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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1864.
CRIME IN EUROPE.
Startling Tragedy Unyailed in
Prussia.
THE MULLER MURDER OUT
ZONE.
Story Of a Female Brigand in Italy
appalling Murder at Sea.

CRIMINAL MYSTERY N NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
MERDEK-A MULLER CASE In PRUSSIA,
EErom Wilmer J. Suith,s Times1

CRIMINAL MYSTERY N NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
MERDEH-A MULLER CASE In PRUSSIA.
EFrom Wilmer i Smiths Tlues.1
In the summer Of 1869 man named Klein,
IN the service Of a merchant ~,~'S'nc IN
biuenerplatz, at h!esla . - 'ad in
his bed one morning Wit 44.s sauu shattered
and bis tody bearing many terrible wounds
Ihe chest belonging 20 the man was also
found broken open and plundercd of great
number Of articles belonging to him. The
police industriously cndcarored to Iicht upon
some clue to the murder, but without sue
cess until some months afterward, when they
arprehended cigar.maker named Nico1aus,
who had incurrcda bad name, and had been
punished fdr various ofenscs. Matters seemed
to 60 awkwardly against Nicolaus, for it
was proved that the wai>tcoat he wore be-
longed to Klein be was unable to prove an
ali0i on tho night Of the murder. and
young girl swore that on the
morning after the dark deed she
saw him washing some bloody, linen In
dence, the jury acquitted him. Nothing
more occurred unit! the sp:'ns Of the present
year, when man WAS appreh ended at IN aerl-
cultural exhibition, be having some time pre-
siously committed IN otfense of q serious
character, When taken to the police station
attention was directed to his coat, which rs It
with the description Of the one etolen from
hlein's box, and it Was consequently consip-
cred that new clue to the DEVELOPMENT Of
the crime had been discovered. On the
strength Of this evidence afforded bY this
sIon it was found, was charged with the mur-
der. At the n,aglster1al Examination it was
cpnclusivcly proved that the coat was the one
which had belonged to Klein, and Sturze was
not able to offer the least explanation as to
how he had become possessed Of it. It was
proved that, although at the time Of his Nd.
prehension he lived six miles, from Brcslau,
be was in that city on the night Klein Was
murdered, and he WIS not able to bring for
ward any evidence to show with whom he
passed that night. The manner IN which the
murder was executed showed also that it
well acquainted with the premises. This WAS
especially clear from the fact that on the
morning after the murder the street door and
the door of klein's bedroom were properly
fastened, and that both keys were missing
from bunch Of nearly twenty which Klein
kept in his room. Stnrze furthermore had
been the predecessor Of Klein in his situation. ,
day during the previous year he called at tho
residence Of = woman in BresIau under the
pref Of seeking her husband. The wo.
man, who had some suspicious respecting the
visitor, requested him TO be seated: but this
he declined to do, and sought to iuduce her
was present. The woman began to feel more
aud mort uncomfortable at Ills visit, aud as
she declared whilst she was about to 20 into
an adjoining room, he cast such murderou3
glance at her that she ran from her dwelling,
and, without raising any alarm in her excite.
ment, hastened tn the place where her hus-
band was. Stutzc ayailed himself Of her nb-
sence to steal quantity Of money aud OBJ
jects Of value, and to decamp with his booty.
Some days afterward the woman found under
her cupboard dneadfully long knife, ~ sharp
as razor, SO that the presumption naturally
WAS, that Sturze had intended murder ns
we'll as robbery, and was only prevented
the more serious part
OF his project hy. the presence Of the little
had stolen smalt sum Of money frc,p him,
and had Threatened that if he did not keep
quiet he would thFnst'a knife into his ribs.
Notwithstanding all this evidence, only Il ma
1oTity of the jury, seven to five, returned
verdict Of guilty against Sturze. Under these
according to Prussian law, it
became necessary that the sentence should be
confirmed By the Judges, who, however, an
nulled it, and the accused was acquitted of
the charge. It is we'll worthy of mention
that an influential Prussian journal, the Kol-
nische Zeifung, concludes narrative Of the
above mentioned circumstances as follows: t
y 1t Is obvious that this caae Is very similar to
that OF Muller, in London but the conduct |
Of the jury is dissimilar. InEngland, may be. /
n order to avoid any ceremony, they would |
simply have hanged Nicolaus, and Sturze might |
have earned two thousand thalers, while we
have been unwilling to pronounce decided I
sentence. We only declare that too few md |
Muller guilty Of the murder Of Briggs"
1oRRlELE TRAGEDY At sEA-Two FREycHMES
MCKDEE TWO SAILORS AND THEN COMMIT
SUICIDE.