The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-14 00:00:00

ITALY.

The following is the text of the bill brought into
the Italian Chamber of Deputies by the Minister of
the Interior in favour of Turin :--
"Art. 1. A consolidated 5 per cent. rente of
767,000 f. shall be inscribed on the Great Book of
the Public Debt of the State in favour of the munici•
pality of Turin from the Ist of January, 1865.
" Art. 2. In case the aforesaid municipality should
at his own expense undertake to provide Turin with
a considerable water-power, the King's Government
shall be authorised to inserit e on the Great Book of
the State another 5 per cent. rente, the ncminal
vane of which shall be equal to the capital may
employed in that work. Nevertheless, the rente to
be inscribed shall not exceed 300,000 f."

The Mysterious Murder at Sunninghill
Park.

During the whole of last week Mr Superintendent Ire
monger of the Berks Constabulary, has been actively en•
gaged in a series of investigations with the object of disco
vering, if possible, the actual murderer of Mrs El'zabeth
Butler, the poor old woman who was killed in Mr
Crutchley's lodge at Sunuinghill Park. Clue after clue
has been followed up closely, and the result has been that
some most important information has been obtained. No
owner has been found at Winkfield for the trammel-net
pawned by the prisoner, William Smith, and which is now
in the possession of the police. It seems, however, that on
the 15th of last month, the day of the murder, a young
man named Robert Faulkener, who had driven over from
Spital, near Windsor, to Wingfield, with a horse and cart,
on his return about 7 o'clock in the evening met in the road
at Fern Hill two tramps, a man and a woman, who had
with them a dog. The man wore a guernsey, cord trousers,
and billycock hat, while the woman was dressed in a dark
cotton gown, black shawl, and dirty straw bonnet ; this
description thus tallying
with that of the tramp who has
been apprehended, and the woman who was seen in his
company near Marlow, The tramps asked Faulkener—who
was afraid to refuse them—to give them a lift along the
road, and he accordingly drove them as far as the model
cottages, just outside the entrance to Windsor Park, whore
they got out and left him. On Thursday last Mr Superin-
tendent Iremonger proceeded to Hollyport, on the Windsor
road, and ascertained from a labouring man named
Critcher, that about a fortnight previous, while stand
ing near "the big elm,"
two tramps, a man and a woman,
passed by ; the woman appeared to be quarrelling with the
man, and as they went along the female exclaimed. "You
villain I you murdered that old woman." Critcher further
stated that Mr Wallis, a market gardener in the neigh-
bourhood, was present at the time, and could corrobo-
rate his statement, and en Mr Wallis being asked about
the affair it was found to be correct. Here, then, was
another link in the chain of evidence, but a greater surprise
awaited the superintendent, for on his return home in the
evening he received information to the effect that on the
day after the apprehension of Thomas Guest and William
Smith (,he two tramps new confined in Aylesbury Gaol) a
suit of clothes tied up in a bundle had been found in the
hedge bounding the adjoining field to that containing the
hay ricks or, Mr Creswell's farm, Great Marlow, where the
tramps had slept the night before they were taken by tLe
police. The men were ploughing at the time of the die-
cowry of the clothes, and as it was thought that they
might be full of vermin they were thrown on the land
and covered with the furrows. It will be remembered that
the rick and field had been searched by the police for the
stick, which was not to be found, and it seems strange that
such an important fact as the finding a suit of clothes close
to where the two men had slept was not communicated at
once to the superintendent. Such, however, was the case,
but no time was to be lost. Mr Creeswell, on being in-
formed of the importance attached to the obtaining these
clothes, at once consented to the field being searched, and
men were set at work to find them, and probably by this
time they may be in the hands of the police. In the mean-
time, a reward of £lOO has been offered by her Majesty's
Government to any person who will give such information
as will lead to the apprehension of the guilty parties, and
the Secretary of State will advise the grant of her Majesty's
pardon to any accomplice not the actual murderer,

The Mur

Marshes,

RE-EXAMINATION OF THE ACCUSED.
On Saturday the prisoner, Ferdinand Edward Karl Kohl,
was brought up before John Gurney Fry, Esq., and a full
bench of magistrates, when several witnesses were called
whose examinations had been previously taken,either at the
inquest or at Stratford police-court.
Joseph Gurstcn identified the deceased's boots, which were
muddy up to the ankles.
Inspector Goode, of the Thames police, who, with a man
named Jones, found the murdered man's head in a rat-
hole, added that when he saw the place where the head was
buried it looked as if it had been pressed down with the feet
to make it look the same as the rest.

Henry Z ulch said he had identified deceased's head before
the coroner, and on the day he was missing prisoner came
to his house about twelve or half-past, and told him ho had
been up to London with deceased and asked him to wait,
and when he came out of tho sugar_houss, where he went
for work, he was gone. Deceased slept at witness's house
after he left Mrs Warren's, but hed his meals at Kohl's.

Henry Lees, the witness who saw the accused and de-
ceased walking together on the day he was missed,along the
river bank near where the body was found, in answer to a
question by the prisoner, said he was positive it was the
deceased man he saw walking with Lim, and not the pri-
soner's cousin " Bill,"

Wm. Hudson also corroborated Lee's evidence as to seeing
deceased and prisoner between 10 and a quirter past 10 on
Thursday, the 3cl inst., walking along the river wall between
the Oil IN orks and where the body was found. They passed
him, deceased walking on the right side of the prisoner. He
knew them from seeing them twice in the mar.hes, where
he had been at work for the previous ten days. He particu•
laxly noticed them, because he heard them speaking in a
language he did not understand.
Mary Ann Wade, a lodger in Kohl's house, proved see-
ing Kohl and deceased go out together about half past 9 on
the Thursday morning. Kohl came home by himself about
one, and his clothes being all mud she said to him, "Good
gracious, Charley, whe►e have 3ou been to in the mud 2"
He made no reply, but went into the yard and brushed it
off. The back of his coat, his elbows, and his trousers were
.all in a mess with mud. He went out, and returned about
half-past three, when he said he was going to Germany. Did
not observe any particular difference in Kohl's appearance
till the evening, when ho looked pale, and his eyes sunk in
his head. When asked if he was going to Germany he said,
" Yes, and if John (deceased) was not home in two hours he
should break his boxes open." They had proposed to go

together, and Kohl's wife remarked, "If you wait two hours
you will be too late for the ship." She had Leen getting
ready to go all day. Was in the habit of lending Kohl her
chopper, and fetched it out of his kitchen on Friday morn-
ing, the 4th inst., and then she found that it had been
painted red at the upper end where the handle fits in.
The chopper was produced; it is a hammer and hatchet,
and a formidable weapon.
Eliza Whitmore said—l live at No 4, Hoy-Street, and
on Thursday, the 8d ins*., I saw 4te prisoner and the
young German go out together aboui half-past nine. Kohl
came home about one o'clock by himself.
The Chairman—Did you see him come in ?
Witness—No. I saw him brushing his coat in the garden,
He went out again shortly after one, and I went downstairs
and saw his wife, and said, " Kohl has missed John ; it is
very strange that should be, as you were all going to Ger-
many together," She said, " It is.", Kohl came:in a little
before three, and I asked him if he had found John, and he
said no. I asked him if he meant .o go to Germany if John
did not come back, and I said I thought he meant to give
him the slip, because he had no money, but Kohl said, " 0
yes he had, because I saw £1 lOs in his hand this morfaing ;
as we were going along he showed it to me." I asked him
again if he meant to go to Germany, and he said yes; and
if John is not back in two hours I will open his boxes." His
wife said if they waited so long the) would be too late.
Kohl took a small poker from the kitchen and went upstairs.
He said to some one come up and see. Kohl's wife's cousin

went up, and when he (the prisoner) came down again he
said "John will never come back, as all his thinks are
gone." Kuhl went out again, and did not come back again

11 five o'clock, and he then looked very bad.

Mr Superintendent Howie said that he did not propose
to offer any further evidence at present, and would there-
fore ask for a remand.

The prisoner, who did not seem to understand one-half of
the proceedings, but who questioned the witnesses with
some degree of shrewdness, was then removed, the inquiry
having lasted upwards of four hours.