Suspicion fell on a German clergyman named Hessel. The waiter at the “Count Cavour” hotel and the greengrocer at whose shop Harriet Buswell called with the gentleman who accompanied her home, swore most positively Hessel was the man who was in company with the murdered woman on the night of the 24th (Christmas Eve), and that he and Harriet Buswell called at his shop and purchased some apples. Dr. Hessel was examined at Bow-street, and his legal adviser said that he was in a position to prove an _alibi_, the prisoner being at an American hotel in the east end of the town during the whole of the evening in question (Christmas Eve). He asked for a remand of eight days for the production of witnesses. This was granted, and on the next examination Dr. Hessel was released, the _alibi_ being deemed a sufficient proof of his innocence. This is a brief epitome of the case. There were, however, one or two other suspicious circumstances of minor importance, which it is now not necessary to dwell upon. The evidence of the waiter and greengrocer, both of whom had ample time and opportunity of observing the features of the accused, was so direct and positive as to justify his detention. Many suspected persons have been remanded upon much lighter testimony――have endured all the hardships of imprisonment without any expression of regret on the part of the executive or the public, but a loud outcry was raised at the injury sustained by Dr. Hessel. There was a general desire on the part of the public to send the ill-used gentleman from these shores――not only compensated in pocket, but compensated in mind and feelings. In the cruel penitentiary called the “House of Detention,” says a daily paper, at the time of his imprisonment, he was treated as a felon; and every untried man, however innocent, obtains there a sharp foretaste of the punishment that follows conviction. Dr. Hessel gave a vivid description of a few of his experiences in the Clerkenwell torture-house. The pens of indignant journalists were actively at work to chronicle the sufferings of the accused gentleman. The writers for the Press suddenly discovered that the treatment of prisoners and suspected persons generally was a scandal to this country. Our present system has been in operation a good many years, and it was therefore the more surprising that it was not assailed before, and still more so that it has not been so since. A general feeling of regret was expressed by all classes――from the Queen to the artisan――that the doctor should have been subjected to so much annoyance, inconvenience, and indignity. What can be more “gushing” than the following document, which was handsomely engrossed and written both in English and German, and presented to the German doctor:――