The Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1864-11-26 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

THE PLAISTOW MURDER.  On Friday last Dr. Carpel, the minister of the German Lutheran Church. in Alie.street, Goalman'efields, London, who attended Muller to the scaffold, , was sent for by Mr. Stringer, the governor of Ilford Gaol, at the prisoners special request. The rev, gentleman attended, and was in commuidon with the pris Boner for about an hour. The prisoner has also been Visited by the Prussian Ambassador, who stated to the prison authorities after the interview that the orieoner Was not a Itnissian eobject, but pronounced him a to be a Hanoverian. The papers relating to the prisoner DOW in the hands of the police would, however, seem to point to a different conclusion. No Legal Protection Society has yet taken any steps to provide for the prisoner's defence A fresh point of interest has started up in connexion with the white-handled knife picked up in the reeds the day after the body was discovered, and with which it ii sought to establish that the head of the murdered man was dissevered four day R after the murder. It is stated that this knife was missed from the place where the prisoner was employed as horn-keeper, and will be identified by the butcher who employed him, and who is also a German, as one which was lost while Kohl was in his service. Kohl left his work about August last, and obtained employment in a large sugar bakery at Plaistow, which he left for some unknown meson. He married ahout six weeks since, and had not done any work during that time, Au internal post mortein examination of the head ban been Liade, and in addition to the injuries apparent on the external examination there has been found a very exteneive fracture of the left temporal bone ; so extensive, indeed, as to readily admit three fingers into the cavity of the skull. The bone was found to be completely xmashed, and the weapon inflicting this injury must have been the back part of a hammer, or else a hatchet. The injury was sufficient of itself to cause instantaneous death. The inediteel ehamination also shows that the head was not cut off until after the body was quite cold. The body of the murdered man was buried on Wednesday last at Weethane Cemetery. The corpse WaR conveyed in a hearse from the deadhouse at the Bell and Anchor Tavern, and was met in the Harking-road by Inspector Nightingale, who had just received a message that Dr. Letheby required some of the deceased's hair for a particular purpose. The hearse was stopped, and the coffin having been conveyed to the Bsrking-road Policestation was there opened, and Dr. Morris received a sufficient quantity of the hair. The coffin was again fastened and was conveyed to the cemetery, where it Was interred.  Oa Sunday the reed bed where the body and head were found was visited by a large crowd of persons. The spot it immediately opposite Charlton, and DO wilder or more dreary place can be conceived. The credo are upwards of ten feet in height, and present an almost impenetrable masa, with the exception that there are one or two narrow lanes, to aim h sem F. gamed over a deep ditch by means of a plank. V. ry often this bed is submerged, so that but for the accidental discovery if the body at the time by the lads out shooting the crime would probably have never been traced. The only persona who frequent the spot are labouring men and lade. It in considered not improbable that the deceased and his murderer were out shooting birds with a pistol, and it is said, tricked, that a few daye before the crime was perpetrated the prisoner and the deceased were together in the Caine place, engaged in that sport, and that the deceased was wounded with one or two small shots in the ear.  1). Saturday the primmer Kohl WW4 again brought before the magistrate. at Ilford, charged with the murder of Puhrhop, the young German whose head. less caries was found in Plaistow Marshes. The (WM has nose assumed such an septet that the Government have determined to take the matter into their own hands, and Mr. Giffard, the barrister, appeared an their behalf to ask for a remand, in order that be "night have time to make himself acquainted with the circumstances of the case. This was agreed to, and the further hearing of the case was adjourned to a future day..  Some way strict inquirieshave been instituted, both  MP=  ' in this country and abroad, as to-