued for Mr Lloyd; and somebody, amid
great laughter, added, "I was invited to a public meet-
ing.")
The Chairman—This, I maintain, is a public meeting;
and I must have the chair supported. (Cheers.)
Then Mr Griffith again shouted that it was not a
public meeting, and he proposed that Mr Gold Edwards
be told to quit the chair, (No, no.) Here Mr Griffith
attempted to unseat the chairman, but was baulked by Mr
Lloyd; and in reply to a sharp rebuke from the chairman,
Griffith bawled out—l have seen a better man than you, sir,
pitched out. (Great uproar.)
After a good deal more of the same sort of thing, Mr
Griffith caught sight of the reporters. He roared—By
fi
here are the fellows taking notes. Turn them out. Turn
then out, Where are the police!' Turn them out. D—
their eyes, they always report lies. (Great laughter.)
Where are the police ? (Cries of Report every word,' &c.)
No police coming, and the reporters quietly going on with
their notes. Mr Griffith leaned over as far as ha could
without losing his balance, and addressing the reporters he
poured out a volley of oaths and epithets which could hardly
be indicated even by single letters and blanks. It appeared
at one time as if he would get down and himself try to turn
out the reporters, but the audience formed a cordon around,
and he did not attempt this, Just now some one strove to
lift Mr Griffith bodily off his legs and remove him, but he
held on by the front of the bench, and in a horizontal posi-
tion defied all Effort to remove him. Hereupon another
jostling match took place on the bench, and presently a
policeman really did come upon the scene and collared
Mr Griffith, but from behind. Upon which Mr Griffith,
jun , got hold of the policeman's throat, an I, pinning him
up against somebody between the officer and the wall,
defied him to touch his father, Cheers were ringing all
the while, and the throttled policeman made a desperate
effort to do something, Dr Pierce got up and cried to him,
" Dont I Don't attempt to do anything to the old man, Ho
is not responsible for his acts." After this frtehtful row had
continued for some time, Mr Griffith, juu. and other friends
succeeded in dragging Mr Griffi'h from the platform, and
ultimately out of the room—Mr Griffith swearing he would
hare a meeting below, and asking his party to follow him.
His party, however, refused to do this, but he obtained an
audience of the boys of the town, and harangued them from
the foot of the stair, eliciting immense applause, which was
frequently heard in the hall above.

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