3 AUGUST 1867, Page 3

A strange case of conflicting evidence as to a murder

was opened at Maidstone on Thursday. A woman had been out-. raged and murdered, and some time after a witness swears that she saw the prisoner, a tramp, with the deceased, near the spot where the body was found, and that she had also heard cries. Her reason for not making the statement before was that she was out that night without the knowledge of her husband, for the purpose of meeting another man. On the other hand, a strong alibi is set up, but no real discredit has yet been thrown on the incriminating evidence. All kinds of suspicions have been raised, but so far the case looks like a question of identity.