The Miner and Workman's Advocate. — 1864-11-26 (London, England)

THE GERMANS AND TH. CASE OF  MULER:  The Hermann (German paver published' in London; contains an article from the pen of Dr. 'lnch,. in which the opinion is. expressed that the statement made by Dr. Cappel respecting the last wYris of Muller should be accepted with oonfi ience by every impartial person, be cause the reverend gentleman paid visits to the•prisoner with, in the fast instance, a fall conviction of his inno cence. Dr. Cappel,, the writer remarks, never attempted to exercise any undue pressure en the prisoner,. ana therefore his statement had all the ialne of spontaneity. The Reform' a Berlin newpper, breaks oat into-the fallowing wild tirade =tin 54t ibject of the murderer's-execution  _ "An execution weinny tall murder was the day before yesterdapcommitted:on the person of the unlucky journeyman tailor at London. -The word re are in ths habit of using for execution' in German has,. etymologically, affinity withthat oiberterin,common in both languages 'right.! We really don% know in what relation English 'right' stands in that, particular piece of workmanship with which the English capital, emerging from the pions tranquillity of its sabbrAhr began the week..; but the German recht' declines having anything whatever to do. with so low and ignoble-au act. A murder it is and will -ever remain, no matter whether Muller was guilty or not. Man could not pronounce him to have been guilty. If in the anguish of death—in the last muttered words of a. convulsed frame—he really confessed his guilt—this wasno more than an accident, a fortuitous coineidence of the truth with a blind vindictive verdict. But itiwas worse than murder—it was murder oa the ground of national prejudice and. hatred. The Schleswig-Holstein mar and. the impotent rage of the English aristocratic mob, tied -the noose by which was hung the man Mailer. Thedrop was made to fall by the noble zeal o! the German .Legal Protection Society,. which by the journ ‘listic :hounds was denounced as an attempt against the•ancident .dignity of English judicial proceedings. And that vene— rable assembly which are used to attend on hanging .days in front of -Newgate prison, that most respectabls -conglomeration of thieves and robbers, would have .stormed the scaffold and destroyed the victim had the ,Queen dared to entertain the prayers of her crowned. cousins of Germany, who a few days previously h .d been .dragged in effigy through the mire of the capital to in-vest the celebration of Guy Fawkes day with fresh ..charms. We. earnestly hope that the judgment of -the people. of Germany wiil not be led astray- by a • confession- alleged to have fallen from the qnivering lips of a dying man in his last moments. More explicit confessions hare been made in similar situations which were subsequently proved to have been wholly .-untrue. Who will deny that the time between judgment and punishment,-the days between the Central Criminal Court, and that Monday morning in front of Newgate, . have been a moral torture—the vestibule of insanity—to • the journeyman tailor? But, even were it truth itself • what he is said to have confessed,' are the proceedings, :is the conduct, of the police and the judges—is the ver. &et of the jury, and the indifference of the Secretary. of State—more justifiable on that account? All tile-private :intelligence Gerrno.n papers receive from London has been in favour of. Muller. The German Legal Protection 'Society, and, co-operating with it, the German exiles, hold the same opinion. Had we to reproach the jury only with an error of judgment this indeed would be a most lamentable case,. but a mistake only of some private and insignificant individuals. But the-way in which the inquiry was carried on, the manner in which the proceedings were conducted be'ore the jury, was brimful aprejudice and partiality. The most important facts when calculated to exonerate Muller, were left out of account; tracks in his favour were not followed up; and for this infamous practice an excuse is found in BOM6 technical rules connected. with the justice of England...