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external wounds and the wound above the left ear. The
whole of the upper portion of the temporal bone, which is
the thinnest part of the skull, was very much fractured and
depressed. On removing the upper portion of the skull we
found the brain healthy, but there was effusion of blood
both above and below it. There were no marks of violence
upon the body except the bruises upon the head, and the
chest and lungs were healthy. The cause of death was the
fractures of the skull producing compression of the brain.
The wounds on the scalp I believe to have been produced
by a blunt instrument, but the other injuries appeared to
be the result of a more general blow. I have no doubt
these combined injuries were the cause of death. The scalp
tumour was probably caused by the fall upon the stone.
Policeman Ed ward Dougan, 71 K, deposed—On the night
of the 9th inst., at about twenty minutes past ten o'clock,
being on duty in Wick-lane, Bow, I heard some one cry out
that there was a man upon the railway. I then observed
some people carrying a body down the line. I went with
them to the Mitford Castle, and found that the gentleman
was insensible, and that his head was very mach injured.
I sent for a surgeon. In order to ascertain who the gen-
tleman was, I searched his pockets. In his left-hand
trousers pocket I found a bunch of keys and four sove-
reigns, and in the right-hand pocket another bunch of keys
and 8s 6d in silver and copper money. In his waistcoat
pocket was a first-class return ticket, and in his coat pocket
I found his letters, papers, and a silver snuff-box. There
was a patent fastening attached to his waistcoat pocket
for a guard chain, and there was a diamond ring upon
his finger. There was no watch or chain upon him. His
shirt front was rumpled, and there was one black stud in
it.
Benjamin Ames, North London Railway Guard, reite-
rated his previous testimony as to the circumstances under
which the hat, stick, and bag were found in the carriage.
Mr Henry asked whether it was usual on that line to leave
the carriage doors on both sides unlocked.
The witness said it was. His attention was first called
to the state of the carriage by a gentleman who had entered
it at Hackney-wick, and witness saw blood upon the win-
dow and cushions on the near side, and upon the off• side
cushion a spot of blood and a piece of human flesh aboutthe
size of the top of the finger. The door on the off-side was
closed and fastened by the handle, and there were marks of
blood upon the handle outside. Witness searched the
carriage with his hand lamp and saw the hat produced all
smashed up under the seat in the corner. with a walking-
stick and black leather bag, both marked with blood. The
bag was looked and seemed to be empty. I telegraphed to
the stationmaster at Chalk-farm and locked up the carriage
so that no one should enter it.

Mr Henry—What space of time would bo occupied by
the passage of the train from Hackney-wick station, where
Mr Briggs was seen alive, to the spot where his body was
found ?

Witness—lt might be three minutes or two minutes and
a half.

Mr Henry—You had better have the ground measured in
order that the exact distance may be known.
The witness concluded his evidence by saying that he
knew Mr Briggs, but had not noticed him in the carriage
that night.
Mr Robt. Death, of 55, Cheapside, assistant to his brother
Mr John Death, deposed—At about 10 o'clock on Monday
morning, the 11th of July, a man of about 30 years of ago
came into the shop. He had a foreign accent, and wore no
beard, moustache, or whiskers. He was of a pale sallow
complexion, and I think rather fair. He took from his
pocket a chain, apparently not attached to his watch, and
asked me if I would let him have a new Albert chain for it
of about the same value. Notwithstanding his accent he
spoke English so plainly that I understood him perfectly.
He wanted to have a new chain without paying any money
with the old one, which was of the beat description of gold.
My brother then came in, weighed the old chain, and said
it was worth £3 10s, and a new bright Albert chain of the
same value was given him. The chain and the paper box in
which it was packed were precisely similar to those pro-
duced. The first chain shown to him was 5a more than the
estimated value of the old chain, but as he declined to pay
the excess a chain worth 108 loss was given to him, and he
consented to take a ring worth 5s to make up the sum.
Mr Thomas Jones Briggs, 5, Warwick-terrace, North,
Upper Clapton, waterproofer, said he knew the chain pro-
duced was the samewhich his father had had for about two
years, having been made a present to him by a friend. The
last time witness saw his father alive was on Thursday, the
7th July. On Sunday morning, July 10, he was sum-
moned to the Mitford Castle. When the deceased was
removed to his own house witness saw the patent guard
chain which was given to him at the same time with the
chain, attached to the waistcoat pocket. He identified the
chain, and especially the old-fashioned key and the seal with
a piece chipped out of the stone, which had been particu-
larly noticed by his sister. He also recognised the walking
stick as that of his father's.

Elizabeth Sarah Repsch deposed—l am the wife of God-
frey Ferdinand Repsch, :tailor, of 121, Jewry-sr,reet, Ald-
gate. My parents are German, but I was born in England,
I have known Franz Muller, a German tailor, about two
years. He used to work with a friend of my husband's, and
he then took a workroom of his own but continued to come
to see us. It was my husband who got him his situation at
Mr. Hodgkinson's, and when ho left that he worked for us
about a fortnight. The last time I saw him was on the
morning of Thursday, the 14th July, the day he sailed. He
told us he was going in the ship Victoria, from the London
Dock, to New York. On the previous Saturday, the 9th
instant, I had seen him at my house, where I left him at
about half-past seven o'clock at night, talking to his friend
John Hoffa. He had not told me he was going anywhere.
When I came back, at half past eight, Ho& was still there
at work, but Muller was gone. I did not see Muller at all on
the Sunday, but he called on Monday between 10 and 11
o'clock, and seated himself on the shopboard beside my hus-
band. He then took out of his pocket the gold Albert guard
now produced, and said he paid £3 15s for it, and he showed
us a ring on his finger, with a white stone and a peculiarly
shaped head upon it, and told us he had bought it for 7s 6d.
When he left he had the ring upon his finger. He told us
that he bought the chain and ring of a man at the docks
whom he met when he was going down to take his passage
ticket, and he thought it was a good bargain, I joked him
about it and said it was not worth the money, upon which
he took up the shears and scraped the chain to show me the
way of testing it. He said, " You see it is pure gold." I
observed that the hat he was wearing was quite new, and I
said to him, " How extravagant you are with your hats."
He said he had smashed his old one in getting out of an
omnibus to oblige a lady. No, that is wrong ; I was think-
ing of another affair- He said he had smashed his old one
and thrown it into the dusthole. I had particularly noticed
bis old hat, because it had a striped lining, unlike any other
hat I had ever seen, and I am quite certain the hat now
produced is the same. I do not know how it is, but I have
always taken particular notice of the hats worn by the
young men who come to our house. I have never seen
Muller since the morning of July 14.
John Hoffa, a tailor, living at 16, Park-terrace, Old
Ford-road, Bethnal-green, deposed—l know Franz Muller,
and have worked for two years at Mr Hodgkinson's, where
he also worked. For the last three nights before he sailed
I lodged in the same house with him. He was living there
before me. I formerly lodged with Mrs Repsch, and still
go there sometimes to see them. On Saturday I was with
Muller at Repsch's house, at about seven o'clock in the
evening, and when he left he said he was going to see his
girl—his sweetheart. I saw him next at dinner time on the
Monday following, at Mr Repsch's. 1 had paid no atten-
tion to his hat, and I could not say whether he had a new
one. Muller slept with me on the Monday, Tuesday, and
Wednesday nights. I bought a pawnbroker's duplicate
of him on the Wednesday. He said it was the ticket for
the chain which I had seen him with on Monday, and which
he had pawned for £1 10s. He wanted 12s for the ticket, as
he bad not enough to pay for his passage to America. I
borrowed the 12s and gave him, but I did not take the chain
out of pawn. It was pledged at 21, in the Minories• He left
me in bed at six o'clock on Thursday morning, and said
" Good bye," as he was going to his ship.
Charles Young, assistant to Mr Annie, pawnbroker, of 21,
Minories, produced the Albert chain, which was pledged on
Tuesday, the 52th inst., at about two o'clock, by a man
whose appearance he could not recollect. It did not strike
him he was a foreigner, as he spoke such good English. He
gave the name, John Muller, 22, Jewry-street. I cannot
say if he was tall or fair. I might know him again.
Ellen Blyth, wife of George Blyth, a messenger, 16, Park-
terrace, Old Ford-road, examined—We let lodgings to one
or two single men, and Franz Muller had lodged with us for
about seven or eight weeks previous to his sailing for
America. I had never taken any particular notice of his
hat, and cannot therefore identify the one produced, We
waited up for Muller till 11 o'clock on the Saturday night,
but he had not returned at that time, and we went to bed.
Muller had a latch key, and ho lot himself in afterwards,
but I did not hear the door, I saw him the next (Sunday)
morning when he came down to breakfast with uses usual.
I did not notice anything unusual in his manner. He ap-
peared to be a little lame from a sprain of the uncle, which
he had spoken of on the Friday. Ho said ho had got his
foot between a bus and a kerbstone in crossing the road near
London-bridge. He remained at home all Sunday, and went
out with us in the evening. Until lately Muller was always
home early in the evening, generally by S or 9 o'clock, but
latterly he kept later hours.
Inspector Tiddy, in reference to the sleeve lining found
in the grate of the room which Muller occupied, said it was
a rag which he usually rubbed his boots with. There was
blood on one end of it.
It appears that the cabman's wife, Mrs Matthews, re-
marked that Muller, being dissatisfied with the flat brim of
his hat, which Matthews purchased for him, had turned up
the sides in the fashion worn by foreigners, and this is pre-
' eieely the appearance which the hat now presents, the alte-
ration izwina been evidently made by a person =lcons-