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Show 5 AN EXTll A QUOIN A Hi TH I A Uow MfnoEitEBS .-' Anx convicted I . Ik a London Times of recent date, . Bhd the following report of it rcmarki ' trial and conviction of murder; No prise' will bo felt by any ono on Icon o that the trial at the Old liailcy termini yesterday with the conviction or tiro e oner Mulliijs, who received' seulcnc I death. Although the case was on tl. cireuinsteutial evidence, the guilt of man was proved beyond, all rcusum r- doubt The last few mouths have 1 y unusually prolific in murders of the w oikind; were it not so the Stepney ei would, probably, have obtained ev m j Inrger share of public attention, for re manner in which the nefarious cnnniii i tho murderer Ud to his own detcetn almost new in the anupls of crime. N( '11 in our recollection, lias a prisoner r deservedly received sentence of death n- this wicked old man. Tho murdei y;' which he is to die was in the bighes ie- jgree, cold-blooded and cruel; but evel 1'tl guilt of this is perhaps surpashed by j." 1 which lis medituted when he laid his e ,', 1 for the rum of I'.mm, to commit a c uii I and then to jockct the reward offere the discovery by falsely deuouueim . it other man, is a refinement of villuiiy v My almost borders on romance, it. Tho story is, indeed, one of the ne- extruordinary that has ever been to in; fa X'onrt of Justice. A the niurdfi md tho first steps toward detection took ise in the early autumn, while a large po sec of the pnblie was far distant frOm ;cy thing like nu English newspaper, we the 1 epitomize in a few lines the mam lo cn the case as detailed nt the Tarious c; do, nations, and at the trial which hni be ' concluded. The murdered jcron, j as Enisle?, was 6 widow, about 10 yei It's ' age, of very miserly habits. She livi bis ! tirely aloue, iu the neighborhood of so; 1 End, not only jerformIng all dou mo ' duties for herself, but going out to c in't ! her rents, lor bhe jHisseitsed cousidt property in houses. Every Mondu irns' wcut on this errand, and would on, ' home tome JtaO, JttO, or S0. Sh an last secu alive about 1 o'clock c i.: I nr MoniLiv. the 13th of Ai UIVIHMj, l ' .- - - Lso Ou tho ensiling I nday, the 17th, i ttle named Emm, who bad been oecusii the employed by the deceased, commun ked 'wlth n Mr. Foith, who had mar daughter of the dceensed, and the was that the house was entered, anil vitb j limsley was found murdered in a 1 ittlo room. Many jwople had knocked ISut'door of thehon.e during tho prei she three days, but could mako no out i- so and it caunot be doubted that si ' been murdered in the night betweci tho day and Tuesday. A reward was c first JE100, then of X'300, and an the I up September a communication was to tthc the police by a man nnmcd Mulli subsequent accused. He denounce! irk!" 1 as the murderer, and said that 1 been watching Emm's cottsg, I one to put ni nan on i"""' sure enough, contained properly belong . to tho' deceased, The parcel was J wound with a dirty aprou string. 'Id y was an enclosure bound with wpx cc y The property consisted of spoon 0 other "articles, together with a cheek n iUO, drawn, by u firm who were taa r. of Mrs. Einslcy, and paid by them to I li on the very day she was mnrdered. Wl d ever, then possessed this check, and pvil Is Into the parcel, puiy be fairly looked up r; ti tho murderer. Tho whole gist of t io case for the prosecution was to show tS ly not Emm, but Atultius hfuitelf, made the parcel, and lud It in the spot whil le, he nfterkard conducted the police, de The ctidenec, though entirely circ stuntlat, coints from' many. different qi y, ten, and the combined effi'ct' Is lo 1 1 (no doubt that Mulliiu, and no one le had possession of the decoatcd'i pronf I nud used It to ensure the ruin of Ei; ir it was provcd beyond doubt that U went to Stratford on the night of u murder, that ho, waa In couipauy y o more than one person up to midiii and that then he went home to hedi d wns also proved that on the day whei le was alleged to. have hidden the psrc namely, the 8th of September, four wi o after tho murder, he was not, out o d cottage' tilt 10 o'clock; Alullins ha r, 'stated that he saw htm in tho brick-d brick-d between H aud 9, Emm therefore, b proved iuuoecnt, and Alullins' cvidi shown to be false, we havo very ilr d grouuds for trausftrring our suspicion y the latter. A number ofclrcumita u cause suspicion to grow juto certni ?' Alutltui was seen About the phce wl the inirccl was found On the Vrli the day btfiirc he rnudc the chtrg '' was seen at the brick-field. No had I ie seen on the evening of. the raurdt n about 8 o'clock in the iiclghborliod the deceased's house. The witness 1 :r mond positively identified htm, and II otliir person saw him pasiiug thr is Stepney Green, Wo are Hot disposed, however, b taeh much importance to this last en . for the sailor who guvetbo evidence I ld nothing of the prlsouer before, and in as Mulliiis' counsel suggetted have ti ar- mscd hm from the description win on was uftorwards confrtowtwi wfih' hi ud the station house. The tailor. it. Mulli Ktte.inl, and that bis his kets seemed to Imvo n good deal in I iid nud gave notice to the police before ret, litis was apprehended. There are, : a ever, much etronger pieces of uvhl Ou the manlfepltie of Alullins' lod, was fouud a piece of string exactly r lr tq that which limpid up tliu pi '' and there w-as also wax such u was for the rord which wan tied round tl closure. It was suggested' that M koowiug that Emm wasu shoemaker, o was cord In order, to give n color t hie jtory that Emm hud hidden, the p sur A pencil-case belonging to the dec U'g was disposed f by tlic prisoner's ted shortly uftcr the murder. Alnllhi! iris-1 by trade a ptasterer, aud the hamni " of' used exactly fitted the wounds whjc i of prived Mrs. Kinsley of life. Iu the this ted blood was the mark of a nailed .l.lr.1 1 I.. 1 . tC..lt!..w I. ...I t. ......... luiL-i ttn( rucii a iiooi .iiuiunx uati lurown ecu adust hole tome time after the fatal rst in (diort the .unusual circumstanll line deuce which m forthcoming when n a tales of blood are unraveled, leav the doubt that the prisoner was gnilty. f will go to his doom without pity froi in 's one. In times when it is alleged tl rer, many evildoers escape, it U at least lore factory to find the most deliberate han who has come before our Conn fr Fonie time bus not succeeded in a ;te justice. This case reveals lo us the t,e most effective means which thut dencc uses for the detection' of trim plot W,(1 stem that in many cases tin rimo ticrer cunnot rest bnt is im',ellrd I for irresistnble force to talk of hU nu nud to do something to avert the hlch ,.f0I1 which he fimcies nbont to lij him. That Alnllius wautcd to g nost x'300, is certain enough; but there lJ "J little doubt that he ns urged on nud uncontrolabto desire lo glvo jmbl ilaca j,jcion an olject, and that he hoj tion ,10 sacrifice of Emm to satisfy aD?" for ever. Ho that as it may, tin may wi,ich bo bad sot for a guiltlci t of caught his owu foot; his wicked m :urn'" Hons recoiled ou his owu hesd, and jnt now, after a lengthened trud, t Jary tiencc, and impartiality of width I r nf t :.t....i i.:...A,.tr 1' |