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TS3E CASE F FRANZ MULLER;!At-the Worship 6treefc Tolice court on November ■ a person, whose name did not transpire, and who .was accompanied by the Baron de Camin and Mr. and Mrs. Blythe, the two latter of whom were examined as witnesses on the late trial of Muller at the Central Criminal Court, attended before Mr. Ellison, and requested his permission to nuke the following declarations in support of a memorial to the Home Secretary in the convict’s favour.After perusing the declarations, Mr, Ellison told the •applicant that he .scarcely thought a police court a . proper place to make them, -and that if any advantage TOas to be obtainedAom them* it would^dnLis opinion, be more effectually secured by the same course before a j udge at *the chainbers.The applicant said they did not purpose to use them further than as a guarantee for what was set forth in the memorial, and that the .public might he assured that what was so put forth was done so ionct fide. It was necessary that the declarations should bemade then as they had to he presented next morning to Sir George Grey.Mr. Ellison said he had a very strong doubt whether such declarations really came within the meaning of the Act under which it was wished to make them, but he would consent to sign them, for what they were worth, in order not to interpose any unnecessary delay. He asked if Mrs. Biy th was examined at the coroner’s inquest.The applicant replied that she was examined both before the coroner and at the Old Bailey, but that many very important things were not then referred to which she now wished to depose to. The public were perfectly aware that no one could make such a declaration, if what was declared to was false, without being subject to the penalties following a charge of perjury.Mr. Ellison repeated that he had a very strong doubt indeed as to the propriety of his permitting such declarations to be made, and that he only consented to it on the ground he had before stated.The first declaration was that of the Baron de Camin, and was as follows;—*'44 I, Andre Massena, Baron de Camin, of the Hue de Richelieu, Paris, in the Empire of France, gentleman, do solemnly and sincerely declare that on the 9th of July, 1861, I went to see a friend at Mile-end, and that on my road to the Hackney-wick station I lost my way, and that while I was wandering about I came near the embankment between the Hackney-wiek and Bow stations, and that I met a working man, and asked him my way; and that, while he was showing me the way, there came up a man Moody from head to foot; he was staggering, and I said to the man who was with me that the other looked like a man who had killed some* body or somebody had tried to kill him, and my companion said I was quite right. When the blood-covered man saw us, he avoided us, and went towards the canal.I told these facta to Sergeant Clarke.“AndI make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the provisions of an Act made and passed in the Session of Parliament of the 5th and 6th years of the reign of his late Majesty King William the Fourth, entitled 4 An Act to repeal an Act of the present Session of Parliament,* entitled ( An Act for the more effectual abolition of oaths and affirmations taken and made in various departments of the Staterand to substitute declarations in lieu thereof, and for the more entire suppression of voluntary and extrajudicial oaths and affidavits, and to make other provisions for the abolition of unnecessary oaths/ ” Camin/* ^*4 Subscribedw and declared before me, at Worship street Police court, this 8th day of November, 1864, C.E. Eixison.**rrx, /I i-rrr*« flirt /InnlATra Rlvr+Ti nnrl
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London St Pancras News and Marylebone Journal
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Nov 12, 1864
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