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death, and the execution is to take place in Warsaw
or Wilna. All accusations in regard to torture are,
of course, met by them with a fiat denial and a re-
quest for proof, when it is evident that no proof can
be given, for to mention the name of a trustworthy
informant on such:a subject would bs to point out
him or her for immediate arrest. As prisoners are
not allowed to talk freely with their friends, and
are often not permitted to see them at all—never
except in presence of an official—it does really
appear difficult to know positively whether or
not they are beaten (as the Poles believe to be
often the case) with the view of extorting con-
fession. Under the Emperor Nicholas there was no
mystery on the subject, nor is there now in Lithu-
ania, under the infamous Mouravieff. It is cer-
tain also—there are proofs of the fact—that two
gentlemen, named Rawics and Oborski, who
Poland
lately arrested at Siedlee, in the kingdom of r
(in which district important discoveries are said to
have been made as to the organisation of the local
National Government) were violently beaten. M.
Oborski has since become insane, and if in his pre-
sent state ho should speak of the torture inflicted
upon him the Russians will be able to say that he
is raving. It is seldom that a man likely to have
been beaten comes out of prison at all, unless to go
to Siberia. But some have contrived to communi-
cate with their friends ; others have at last been
liberated or have escaped ; as to others, again, the
condition of their backs has been known from the
state of their linen when sent out to be washed.
Torture by beating has been too long the custom in
Russia to be suddenly discontinned by subordinates
even if their superiors so ordered it.
In the country, too, throughout Poland, persons
are habitually beaten who refuse, or are unable, to
, give information as to the position of insurgent
bands, which it is taken for granted they must have
L seen. A German doaler in furs, who lately arrived
in Warsaw by the high road from Moscow, com-
plains publicly of having been treated in this fashion
by Cossacks. An officer to whom he appealed for
redress, offered, it is true, to punish the Cossacks
who had committed the offence if they could be
pointed out, but without taking any steps to disco-
ver them himself.

that by far the greater part of the detachment com-
manded by Waligorski—though not all, as the
Russians allege—was driven back into Galicia after
the first encounter. Out of Czachowski's band,
Czachowski himself, with some 300 cavalry, still
remains in the mountains of St. Cross—the natural
fortress where this chief maintained his position for
so many months after the defeat of Langiewicz, and
the break-up of his army, in which Czachowski
held a command. The old habitué of the St. Cross
mountains (it is fortunate for the Russians that
there are not two such strongholds in all the king-
fid or
smt )0
fa ph pi
se
twoar s troo
ehoatv
oe
gbeaten
otoht es Re
Inns s
ti ahne ss
ei no tnhd,
according to the Russian official accounts, he had
as many as seventeen companies of infantry opposed
to him, besides cavalry of the line and Cossacks ;
and the Russians admit having lost eighty men,
which is about forty times the loss usually ac-
knowledged by them.
It is a remarkable sign that the insurrection has
broken out again in several places in the kingdom,
where it was believed to have been put an end to
altogether. A band of insurgents, composed in a
great measure of workmen from Warsaw, made its
appearance two days ago at Piaseczno, some twelve
or fifteen miles from the capital, and had a skirmish
with the Russians. It may be remembered that it
was near Piaseczno that Baron Dangiel was killed
about a month ago, as he was engaged in the appa-
rently harmless occupation of planting potatoes.
The Journal de St. Petersbourg has since explained
that though Baron Dangiel was really planting
potatoes when the Russians entered his garden,
and though he was really killed, yet he was not, as
I stated, " cat to pieces" with sabres, but pierced by
some sort of gun shot. The alleged error on my
part in narrating the incident—which I pointed
to simply in illustration of the remarkable uncer-
tainly of human existence in and near Warsaw—
is made the pretext for some grave reflections on
the inaccuracy of correspondents writing from
Poland, and on the shameful charge of " cold
cruelty" brought by them against the Russians;
though in this instance there was no question of
" cold cruelty" at all, but of sudden and shameful
attack upon an unarmed man who was unfortunate
enough to find himself in the vicinity of armed
combatants. Anxious to imitate, and if possible
surpass, the exactitude of the Journal de St. Peters •
bourg, I have once more obtained full and authentic
particulars respecting this first affair at or near
Piaseczno, and I find not only that the Baron was
" cut to pieces" (which does not, as the Journal de
St. Petersbourg chooses to imagine, mean that he
was severed into little bits), but also that on the same
evening, on the high road to Radam and near
Piasecnzo, a Crown ,lawyer named Klosowski was
killed by Cossacks as ho was travelling towards his
estate, unarmed, in ordinary dress, and in a hired
droachka. The Journal de St. Petersbourg may try
to show that M, Klosowski was killed not by Cos-
sacks, but by infantry. In any case his friends know
that he is dead,and that he was murdered by Russian
soldiers under the circumstances above-mentioned.

As to the flogging of women, it is known that the
Grand Duke Constantine, on his arrival in Poland,
positively forbad it, and it is to be hoped that the
veto will be maintained by General Berg, hitherto
only the Grand Duke's substitute, but who, it is
said, will soon be formally appointed his successor
in the office of Namiestnik. Nevertheless, three
young ladies were arrested here the other day (the
daughters of a rich brewer named Klave), and the
youngest of them, a girl of twelve, whipped, in
order to make her tell the names of the visitors at
her father's house, the ordinary subjects of their
conversation, and so on. Who is immediately re-
sponsible for this barbarous act I cannot say ; but
the poor child was whipped.
Besides the prelate Bialobrzoski and the canons
Stecki and Wysychi, I should have mentioned in
one of my last letters that another eminent person-
age, Hiszpanski, the celebrated Siberian bootmaker,
had been arrested. The Rabbin Meisels is not, as has
been reported, in prison, but has taken a hurried de-
parture for foreign parts. The prelate Bialobrzoski,
it may be remembered, after being sentenced to
death for having closed the Warsaw churches, had
his punishment commuted to exile, whence, together
with all the persons above-named, he was recalled
by the Grand Duke. A returned political exile is
probably looked upon by the Russian Government
vary much as a ticket•of-leave man is regarded by
us. At all events, some dozen Siberian Poles have
been seized during the last week or two, perhaps
simply from a not unreasonable idea that having
once been in Siberia they cannot feel well disposed
towards Russia. Among those known to have been
exiled to Siberia during the past week is M. Kru-
pecki, of the Zamoyski house. Count Stanislaus
Zamoyski is still in prison, and the Russian journals
continue to attack him, though he has not yet been
tried, as if it were really known that he had com-
mitted some offence.

As to charges of cruelty, what have the Russians
to say to the following evidence on the subject,
which I find, not in any Polish organ, not in any
private letter from a Pole, but in an advertisement
published in a recent number of the Warsaw Official
Journal? By this advertisement, numbered 4,721,
dated September 23, 1863, Spniec, near Kalisz, the
Court of Correctional Police of the Kalisz depart-
ment requires information as to three men killed by.
the troops on the 12th of July, near the village of
Led, in the district of Pyzery. Here follows a de-
scription of the three bodies, which were found
stripped
One had received three cuts in the head and a
fourth in the neck, 11 wounds on the chest, at the
back, and under both arms, and bore several blue
marks resulting from blows.
Another had had the left side of his face cut by
eight wounds in different directions, and had nine
other wounds on his back, his right side, and on
both shoulders; total, 17 wounds, of which he died
the next day.
The third had received three wounds in the head,
and 14 bayonet wounds in the chest and arms !

M. Wenglinaki, formerly a member of the Come.
cil of State, one of the most influential men among
the moderate party, and one of the greatest oppo.
nents of the insurrection, when the insurrection was
first meditated, was arrested a few nights ago—no
one can possibly,imagine why. An unintelligible
domiciliary visit has also been paid to M. Mianowski,
the rector of the University. M. Mianowski was
formerly physician to the Duke de Leuchtenberg;
he spent a great portion of his life at St. Peters-
burg., and is thought by his own countrymen to be
a very unlikely man to be mixed up in any sort of
insurrectionary movement.
Of Mieroslawski, " the great militarist who has
all the theory of war in the knot of his sword," we
have no news; but we know already the best and
the worst that the Mieroslawski men can do in
Poland. They are now, and have been for some
weeks past, on their trial, and we do not find much
change in the manner of conducting the general
affairs of the Polish insurrection, neither more
energy in the war department, nor much more un-
scrupulousness in the department of public crimes.
The attack on General Berg, and the burning of
the Town-hall, may be Mieroslavian acts, but the
entry of the well-armed, and tolerably well-orga-
nised, detachments of Czschowski and Waligorski
from Galicia had been arranged long before Miero-
slawski had anything to do with the National
Government. I remember the recruiting for these
detachments some months since, and just outside a
certain town in Galicia saw the recruiting agents
with their portable desks and perambulating secre-
taries, first in one field and then in another, dogged
from day to day by the police, but doing their work
very regularly and constantly adding to the num-
ber inscribed on their rolls. I suppose the Russians
will at least admit that the men engaged in this
manner were not driven into the insurrection by
force. To pretend that terrorism on the part of the
National Government keeps up the insurrection in
the kingdom is absurd enough! to maintain that
any system of terrorism can compel men to join the
insurgent bands entering in the face of all sorts of
obstacles from Galicia is worse than ridiculous.
It is also an error to assert that the bands which
recently passed from Galicia into the Kingdom
were composed, to any considerable extent, of
foreigners, or that this latest expedition was, more
than any previous one, the work of that bugbear of
bad Governments known as " the cosmopolite revo-
lution." The Russian authorities know nothing, as
yet, about that part of the matter. I know that
between the villages about Tarnow and the Carpa-
thian mountains I saw upwards of 100 insurgents
destined for the expedition in question, and among
them could only find eight or ten foreigners, for the
most part Garibaldians, who complained that the
Polish insurrection was not nearly so great an affair
as they had expected, and who already (at the end
of August) were tired of waiting to be let into the
"smY's country. The half hundred Hungarians
Who joined the Polish insurrection had, for the most
pert,
pitih,a_dne_nough of it after Lalewell's last cam-
thusiasatiediztehnose Hungarians who did join were
certainty not
revolutionists, but simply brave, en-
actions that , 'who were willing to testify by
jests of everyYemounathy for the Poles which the sub-
have manifested ntional Government in Europe
y ;
Otheegatlians of
said to have been Hungarians
in words. Some few are
rs
their own county
to the best class of good position in
students at
to have belonged
and gymnasiums. Ima
addat Hungarian colleges
that all the French-
men I have seen in the Polish detachments (there
were very few in these last) Were
ardent republi-
cans, though it is known that few Frenchmen
Poland
eS have for
royalist and ultramontane principles have
of
a time, been fighting on the side of the poles. also,„he
the Russian Government towards
is detested in all civilised countries, and if =duet of
I this de-
testation constitutes cosmopolite revolutionie
tn, then
the "cosmopolite revolution ' no doubt e •
Xists in
Europe, and is a stiop M
r ee before which, sooner
or later, and in some iorm or other, Russia will have
to bend.
It is probably now understood that the entries
from Galicia have no importance except as demon-
strating that the armed insurrection still exists,
and that it may continue to exist for some consider-
Able time longer—in fact, until the Russians can
contrive to render such entries impossible. As to
the fate of the last expedition, I believe it is trte,

The Central Executive Relief Committee.

The weekly meeting of the Central Executive Committee
was held on Monday in the Town Hall, Manchester ; Sir
J. P. Kay.Shuttleworth, Bart., in the chair. There were
also present Lord Egerton, Col. Wilson Patten, M.P,,
Major Egerton Leigh, Messrs. H. B. Farnall, W. Rath-
bone, jun., M. Ross, S. J. Stern, R. M'Clure, W. Roberts,
R. Gladstone, A. H. Heywood, and J. W. Maclure hono-
rary secretary. Mr. Rawlinson was also in attendance.
The HONORARY SECRETARY reported that £668 18s ld
had been received during the past week, and that the ba-
lance in the bank was £260,875 17s Bd. Four packages of
clothing had been received, and one crate of hats, one bag
of sugar, and six barrels of flour had been sent off.

The CHAIRMAN announced that he had that morning
received from the Lambeth Relief Committee a cheque for
£145 5s 81d, the balance of their fund.
Mr. FARNALL presented the following report :—" T beg
to inform you that on the 31st ult, there was a decrease
in the number of persons receiving parochial relief in 27
unions in the cotton manufacturing districts, as compared
with the number so relieved in the previous week, of 1,552,
This decrease of 1,552 is explained as follows : There
is a decrease at Ashton-under-Lyne of 879, at Barton-
upon-Irwell of 7, at Bolton of 14, at Bury of 37, at
Chorley of 30, at Clitheroe of 4, at Glossop of 18, at
Haslingdeu of 108, at Leigh of 38, at Macclesfield of 10, at
Manchester of 106, at Oldham of 712, at Preston of 60, at
Rochdale of 101, at Saddleworth of 39, at Warrington of
30, and at Wigan of 89—making a total decrease of 2,282,
But theta is an increase at Blackburn of 43, at Burnley of
162, at Chorlton of 168, at the Fy,de of 80, at Garstang of
5, at Lancaster of 12, at Prestwich of 86, at Salford of 59,
and at Stockport of 115—making a total increase of 730.
So that there is a net decrease of 1,552, and, since the
6th of December last, a total decrease of 144,026 has
taken place. There were, on the 31st ult., 127,9 57 per-
sons receiving parochial relief in the 27 unions adverted
to ; in the corresponding week of 1861, 48,426 persons
were so relieved. There is, therefore, an increase of
79,531 persons in the receipt of parochial relief, or 161.3
per cent. In the corresponding week of 1862, 224,712 per-
sons received parochial relief. But, independently of the
127,957 receiving parochial relief, there are, according to
Mr. Maclure's report, 50,352 persons who are maintained
by local committees of charity only, making a total of
178,309 persons, or 9.0 per cent. on the population, who
are supported either out of the poor rates or through the
medium of charity. The total weekly cost of outdoor relief
on the 31st ult. was £7,934 4s 9d ; in the corresponding
week of 1861 it was £2,398 6s. There is, therefore, an
increase of £5,535 18s 9d or 23P3 per cent. In the
corresponding week of 1862 it was £14,411 5s 4d.
The average per tentage of pauperism on the population of
these unions, on the 31st ult., was 6.4; in the correspond-
ing week of 1861 it was 2.4, and in the corresponding week
of 1862 it was 11.3. The amount of money in the hands of
the treasurers of the above unions, on the 31st ult., was
£73)372 lls

In compliance with the wish of the Committee, Mr. RLW-
LixsoN made the following statement respecting the opera-
tion of the Public Works Act. He said' 40 places in the
cotton manufacturing districts had adopted the Local
Government Act, 1858, or some of its clauses, since
Christmas, as also the Public Works Act, 1863. Many
other places were taking the necessary means to adopt
these acts; so that with few exceptions, the whole of the
distressed district would come voluntarily under their ope-
ration. He had, by himself or by his assistant, Mr. R. A.
Arnold, inspected and reported on works in some 42 towns
and districts, the total amount reported on being £616,245.
The work of examination and reporting was in progress.
Notices had reached him as to intended applications for
sanctions reaching to about £BOO,OOO additional, or in the
whole to £1,416,245; and there were applications from
other small districts to come in. The whole of the dtstressed
towns would be improved under the powers of the act of
1863. Public parks would be established—miles of streets
would be severed and paved—and other forms of sanitary
weeks executed. No work was made specially for the occa-
sion, but the whole was work actually necessary, and in all
cases was devised and set out by the local authorities, and
conducted entirely under local inspection and management.
The value of the works to the several districts would, in his
opinion, be far more than the money cost. Property was
increased in commercial value by proper sanitary works,
such as efficient sewers, good roads, and paved Btreet3. ,The
men employed in all cases worked well and willingly.
Major LEIGII inquired whether these works were being
executed on contract, and if so, whether the contractors
employed cotton operatives ?
Mr. ItAweiNsorr replied that some were upon contract,
and others under local superintendents. It was quite im-
practicable in all cases to set out works which would allow
of the employment of cotton operatives solely. In a large
proportion of the work not more than one-third of unskilled
as compared with skilled, labour could be em
in every place his
give
prr,e,fcommendation to the local
had had:been to authorities
wojimr7vee to the class of Works in the first
instance which
give
labourers
eabocueurcpration t
Bible number of unskill the largest pos-
ready assent had everywhezeov----8 and he believed that a
Lord EGERTON ask,„eongiven to the suggestion.
...en if in giving out contracts any ea.

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NO 11, 1863.

pulation was made that the contractors should use the
utmost amount of unskilled labour that the works would
admit of ?

Mr. RAWLINSON said such a stipulation was made.
On the motion of Colonel PATTEN, seconded by Mr.
FARNALL, it was resolved :—" That the various local com-
mittees be informed that the Central Executive Relief Com-
mittee is prepared to take into consideration applications for
clothing for cotton operatives employed in public works,
carried on under the provisions of the Public Works Act
of the last session of Parliament. That the local commit-
tees in every such application specify the number of un-
skilled cotton operatives so employed on outdoor work for
whom suitable working clothes are required."

THE RECENT MURDERS.

Suicide of the Murderer,

The inquiries set on foot by the detective police on the
Surrey side of the Thames have led to the discovery of the
murderer of the woman and two children who were found
dead in a cab on Saturday evening last. The murderer, how-
ever, took poison as soon as he found the police had dis-
covered him, and died from its effects at the Camberwell-
green Police-station shortly after his apprehension.
In consequence of the description published on Monday
morning of the three murdered persons, as well as of the
man who rode in the cab with them, and who was supposed
to be their murderer, the suspicions of a letter carrier named
Prescott were aroused as to a person named Hunt, residing
at Camberwell. He knew that Hunt's family led a most un-
happy life, and that ho had threatened to do fer his wife
and children. He had seen Hunt go in and out of his
house on Sunday, but had seen nothing of his wife and
children. On Monday evening, therefore, he went to the
police-station near Camberwell-green and told the inspector
whom he found on duty what he thought of the matter.
Acting on this information, Inspectors Meloy and Smith
proceeded, about 20 minutes to 10 on Monday night, to the
house indicated by Prescott, which is situated in Welling-
ton-road, Coldharbour-lane, Camberwell. They knocked at
the door. All was quiet, and no light was to be seen in the
house. No answer being returned to their summons they
knocked again and again, but without obtaining any reply.
While thus engaged Inspector Dann arrived at the spot,
having received similar information from another source.
The knocking was again repeated, when Inspector Meloy
fancied he heard something moving in the house. They
then commened a vigorous kicking at the door, which after
some delay was opened on the chain. A man then asked
the inspectors who they were and what they wanted, when
Inspector Smith said they belonged to the police, and de-
manded admittance. The chain was then withdrawn, and
they entered the house. The man then said, " Wait a
minute; wait a minute; I'll get a light;" and made a rush
towards the stairs. They prevented his reaching them, In-
spector Smith replying, "Never mind, we've got a light."
They then all went up into a bedroom on the first floor,
when the man commenced retching, a circumstance which
aroused the suspicion of the inspectors, and induced Meloy
to question him as to whether he had not taken poison, to
which he replied, "No, I have not; my heart is affected."
He then asked them what they wanted, and Inspector Smith
asked him if his wife and family were at home. He said,
" No, they are all in the country ; they have gone to South-
ampton." When asked the date of their departure he re-
plied that they went away on Friday night last. Inspector
Meloy said, " Have you not made a mistake, was it not on
Saturday night ?" The man replied " No; I am positive it
was Friday night." At intervals dvring this conversation
the man retched violently. Ho wasthen asked as to his family
and he said he had two children, both girls, one eight and the
other four years of age. Inspector Smith asked him to de-
scribe the children, which he did, and his description tallied
exactly with that of the children found in the cab. He also
stated the age of his wife to be 27. Inspector Dann said to
him, " Have you read the account of the murder in the
papers ?" To which he replied. "I have read the account
of the murder ;" and immediately added rather sharply,
" But you don't suppose it's my family, do you ?" Inspector
Meloy asked the man how his wife and family were dressed,
to which he replied by asking how the deceased were dressed.
Meloy said they were dressed in black. On which he said,
"They cannot be mine, for mine were all light dressed,"
and added, "She has gone on a visit to her uncle, Mr.
Campbell, who lives at 29, Harmwood-street, Southampton.
Inspector Dann then requested him to go with them to the
police-station to hear the description of the deceased woman
and children read. He expressed his willingness to do so,and
then asked Inspector Meloy if he would take charge of £lO
in Bank of England notes, a request which he declined to
comply with. He then accompanied them to the station, and
on the way said, " My wife and myself have lived very un-
happily, and she was always very jealous, and, oh ! she led
me a dreadful life, always accusing me wrongfully, and talk-
ing to that extent that I have frequently been obliged to
leave my bed and walk the streets. The children have told
me something which has aroused my suspicions of her.
They went out one day, and when they returned they said
they had met a gentleman who had taken them all in a cab,
and that he was kind, like me, and looked like me, only that
he had a moustache. I did not like this." When offering the
bank .notes to Mr Meloy, he said " I want you to take charge
of these to give to my wife and children if they are alive."
He afterwards said, " She used to drink, and her bottles
were always about the house; what I drank this evening was
a part of what she left behind in a bottle." Inspector Meloy
asked him if he knew what it was that he had drunk, and
he replied, "I have no doubt but that it was gin."
During the whole of the conversation at the house, and
on the way to the station, the man continued to retch and
vomit so violently that on arriving Mr. Puckle, surgeon, of
Coldharbour-lane, was immediately sent for. He at once
said that the man had taken poison, and, after much resist-
ance succeeded in forcing a strong emetic down his throat.
Mr. Massey, of Camberwell-green, shortly after arrived,

and Dr. Maule Sutton, a physician, late of the Queen's
Hospital, Birmingham, who was passing, also rendered his
assistance. Previous to the arrival of the medical men the
prisoner, being weak from excessive vomiting, sat down
while the description of the deceased woman and children
was read over to him, on hearing which he exclaimed seve-
ral times " That is them," as the inspector proceeded in
reading the account. He was then asked if his wife had a
sore foot, and he said "Yes." Meloy then asked "Does she
use ointment ?" to which he replied "Yes, I have applied it
to the acre myself." The vomiting continuing to increase,
he said he thought he was dying, and asked to be allowed to
lie down. This was complied with, and the medical gentle-
men then questioned him as to what he had taken. He re-
plied, "I think it was B,,mething in the glass which was
not spirits." He continued, " I know what my wife died of
now—it is prussic acid, and it was in the house. I might
have taken aconite—l think I did." After this he confi-
rm& retching for nearly an hour, when he again referred to
his wife, and said her uncle had given them £5O, which
enabled him to live without drawing his salary, and ho had
not touched it for the last 18 months. Just previous to his
deathhe seemed to sleep, and suddenly awoke, when he said

—" I have had the most beautiful dreams. I want to write.
lam dying, and before I die I want to write." Writing
materials having been supplied, he was just able t) write as
follows, but he could not sign the note :
" Mr. John M'Culloch—Pay to my wife the money due
to me—namely, £l2O, due the 17th of September last, and
the remainder due to me."

He then said, " My employer owes me 18 months' salary.
Wo have had a good many rows about that, and I wish to
leave it to my children if they are alive." Shortly after this
he died.

The body was removed about half-past 12 to the house 0

the deceased, when it was ascertained that his name was
Hunt, and that for some time past he had held the situation
of traveller to Messrs. Butler and M'Culloch, Beadsmen,
herbalists, and druggists, Covent-garden. The body was
then again examined by Dr. Sutton as to the cause of death,
but he could find no signs of prussic acid. The expression
of the countenance was calm, although he had died from
exhaustion brought on from excessive retching and struggled
violently just before his death. On searching the body they
found his linen marked S. H. Hunt. He was well dressed
in a suit of mourning. The body was taken to the house
in Wellington-road, where it awaits the coroner's inquest.
After his death he was identified by the cabman Parker
as the man whom he had driven from the Great Eastern
Railway to Furnival's;lnn. Another cabman, named Peirce,
also identified him as the man whom he had driven from
Camberwell to Shoreditch station. It seems that on Satur-
day evening about 7 o'clock the second cabman was on his
stand at Camberwell-green when he was hailed by a lady in
black with two little girls. She told him to drive to Shore-
ditch station, and to take the check-string in his hand, as
she would have to stop him on the road. When they had
proceeded about 200 or 300 yards down Camberwell-road a
man, who afterwards turned out to be the deceased, hailed
him, but the cabman said he was engaged. The man, how-
ever, said he had friends in the cab whom he wanted to join,
In his capacity of traveller for Messrs. Butler and
M'Culloch, Hunt seems to have obtained a knowledge of
herbs and chemistry, He had fitted up a small laboratory
in his house, where he resided with his wife and two
children. His neighbours say that he and his wife were
constantly quarrelling, and that at times they appeared to
be very wretched. He had been heard oa more than one
occasion to say ha would "do for his wife and children
one of those days," and some persons who sympathised
with them remonstrated with Hunt on their account. The
house, though small, bore a very respectable appear-
anoe, and some of the rooms were well and comfortably
furnished, The house was searched by the police, and a
small bottle of tincture of aconite, or monkshood, one of
the most deadly poisons known, was found.
It is a curious fact that although Parker, the cabman,
stated to the police and at the inquest that the man he
drove from Shoreditch station bad a moustache, several
people in the neighbourhood unite in stating that for the
last two years Hunt had gone with his upper lip shaven.
The Mr. M'Culloch referred to above is not a " west-end
ebym;st," as has been reported, but the present head of the,
firm of Messrs. Butler and M'Culloch. Last evening we
were informed that Hunt had been in their employment for
about three years. His usual business was to make a round
of calls early in the day and arrive in Covent garden in the
etersoon, when he attended t., customers in the shop, or
did wl'atever was required there.
On Frt,lar last Hunt asked for leave of absence for Sa-
turday, "as he was going into the country, to Margate."
n he appeared at the shop at his nal:Lucca
On Monday afternou.
time, and without exhibt:ng a‘nyafethearnnogoeninuhrisyaoleas•rrsan,
or manner. In the course of tL
Mr. M'Culloch's foreman, asked _him if
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had
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particulars of the horrible affair in a cab. 1, way towards
a
no reply, and he conducted himself in a Km, -f the after-
persons who came into the shop during the rest
uliu....nh
noon; in
but in the evening he sat with Mr.
the countin house and appeared freely to bein high spirits.
g- ,
than he usually
o
He was laughing and joking mofre
rgind. He parted with
did when in a similar frame
Mr. M'Culloch on Monday evening as !ate as seven o'clock,
not the slightest suspicion being entertained by any one
in whose company be had been that he was the murderer,