Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1873-02-01 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

MURDEU.  The three employes of the Great Eastern Railway Company, who on the morning of Christmas Day saw at the Shoreditch Station a man whose appearance corresponded with the description of the supposed murderer, attended at the House of Detention on Monday, for the purpose of seeing the prisoner, Dr Hassel. Prisoner of Belgian an! French nationality were placed in cells contiguous to that of Hessel, and the witnesses -were admitted one at a time. Trenter, looking at the inmates of live cells, and failing to recognise any one, the door of the sixth was opened and Dr Hessel stepped quietly forward, dresse I las when arrested, and with a natural and tranquil expression on his face. Trenter almost directly paused, and finally exclaimed, "That's as nigh him as I can see." To this he adhered. But, saying that he should like to see Dr. Hessel once more, and with his hat on, ha was requested to withdraw, while hats were found for Hessel and the other prisoners. This being done, and Dr Hessel having been placed in the fourth cell instead of the sixth, and the doors closed, Trenter was again called in. Again the doors were thrown open, and Dr Hessel was recognised in nearly the sameterms as before. The next witness, Smith, passed Dr Hessel by, although he looked very carefully at him, and at every one on either side of him. The others looked rough men compared with Dr. Hessel, who as he freely returned the gaze of Smith, kept hi hands crossed in front of him. The third witness, " Datchy," a German, who spoke longest with the man at the Shoreditch Station, did not in the least recognise Dr Hessel.  What transpired on Saturday tends to throw very great doubt on the value of the evidence which the police have gained with regard to' the appearance of the murderer of the woman in Great Coram Street. On Friday au inquest was held at St. Ann's Vestry-room Soho, on the body of a young Frenchman named George Mandeuit, who was found dead in his lodgings in Church Street, Soho. It was conclusively proved by the medical evidence that death had resulted from disease of the heart, awl a verdict to that effect was returned. Inspector Harnett, in the course of the inquiry, said he should like, to know where the deceased was on Christmas Eve; and on a juryman asking him if deceased resembled the Coram Street murderer, the inspector said there was a slight likeness. It having further appeared that Mrs Wright who kept the house in Coram Street at the time of the murder, was now living with the landlady of the house in which the deceased expired, it was decided thst the witnesses who saw Harriet Buswell with the supposed murderer should see the body. On Saturday, Superintendent Thompson had the body shown to the witness Griffin, who alleges he saw one of the persons in the omnibus in which the murdered woman came home, end the boy Connolly, who, on being confronted with Dr Hessel, stated that the accused wmtleman was like the supposed murderer. They both agreed that the man who was found dead in the house in Church Street was that of the person whom they saw with deceased on the night in question, The police, however, declare that there is very little likeness between the dead Frenchman and the accused German. No fresh evidence has been discovered to prove that Dr Hessel had anything to do with the murder.  TASSUNIAN lamc—Experiments in smelting the Tasmanian iron ore from the Ilfracombe beds have been eucce,sfully made. The iron is said by competent judges to be equal to any produced in Europe. A small boll was cast, and is now on view at the exhibition. The remainder of the ore was run in prepared pig m^ulds weighing about kid 281bs each, and one " sow " of about 3cwt. An influential company has got a lease of a large treat of the iron country, and smelting operations will be begun without delay.—Meltourne Age, Dee. 5.