A horrible murder was committed in the two o'clock express
train from London Bridge to Brighton last Monday, Mr. Gold, a retired stockbroker, living at Preston Park, near Brighton, having been murdered between the Merstham and Balcombe tunnels, and his body thrown out of the carriage in the latter tunnel, where it was discovered about four o'clock on. the same day. The-train never stopped between Croydon and Preston ParkAthe ticket station for Brighton), but some cot- tagetiltWoRey, which lies between the two tunnels, saw two men struggling in a railway-carriage which was attached to the train ; and a man in the next carriage heard four or five shots in quick succession, just on entering Merstham tunnel, but mistook them for fog-signals. The shots, it was evident from the condition of the body, had taken little or no effect. and the murder had been chiefly effected by a knife, the fracture of the skull, due to the fall from the carriage, probably completing the work.
