The Express. — 1863-11-11 (London, England)

WEATHER B.EPORT.-(THIS DAY.)  WIDAIEDAY, Norma 11. $ &Z.  THE TRIPLE MURDER IPA STREET CAb.  Kr. Matthew Spiess, prdsose to Mn.s Painter. of Denmark-hill, lee informed the polies that he was the landlord to Hunt. The f►mily were disagreeable tenants, sad he had wished to gat rid of them. Hunt had been his tenant for four years. Hs s►w bim on Friday night, when be told him his wife was out of her mind, and be had sent ber and the children to Brighton.  The body of Hunt bu been identified by the cabman Parker as the man whom be drove from the Great Eastern Railway to Ferniest's inn. Another cabman. named Peirce, as we stated yesterday, bas identified him as a man whom he had driven from Camberwell to Shoreditch station. It seems that on Saturday overlies, about seven o'clock, the second cabman was on his stand at Camberwell. green, when he wiei bailed by a lady in black with two little girls. She told him to drive to Shoreditch station, and to take the check-string in his band, as she would have to stop him on the road. When they had proceeded about SOO or 300 yards down Camberwell.road a man, who afterwards turned out to be the deceased, hailed bim, bat the cabman mid be was engaged. The man, however, said ha had friends in the cab whom be wasted to join. It Iris capacity of traveller for Menus. Butler and McCulloch, Hunt seems to have obtained a knowledge of herbs and chemistry. He bad fitted up a small laboratory in bis house, where he resided with bin wife and two children. The neighbours my that he end his wife were constantly quarrelling, and that at times they appeared to be very wretched. He bed been beard on more than one occasion to my be would "do for his wife and children one of three days," aid some persons who sympathised with them remonstrated with Hunt on their amount.  The Mr. McCulloch referred to above is not a " west-sod chemist," as hes been reported, but the present bead of the firm of Messrs. Butler and McCulloch. Last evening we were informed that Hunt had been in their employment for about three yean. Hie usual baldness was to make a round of calls early in the day and arrive in Covent-garden in the afternoon, when he atteoded to customers in the 'hop, or did whatever was required there. On Friday last Hunt asked for leave of abseoce for Saturday, "as he was going into the oouotry, to Marpte." On Monday afternoon be appeared at the shop at his usual time, and without exhibiting any strange in his appearanee or manner. In the course of the afternoon Mr. Youngman, Mr. McCulloch's foreman, asked him if be had read the particulars of the horrible affair in a cab. To this he mode no reply, sod he conducted himself in a surly way towards persona who came into the shop during the net of the afternoon; but in the evening be sat with Mr. McCulloch in the eonntioghouse, and appeared to be in high spirits. He was laughing and joking more freely than he usually did when in a similar frame of mind. He parted with Mr. McCulloch on Monday evening as late as 7 o'clock, not the slightest suspicion being entertained by anyone in whoee company be led bees that he was the murderer. Hunt had lately told Mr. McCulloch in a confidential sort of way several times that his wife was a great trouble to him. Ms seemed very food of his children. We have been requested to state that Mr. Hoot, pharmaceutical chemist, 6, High-street, Denmark-bill, Camberwell, who supplied the box of ointment to the deceased woman, is in no way related to or connected with the mordent's family.