The Sun. — 1864-09-22 (London, England)

THE MURDER OF MR. BRIGGS.  It has been decided that the prisoner Muller shall be present on Monday morning next, at the adjourned coroner's inqUest. Mr Humphreys forwarded an application to Sir George Grey, to the effect that it was desirable Muller should be brought up before the jury, in order that his identity might be established to their satisfaction. This applis cation being remitted to Sir Richard Mayne, the Chief Commissioner, after consulting the detective inspectors who have charge of the case, reported his approval of the recommendation to Sir G. Grey, whoissued the necessary older. The prisoner will be taken.. direct from the Town Hall, Hackney, where the inquest is sitting, to the Bew-street Police-court, where the magisterial examination will be resumed. After his examination at Bow-strett on Monday last, when removed to the cell, Muller inveighed bitterly against the evidence which had been given by Matthews respecting the hat which was found in the railway carriage. The prisoner stigmatised the evidence given about this hat as false, saying there was not one word of truth in it; that Matthews knew he (Muller) had worn out the hat bought for him at Walker's long ago, and that the rim on one side was broken ; that the evidence had been given out of spite because ho (Muller) had threatened to give a relation of Matthews's into custody for theft some time ago, Concerning the identification of the hat found in Muller's trunk on board the Victoria, and which is supposed to have belonged to the murdered gentleman, some further evidence is likely to be forthcoming. One of the shopmen of Mr Digance, the hatter, has, it appears, a distinct remembrance of selling the hat to Mr Briggs, who, at the time, because it did not fit him, had a peculiar alteration made in the lining, which the shopman can identify. It was, more• over, a practice in the shop to mark on the inner side of the leath,!r lining the date when the article was purchased, which may afford an additional clue. The following is a copy of the letter which was handed to Muller in New York by an agent of the " Society for the Legal Protection of Garnet* in London :" New York, Aug., 1864. for the Mr Francis Muller, on board the Victoria-1 have been instructed by the Ilan. Secretary of the Society Legal Protection of Germans inLendon, to conirunnicato to ynat that the said society hsvo taken your case into their hands, and have appointed Mr Thomas Beard, solicitor, of No. 19, Basinghall-street, in London, to oaten iyour behalt, You may address yourself, as soon as y ive in Eng. Cannon-street, London, land, to the President of the above-named society, Mr M. D. Luker, of No. 2, Tower Royal, E.C. In the meantime, it may be advisable for you not to make any communication whateve ious r to the .dvice authorities or to private individuals, without prev a of a solicitor. Up to lay latest adviees from London, the German Society still consider you to be innocent of the chime you are accused of, and have resolved, in caso no tui ther advices should alter their opinion, to Ktv4i n.-) I rouble or expense to prove your being not guilty, it this is the case. A Dar. GANS,