The Sun. — 1856-11-17 (London, England)

HORRIBLE MURDRR 01? A RAILWAY  CABIIIER.  DUBLIN, SATURDAY. A most painful sensation was created here ye-tterday afternoon by the discovery of a very horrible and my• sterious circumstance at the terminus of the Midland Great Western (Ireland) Railway, the body of Mr. Geo. Little, the cashier, having been found in his office with the throat cut in a frightful manner, and all the appearances which led the public to suppose that tEe unfortunate deceased had committed suicide. It appeared that in the early part of the morning the absence of the deceased was not noticed, and that his office door remained closed without attracting attention until 11 o'clock, when a young lady, his sister, arrived at the terminus, to inquire about his absence, stating that he had not returned home during the last night. Inquiries were then made, and one of the porters observing then for the first time that the ga, was still lighted, a good deal of alarm was felt. A ladder was procured, and a boy entered the room through a window, when he discovered the body of the unfortunate ca,hier lying en. his face in the midst of a pool of blood. Toe police were then sent for, the door was broken open, and several persons connected with the railway entered. The body was examined and found to be quite cold, and the throat was cut from ear to ear, in such a manner as to leavo the head almost banging from the body. Such a discovery at the present moment, when men's minds are filled with reports of the defalcations of railway and other officials, immediately created the impression that the unfortunate deceased had been guilty of some such breach of trust, and had sought to escape from the consequences by suic;ee; Although the circumstance of a large sum of money being found i❑ his desk, and the .statement also made that he bad cleared up his accounts in a satisfactory manner this week, were calculated to alter that supposition. Mr. [iv ortman, tne of the city coroners, was called in, aid an inquest commenced late in the afternoon ; but only a very imperfect examination of the circumstances having yet been made, the coroner thought it right to adjourn the proceedings to this day, and in the mean time caused the detective police to make a rigid search on the premises.  The inquest was resumed shortly after 12 o'clock today, and the circumstances which had turned up in the mean time left no doubt whatever that the deceased bad been the victim of a most brutal murder. The instrument with which bis throat had been cut bad disappeared, nothing • ith a sharp edge having been found in the room except a penknife, which was quite clean. The key of the door had also vanishel, the murderer having evidently locked the door and taken the key with him. A towel was found covered with marks of blood and some cuts, as if the knife with which the deed; was done had been wiped in it in a hasty manner. But when the body was examined by medical men no further evidence was rtquired that a murder had been perpetrated. The throat was mangled in a shocking manner, the lobe of one of the ears was cut off, and one side of the skull nearly battered in with some blunt instrument, a circumstanoe which was further explained by some clotted blood and bair found on the poker. Some of the mysterious circuimitances of the case remain, however, still unexplained. Thus, the large sum of money, amounting to several hundred pounds in gold and notes, which still laid on the table, would not indicate that a robbery had been committed, although it is stated that a large sum besides that thus undisturbed is missing. The secretary of the company was examined, and showed that the deceased had made up his accounts in a satisfactory manner up to Wednesday last, and that no circumstances could be discovered to impeach his character in the slightest degree. After hearing some other general evidence, as well as that of the medical gentlemen who had examined the body, the jury, just at post hour, returned a verdict of " wilful murder" against some person or persons unknown.  M.