THE MURDERED GERMAN.

Evening Post, Issue 54, 11 April 1865, Page 2

THE MURDERED GERMAN.

We (Otagp Times) mentioned on Monday that the police were anxious to settle the question whether William Klauss and the murdered Geimun, " Charley," were one, for a man who gave the name oi Klauss had, two or three weeks ago, charged J .hu Ford with robbing him of about £16 in notes, in the shanty of Ellen Anderson ; and both Ford and Anderson are in custody ou suspicion of being concerned in the murder of Charley. The charge of robbery was not sufficiently sustained ; and Ford, being prosecuted under the Vagrancy Ordinance, as having no visible lawful means ot support, escaped by proving that within a recent period he had beon getting money by the sale of fish. When we made the request that William Klauss, if alive, would communicate with the police, the matter had r.ot been thoroughly traced through the records of that department. It now appears that Klauss complained of the robbery on the 9th u(£., and not on the 12th, as before stated ; so that Charley's return to the farm of Mr. Allan, on the 11th, and his statement that he had been robbed, are consistent with the theory that he was Klauss. But Klauss also told the detective that he was working at the farm of Mr. Allan, East Taieri, atvl he left his name as Charles, not Wi liam. If further proof were wanted that Klauis and " Charley" were one, it is supplied by the fact that the body of the murdered man has been exhumed ; and that it has been identified by persons who spoke to Klauss on the occasion when he attended at the Police Court to prefer his charge against Ford.