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ter of personal limo: His answer was, s As God
is my judge, and you are my softiies*, these uplift-
ed hands were never stained with the blood of Mt
Bird, nr his servant.' He was now on Ins knees,
and giving use a keen and exist e.sire look,lw added,
in a tune sc.ircely audible-6 1 know—hut—more

presently.
" After the sacrament had heen'administend,
which was cio,be by the Itertereasik Mr.:digits 'with
weal ioleinisity, the chaplain and .gaoler tout' lbw
Ivory, and ler, me alone with 'we& tem
gether upwards of an hour. lusundictely as the
door of the cell was closed, estesed into a reli-
gious conveicition with him--diseetned ou the
mate or the soul after death—on a future judgment,
and on such other topics as were calenlittrd to den
feet his heart, snot to profiteer within true re-
pesitaoce before Owl, and faith in the Load Jims
Christ ! I thought that thy CIAICIPPOUr retard to
be now pre-emmently blessed. Hen" himself
acid, that this was the happiept moment 'he lead
yet experienced. [seised the favouable quip-
tom, for I saw that the heart em disposed to be
communicative.
" After exhausting alasost entry other topic of
suldren, I descanted opon the comfort of possessing
a true friend, to whom wr could Imbrium our heart,
cud reveal our sorrowe. You,' rata he, are that
friend that I might to conceal nothing drom.-
I can make you any ',tern fur all your good-
lien to me !'—' Yiss, Hussey; there's one renorn
whirl, you can, if you will, make; it wsN he a suf-
ficient reward—tell one all you know !' cast a
look at - . _
tbru begin'
to winch
tire, as I
Very MIME

oCelle waft
is agent

breuih, give
was agitated,
which I almost despaired being __ pro-
ceed, such was the difficulty he experienced itretn-
bodying in language the horrid eiarnttivet—
MSSEY'S CONFESSION TO MR. RUDGE IN RIS
CELL.

" All along have ¶ readlved never, even to my
tleartst relations, to divulge the secret, but to let it
die with me. Your letter staggered my resottstion,
hot I got over the difficulty. I ant not, the minder-
er. but I planned and instigated the robbery. The
Almighty gives me the power to declare this, and to
say, that to the blood of Mr. Bird, his servant, or
+my one else. my hands were neVer 'imbrued. A
man of the name of A. with one li, did We
hail accidentally met in Greenwich, and we became
intimate with each other. We had learned that
Mr. B. was very rich, and that he aorbetilhes went
to Loudon to receive large toms of (smarty. It
happened the some day, as I was 'kilns with A and
drinking at the'Tiger, we observed him sitting in
one of his rooms at a table, whereon was a good

deal of gold, and • number of what we tho-ught
were bank notes. I obaerked ibis erotki be a fine
job. This led to something further being raid,
and I proposed the robbery, saying, let us meet
this eireiling, and we will *e whist can be done. It
happeued, however. that nothing was attempted
that login, nor was any thing finally settled opt',
we not bring agreed as to the parts we should take
in the robbery. We again met ;tt may be about
a week after, sod my advice was, Bat we should
try that very evening, sod that I had provided a
hammer to open the door with. We went all three,
about half-past eleven; but finding tie answer was
veturued to ou► knocking. and as there was a great
many people passing and repassissg,"we became
disheartened; sud recollecting what my washer-
woman had said about Mr. Bird's early hours, we
all agreed to meet in the Park at a certain spot, and
to go f.oin thence to Mr. Bird's !Muse, which we
accordingly did, between eight and nine of the
evening of the murder. The plan wits this t—A
was to knock at the front-door, and B to get over,
or break open the side-door, and so proceed round
to the back-window. While this was doing. A was
to engage the servant in conversation, until such
time as he found B had got iu. I understood af-
terwards B had great difficulty in doing it, but he
at last did, when A immediately knocked down and
kill,d the servant with a mallet he had provided
himself with, and B rushed through the passage
and struggled with Mr. Bird, whom lie sums done
for with the hammer I had given him. While this
teas going on, I was staading out close to the
Tiger's Head, and was to whistle if I saw any one
was coming. which I did take, as there were two
persons that passed ; but es the night was very
foggy, and it was a little before eight its the
ev g, they seemed to take no notice of the light
of the candle which the servant had in her hand at
Mr. Bird's door. I kept watch fur about twenty
minutes, and thinking them a long time, and that
they might be discovered, 1 crossed the street, and
gently tapped at the door. No one answered, nor
did I hear any noise. Thinking this strange, I
went to the side-door, and tried to get its there, but
found it quite fait. 1 thirst returned to the front-
door, but could not open it. I knocked again, and
was at hist let in. I forget now by which of the
two, bust he said, %%'e were at the top of the liniut,
looking over what we had found, and you Martnesi
Its.' I went in, and in going sip stairs, stutulil,,i
over the body of the servant, which we then remov-
ed out of our way. I was shucked to learn I,mn
them the fate of Mr. Bird and the maid-servo:a ;
but B said it could hot be helped, n, they found
ti.era (and particularly the old 111J1 • an resolute.
After living in the house about five lsiuunte•, it was
agreed that I should go out, and iis ten ❑si.iutes
Mier they hutli came t.s me. I wus theu in the
bile of the street, nearly opposite to Mr. Bird's
house, and it was so dark that no one could see we.
We tons went into the Park, NIA by the light. from
a dark lantern. which A had brought with him, we
began dividing the property, wlr.ch, was tied sip in a
Their were a great tunny hut the
smallest part fell to my lot. They said that
the bureau ls grcat unruly guineas were foam!,
which, it was a4retd, they should have, tin I I the
batik notes, wittelses, ice. We these separastd, mud
I went and changed myself. ll'heis I had du .e
this, I came down privately, and went to a pond
near Vonsittarea-place, where I threw in both the
and 1161DfUti, which had heels tied op in my
bundle, mei which the other Lao men request's' me
to take with me. I suet A and It tally since or
twice afterwards. Their ship was, at the tune of

the claw, and 4istansed fir a isonieut, rod
goo to adders* one in the following words,
h I have slimily adhered, giving the nerve-
far as my recollectimt wilyertable me, in else
nelangasage lihith it was-related. The
ao. a melting one; and lie was occasionally
anted, as to be obliged to take a little
amd give vent to the fet4ings with Which he
.There was a Moment, indeed, in
I almost despaired of his being able to pro-