The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-22 00:00:00

IENLAND.

DUBLIN, narDAT.
THE MURDER OF HR. LITTLE.--DISCOVERY OF ANOTHER
OF THE WEAPONS.
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Some excitement was cmsed yesterday by the an-
nouncement that three persons were arrested at Kelison
suspicion of being concerned in the horrible murder of
Mr. Little, the cashier of the Midland Gre t Western
Railway, but, in the course of a minute investigation,
nothing was elicited to connect them with that crime.
Two of the parties tarn out to be persons who were seen
in a public-house at Stoneybatter on the day after the
murder, and heard disputing ab?ut money ; but, instead •

of having 3001.• in their possession, as was currently- re-
ported, the sum found with them amounted only to one
a )vereign, and eight and' sixpence io silver. The search
in the canal for the weapons used by the assassin was
resumed yegterday morning, and continued throughout
the day with great diligence, but for several hOura
out any success. S'aortly after four o'clock, however, -a.
shout from one of the workmen employed in sifting the
I,fted nod announced that some discovery had been
made. Numbers rushed to the spot where the workman
stood. when it was ascertained that a razor had been
found slightly imbedded in the mud. The razor, on
being examined. wag recognised as being of superior ma-
nufacture. The blade, which ,ia of fine steel and well
finished, is fitted in a black handle. It appears to
have been part of the toilet appointments of some re-
spectable person. The razor was found within a few
feet of the spot where the hammer was found on Wed-
nesday ; and there appears to be no second opinion as to
the fact thet it is the weapon with which the assassin
completed bis work of death, by cutting the throat of
bis victim, after having first knocked him senseless by
the already fatal blows of the hammer.

Mr. Kenmis, Crown solicitor, was actively engaged
during the day investigating every particular connected
with the murder, but his inquiries were of course strictly
private. Thebammer which was discovered in the canal
on Wednesday has furnished an object for the exercise of
the tact and ingenuity of the police as a means, however
remote, of tracing out the assassin. No doubt whatever
is entertained of its being the weapon used by the mur-
derer. On examination it was ascertained that the in-
s, rument was a " fitter's" hammer, and made in the
workshop of the company. One of the smiths stated that
he had made it, and added that it was a new one, and
had never been used in the work for which it was in-
tended. The face of it had never been ground, and it
must have been taken out of the store, where there were
many more of the same description ; the handle, as we
have already stated, was a temporary one, and put in
loosely.' A rumour obtained general circulation yesterday
that the man who had taken the hammer from the store
had been found out and arrested. The story turns out to
be pure invention. No person had been arrested up to
twelve o'clock last night. Much surprise has been ex-
pressed at the Government having hitherto declined to
offer any reward for the apprehension of the murderer
or his associates, if aoy. This refusal was given, not-
withstanding the very strong representations which were
made to the authorities for the purpose of showing them
the wisdom of exertion in this case.

It is now asserted positively that of dee amount car-
ried away 2001. was in silver and over 1501. in gold,
which would constitute a weight of over 4 stone, a cir-
cumstance that would argue the participation of at least
more than one party i■ the crime.

Patrick Cullen, Catherine Cullen, and Hugh Collins,
were yesterday brought before Mr. O'Donnell, having
been arrested upon vnspicion, or rather in the hope that
something might arise from their examination tending
to show that they bad been in some way concerned in
the recent atrocious outrage at the Broadatone Tenni-
nus, but nothing decisive was elicited.

John lialligan.a servant in the employment of Capt.
Hartley, ideutified Catherine and Patrick Cullen as two
of the parties with whom he had seen a large bag of sil-
ver and a roll of notes on Friday, the 14th inst.
The prisoner, Patrick Cullen, said—Everything be has
Waled is quite right, except about the five-shilling pieces.
I had three pounds of my own, and my wife had some

Mr. Chamberlain, the assistant of the deceased Mr.
Little, was asked if he could identify either of the male
prisoners as having been the party whom he had seen at
the terminus inquiring fur Mr. Cabrey, prior to the com-
mission of the murder.

William Cham, erlain looked about the office, and
pointed to a person present, not either of the prisoners,
and said he bore a resemblance to the ma❑ in question.
Edward William-, clerk in the employment of Mrs.
Brady, Stoneybatter, said that Patrick Cullen bad some
notes rolled up in his band, but not many, and he had
advised him to give them to his wife, as he was then in-
toxicated.
To Superintendent Finnarnore—l did not change any
notes for them, but Mrs. Brady gave them change of a It.
note, I think, which the female prisoner gave to pay her
husband's fare and her own to Navan, amounting to 43.
The car-office is at Mrs. Brady'd.
Michael'Smith stated that ha drove Patrick and Ca-
therine Cullen from Stoneybatter to Dunshaughlin.
They went from that to Navan with another driver ; he
did not see any money with them, nor did he hear them
spe<it of any.

Head Constable John Keatings proved the arrest of
the parties, and stated that he had on a former occasion
seen Patrick Cullen in company with a notorious gang
,sf pickpockets at KeL3. He had heard from a groger in
Kelly that some days since the male prisoner wanted to
get 251. in notes for gold.

- The prisoner—l never had so much money in my life.
Sergeant Kavanagh deposed that the prisoners when
tested gave contradictory statements. The male pri-
soner stated that they left Kelly's together on Thursday
morning, and slept the same night at her mother's in
Peter-street, Drogheda, and that they left on Friday
morning for Dublin. The woman alleged that she had
not seen her mother for a fortnight, and that she only
met her husband on the way. She could not tell what
street :he slept in whilst in Dublin. And the statement
of the male prisoner was that he never slept in Dublin in
his life, and the onlyrailway terminus in the city he had
ever been at was the Drogheda.
Superintendent Finnatnore applied to have them re-
manded.
Mr. O'Donnell ordered Collins to be discharged, and
said he would remand the others on the simple charge of
having money in their possession for which they could
not account satisfactorily.
The case was then remanded generally.