The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-20 00:00:00

FURTHER PARTICULARS.

On Monday morning a cabman named Jonathan Mat-
thews was taken to the Harrow-street Station, where he
made the following communication :—" I live at No. CS,
Earl-street, Lisson-grove, and am a cabman. Last night,
and for the first time, I saw a placard in the Edgware-road
having reference to a murder committed on the North
London Railway. I communicated certain information to a
Waterman named Amos."

The following is the communication made by the cabman
before Mr Henry, the chief magistrate at Bow-street, yes-
terday afternoon :

4,lknow Franz Muller. He is a native of Cologne. Hie
age, as he told me, is 25, and for some time past he has been
employed as a shirt cutter in the firm of Hodgkinson,
hosiers, of Threadneedle-street, in the city. Seven or eight
months ago he commenced to keep company with my sister,
and as her suitor he was in the habit of coming to my house.
1 remember one Sunday in October or November last he
came to my house and said to me, ' You have got a nice hat,
where did you get it from?' I told him I had bought it from
a man named Walker, a hatter, in Crawford-street. Muller
said,' Well, I should like to have one like it.' I said, Well,
try this on,' and he did so, but found it too tight for his head.
I then said, ' I know your size now, and I will get ono for
you.' I did so, and the following Sunday he came and took
it away. Some time afterwards he came to my house again,
when I said,' How well that hat wears ; I have had three
hats since then.' I laid hold of the hat, and noticed on the
inside brim a peculiar thumbmark, caused`by the hat being
put on and taken off by the hand at one particular spot.
The hat produced (the one found in the railway carriage)
is the same, and I could swear to it. Last Monday week
Muller visited my house and saw my wife. After paying
her the usual compliments he took a box out of his pocket
and pulled out of it a gold chain, which he said he had paid
£3 10s. for that morning. He then fixed the chain on a
watch and gave the box to my child to play with. (The bog
b
wes produced, and identified by Mr Deatb, who ras
Muller
pre-
sent, as the one which he had placed the chain in.
then exhibited a ring which ho hdad on
n his finger, and which
been was similar to the one described by Mr Death. Muller then
began to complain, say
very
havingunfortunate
;
rro morning until I
come, for I particularly want s©e him/ For two or three,w
he had been down to the city, and a cart passed
hehab
near his foot he had sprained his ankle. He then said,
' I am going to Canada ; be sure you see Jonathan (mean-
ingo
me), tell him not to go out to.mo
mornings I waited for biro, but he never came, and I have
never seen him sine •
yesterday I communicated the
above facts to Inspector Steer, of the D division, and I
handed over to him the box'produced."
The other evidence adduced went to show that Inspector
Steer gave this information at Scotland-yard, and the Com-
missioners of Police immediately instructed Superintendent
Tiddy and Inspector Steer to thoroughly investigate the
matter. These two officers at once went to No. 16, Park-
terrace, Old Ford, Bow, a house kept by a man named
Blyth, who said ho was in bed on the night of the day the
murder was committed when Muller came home.
The officers next interrogated a lodger in the house
named Goodwin, a German, who said that on the night
mentioned Muller came home about 11 o'clock, and ap-
peared very much confused, which he accounted for by say-
ing he had met with a severe injury in the city and had
sprained his ankle. The lodger produced a pawn-ticket,
which he said he had bought of Muller. The ticket related
to the gold chain Muller received from Mr Death, and
which Muller had pledged in a pawnshop in Bow.
Mr Adams, the American Minister, was present during
the whole of the examination, and at his request a copy of
the depositions was prepared to be forwarded to the Home
Executive in America.

It further transpired in the examination that Muller
sailed from the London Docks on Thursday afternoon last
in the sailing vessel Victoria, bound for New York.
Last night at 9 o'clock Mr Inspector Tanner, Mr Death,
and the cabman started from Euston-square for Liverpool,
cn route for New York by to-day's American mail. The
inspector was furnished with a warrant granted by Mr
Henry for the apprehension of Mu her on the charge of
murder, and he also carried with him letters from Mr Adams
to the Executive at Now York,