The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-22 00:00:00

THE MURDER OF MR. BRIGGS.

It has been decided that the prisoner Muller shall be pre-
sent on Monday morning next, at the adjourned coroner's
inqUest. Mr Humphreys forwarded an application to Sir
George Grey, to the effect that it was desirable Muller
should be brought up before the jury, in order that his iden-
tity might be established to their satisfaction. This applis
cation being remitted to Sir Richard Mayne, the Chief
Commissioner, after consulting the detective inspectors who
have charge of the case, reported his approval of the recom-
mendation to Sir G. Grey, whoissued the necessary older.
The prisoner will be taken.. direct from the Town Hall,
Hackney, where the inquest is sitting, to the Bew-street
Police-court, where the magisterial examination will be re-
sumed. After his examination at Bow-strett on Monday
last, when removed to the cell, Muller inveighed bitterly
against the evidence which had been given by Matthews
respecting the hat which was found in the railway carriage.
The prisoner stigmatised the evidence given about this hat
as false, saying there was not one word of truth in it; that
Matthews knew he (Muller) had worn out the hat bought
for him at Walker's long ago, and that the rim on one side
was broken ; that the evidence had been given out of spite
because ho (Muller) had threatened to give a relation of
Matthews's into custody for theft some time ago, Concern-
ing the identification of the hat found in Muller's trunk on
board the Victoria, and which is supposed to have belonged
to the murdered gentleman, some further evidence is likely
to be forthcoming. One of the shopmen of Mr Digance,
the hatter, has, it appears, a distinct remembrance of
selling the hat to Mr Briggs, who, at the time, because
it did not fit him, had a peculiar alteration made in the
lining, which the shopman can identify. It was, more•
over, a practice in the shop to mark on the inner side of
the leath,!r lining the date when the article was pur-
chased, which may afford an additional clue. The follow-
ing is a copy of the letter which was handed to Muller in
New York by an agent of the " Society for the Legal Pro-
tection of Garnet* in London :"
New York, Aug., 1864.
for the
Mr Francis Muller, on board the Victoria-1 have been
instructed by the Ilan. Secretary of the Society
Legal Protection of Germans inLendon, to conirunnicato to
ynat that the said society hsvo taken your case into their
hands, and have appointed Mr Thomas Beard, solicitor, of
No. 19, Basinghall-street, in London, to oaten iyour behalt,
You may address yourself, as soon as y ive in Eng.
Cannon-street, London,
land, to the President of the above-named society, Mr M.
D. Luker, of No. 2, Tower Royal,
E.C. In the meantime, it may be advisable for you not to
make any communication whateve
ious r to the
.dvice authorities or to
private individuals, without prev a of a solicitor.
Up to lay latest adviees from London, the German Society
still consider you to be innocent of the chime you are ac-
cused of, and have resolved, in caso no tui ther advices
should alter their opinion, to Ktv4i n.-) I rouble or expense to
prove your being not guilty, it this is the case.
A Dar. GANS,