The National Register.
London, England, 1813-06-06 00:00:00

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think that something dreadful had been done. She went up stairs
with the housemaid, and knelt down on. the.fioor of the anti-room,
to. see what the marks were, and thought they looked like blood :
she -does not know whether she then looked into the bedroom;
thinks she did, as.' saw the toilet thrown over and some Wags lys
tug on thefloor ; but does not recollect whether this was the first
or second time of, going -up : the housemaid was with her to . the
auti•-room. Witness then went to the wash-house, to the laundry
maid, and asked her to go back with her, to see what was the mat-
ter ; they proceeded together to the beil room, when the laundry
Maid went M and opened one. of the window-shutters, when ma
looking back, ilie clakipedlier hands together and screened : wit-
ness saw the bed-clothes and other things on the floor : she they
ran down stairs, leaving the laundry-maid behind : in the servant**
hall she saw the the coachman, who made her sit down, as she was
fainting : when she ',recovered herself she saw the foo: man,- Ni.
cholson, coining into the servants' ball, with what she thought
were bloody sheets in his hands • he took a sheet from his. bed, (he -
sleeps in the hall,) and' folded ;he bloody sheet or sheets in it: the
footman then said t 9 witness, " Mrs.. Clarke, go to . your mistress,
she is still alive, perhaps she may be recovered;' she then ran up
stairs, and saw her master's body covered with, she believes, a
blanket on the floor ; her mistress was in bed, anti.still breathing ;
did not see her mistress afterwards, till she was dead; had not ace*.
the footman since,. ..
• Susannah Curnitk was next sworn: she had been a housemaid is
the family three
.weeks last Saturday: the footman was in the place
before she came : she never heard him express any anger of
disappointnient against her master : sl‘e put the rush-light in its
usual place in the anti-room about ten o'clock : it was grackedabout
half-way t(srn : she . wept to bed between ten and eleven : she
remembered Mrs. Clarke coming to bed, and desiring to be called
at half-past seven : she rose herself about ball-past six, leaving Mrs.
Clarkein bed : in passing through the hall she observed the hove
door about half open, a circumstance the had never seen before :
she shut the door, and then went to the lawiedoor, which was shuts
but the shutters were open. The . window shutters in the library
were all closed : she then went into the drawing-romn, were all the
windows were shut but one iu the centre, which was wide open :
the windows are low and only raised one step from the lawn : she
went up stairs, and found the anti-room locked, with the key out-
side : she opened the door, and saw foot-marks on the floor, and the
rusidigla gone from his stand : she thought that perhaps Mrs.
Clarke had been there : the bed room door was nearly wide open :
she then went into the room next the bed-room : there was a dread-
nil smell in the place : she left. the room, and went down stairs, arid
after clearling, the alressing,room and the library, she went again into
the anti-room to take away the dust. She then repaired to her own.
room to call Mrs. Clarke, to whom she told the circumstances of
the appearance and condition of the anti-room. Mrs, Clarke ex-
claimed in great alarm and agitation," Then my master and mistrelt
arc murdered I" She helped Mrs. Clarke on with her gown, and they
went-together to the .bed-room, Mrs. C. was afraid to go in, and
witness did not go ii) as she had never been accustomed so to do.
They knelt down and saw that the footsteps were bloody. They
then went together to the pantry. Witness did not go up again tiil
after the footman came down with the sheets. The footman cried
out for assistaince, saying his mistress was not yet dead.- She saw
him with the sheet or sheets covered with blood, which be wrapt
_up in scalething, she
:does not know what. The footman left the
bundle in the. hall, and.said he would go to Mr. Astley Cooper, and
for his master's partner, as he said he was• the properest person to
know what had happened. He then went down the yard with the ...
coachman. The poker in the bed-room lay between Itur master and
the blaeket, on the floor. She had never seen it before. All the
pokers belonging to the house were in their place. Had ni'ver seen
any4hing particular in the footman's conduct. Saw him both be-
fore and after the discovery in the morning; he appeared sober. He
looked rather sharp at her when lie first passed, but that was usual
with iiim when any one passed him.
Penelope Folds had been lani.lry-maid in the family fifteen years.
She rose a little after four o'clock on the Monday morning, and
soon after the washer-woman came, who let herself in by the limn-
dr) -door. About half-past seven Mrs. Clarke came to witness in the
laundq, and said she was afraid something was amiss ; and asl,-- "
witness to go up stairs with her. She did so, and went ins. • '
room, and opened part of one of the window-shutter-
master's body lying on the floor, and blood on '
' She came dower stairs and %seat vp 0.-- '
man covering her master with P '
meddling with the clothe-
['tress still breadline'
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