The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-26 00:00:00

appeared to be a tall man with whiskers, but I only saw
him for a moment.
Mr Beard—Had he dark whiskers ?
Mr Leigh—Yes. I think so. (Muller has scarcely any
whiskers, and what he has are very light.)

Mr Beard—Describe the other man?
Mr Leigh—He was a slighter man with light whiskers.
Mr Beard—About what age ?
Mr Leigh—l cannot say.
In answer to a juryman, Mr Leigh said he could not
tell whether the man had dark or light whiskers, or
whether he had any whiskers at all, as he oaly saw
him fora moment.

Mr and Mrs Repsch were called and identified Muller
as the person they had referred to in their evidence.

The Coroner having finished the evidence, cautioned
Muller in the usual way, and asked him his name and age ?
He said his name was Franz Muller, and that ho was 24
years of ago.

The Coroner asked him whether be had anything to say
or any ques!ions to put to the witnesses who had been
examined ?

Muller—l have nothing to say now.
The Coroner said that under those circumstances th?pri-
Boner might ha removed from the euurt. He we.: then con-
veyed away in the prison van amidst loud yells from the
crowd.

When order had been restored,
The Coroner then commented upon the evidence,
tracing the deceased from the house at Peckham, whore he
had dined, until the time he was found on the railway.
Adverting to the medical evidence, he said it was clear that
sowe of the injuries from which Mr Briggs suffered were
caused by blows, while others were occasioned by the ft;l
from the carriage, With regard to two persons being in the
carriage with Mr Briggs when Mr Leigh saw him, he did
not attach much importance to it, as there was ample time
fo.z either of the persona to get out. He next commented
upon the discovery of the hat, the exchange of the chain,
&c., at Mr Death's, and the confirmatory eNi3ence which
was supplied on Muller's capture by the officers of jus.
tice. At the same time, they must remember
that Muller had a fortnight previously announced his
intention of going to America; but then, again, he had nit
sufficient money to pay his passage, which accounted for
his desire to possess it. Looking at all the circumstances,
ho thought the jury could not come to any other conclusion
than that Mr Briggs died from violence, and it would be
for them to say whether the evidence was sufficient to
connect any person with the murder, for it was either a
murder or nothing.
The jury retired, and, after an absence of 20 minutes,
returned and found—" That the deceased died from the
effects of great violence administered in a railway carriage
on the night of the 0,11 cf July last, and that Francis
Muller is the person by whom the murder wag
committed. The jury, while passing their verdict,
take this opportunity of expressing their disapprobation
at the present state of railway accommodation as affording
facilities for the perpetration of various crimes and offences,
and earnestly desire to call the attention of tho Home Go-
vernment to the subject, and to the necessity,of enforcing
the adoption by railway companies of some more efficient
system of protection to life, character, and property."
The Coroner then made out his warrantifor the committal
of Muller.