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in the kitchen ; she ran down the passage, and then
saw ►t herself. The Prisoner ell:tb•rift them made
a inewliog noise, and asked her rot• she 0*(1410
they were murdered . She' answered she was afraid
they were', Site rail up 10 Mr. h mAltes, and give
the alarm. She was broad awake from the tiineshe
went to bed on she slight its titers:twit unt►l her
daughter rime to he'd set eleven o'clock.
John Knight, die younger, said that he was
alarmed by toe last witriess about 1111f-oast seven
o'clock on the enorseiug after the murder, the 1 I d►
November. He then went down to the door of toe
kitchen, followed by the prisoner Chalcraft ; lie saw
the corpse of the murdered woman It log so close to
she door, that it stopped its courpl-re opening.
Vt'striess asked Chalcraft to go up stairs, but he
replied, " I cannot go." and Sertierd at the time
very much agitated. Witness then came away to
call io somebody, leaving► Chalcraft to the passage.
The body must have been sects by any body open-
ing the door mid calling up stairs.
sVisi. Henry Causton stated, that lie was a baker,
and lived next door to the late 'Mr. Chennell. The
hack of his ,presnise• opened into tire yard to which
Mr. Cherwell's pasasge led ; a door of his I►onse
was nearly opposite to the door of Mr. Cliriniell's
front kitchen ; on the night tel Mr. Cirentrell's mur-
der he went out at a quarter below ten o'clock ;
every thing then seemed quiet at Mr. Clwonell'ir;
in his kitchen there was certainly sin light. On
his return to his house, shortly ulterwarda, he heard
thr town cluck strike ten ; he then went to bed.—
The wall which divided his house from Mr. Chen-
hell's was so thin. that what passed in one could
be heard iii !heather. He used to hear Mr. Chen.
hell going to bed, or talking to his housekeeper;
but on that night after be went to bed at ten o'clock
be heard swilling. About twenty minutes before
eight o'clock in the morning after the murder, he
heard of it. He then saw Chalcraft to the middle
of the road, w►th his wins folded up, used
" My master and Bet are both murdered !"
Witness said, .. Good God ! what do you mean,
Chalcraft ?" He replied, " Bet lays in the
kitchen, and master up stairs !" Witness then
went down to the house, and saw the house.
keeper lying iu the front kitchen. She had all
her clothes on; she wore a white shawl or hand.
kerchief, with spots upon it, and white stock-
iiigs ; her clothes were up to her knees. Wit-
ness rail out and alarmed his own family ; he re-
turned immediately, and found the body of the
woman had been removed a few inches from the
spot in which he first Paw it, for the purpose of ad-
mitting the door to he fully opened. The house-
keeper's head had the marks of violent blows, one
particularly on the temple, and the throat cut '
so as to shew the head nearly cut oft; He
never went up to Mr. Chentiell's chamber. The
sou (lid wit live with his father, though be fre-
quently laid his meals with him. Witness lived
savers years next to the late Mr. Cliennell, whom he
knew to live on very bad terms with his son. He
had often heard the Prisoner Cherwell talk coo-
staidly bad of his father—a month► or two before the
murder. he could not speak positively as to the
time, lie beard the Prisoner in very bad language
express 1111 earnest desire fur his father's death. This
he had done for several years past ; on many oc-
casions witness has shuddered at the corrseness if
the expressions used by the. Min. He used also
to say, that lie had a great dsslike to the house-
keeper, whom be wished locoed out of doors, as
she was always making tnischief between him at►d
his father, anti telling tales of him. On the Son-
de). jthe day befor: the runnier) he came to
tress's bake-house, and carried home his father's
dinner.
Joint Earl was a elioemaker at Gorlalining, and
occasionally' worked for the late Mr. Cherwell. He'
worked for him on the night of the murder, and
saw him in Iris own shop at a quarter roast seven
o'clock on the night of the 10th of November.
The housekeeper was then in she kitchen. On the
following morning be saw Chalcraft, rs Ito &rid," J olm,
for God's sake come over, we can't find master any
where, and there is blood in she kitchen." %%Tittle's
went in and saw the housekeeper's body, and Chat-

craft then exclaimed, " Good God ! here Tier Bet
mxtdtred, mini no doubt movter has met the same
fate somewhere about the house." Chalcruft, by
witneav's desire. theta went for a constable. The
housekeeper wasireseed in white. When some of
the neighbours came in, witness went up stairs,
owl discovered Mr. eltennell lying in his lied
with his throat cut, and several wound. on Inv

head ; the bed-cluthes were up about lino, ens!
contented ti great field of blood. He then went
into the hou•ekerper'e room, but her bed dal not
seem :14 if it hod been slept in on that isigkt. As
he cattle down stairs, he ww the Prisoner, Cheunell,
at the dour of the front kitchen. W ultras stud.

" George, here'. a bail job happened to-night
here hes mpg' het tnUidrred, awl your hither
has met with the :Mute fate in Ind." lie re-
plied, " 0, 4!.-ar, n hat's to be dune." %lo-
ise... said, " Wor6't you go up mail see your
father E" Tie Vrisoiser snide no irply, but stuute-
dustily went op stints with loin, and sat ilow.i on a
chair at the left bide of los father, moil took a side-

look at the body, put a limdkerchief before Ins face,
and made a Ile ++iss alinuet ttttt e-
dixtely taken into cu•tody he the conetahle„ A c.o.e-
kuile war ittewu to wituese, which was covered with
blood ; lie knew it to hr the Liiire of the ale:•elowil,
Laving oiled aecti him u-e it. lie saw tire l'iisuiler
Clialciaft in the 'front of the bhui., and hearth him
asked why
.he dad not gd, in and see Mr master; he
repheil, '• i canit't go in, became I raw that neon
that was wurd..:red xt Petri-ar-Id " Nobody could
in any degree open the ki-cliev-door N ithinit aremg
the (rude, for it ul:eneti skein.t use lkous,tveli,e,
head. Cliolcraft must have stew this dead body
eilytt lie ca'.le6l W., master.
tross.exas4me: by Mr. Atabftrlva.
Coal. LAI was cle.sireil Ito bp for the con-
Ltel:e, the other piimmer, Chrii.Al:, was nut within
heariii?„
Itirtatrti s.sirl, that r.:.;:n :re: heard of the
murder he went up to ego, late NJr. Clo
room, and found his head dreadfully rut. The
Mood .Luna the v.eaoll was perfectly dry, as if i;
had been 6oine time. tie tom tlie hotly of
the housekeeper at the 1.41111 t time ; hue a 6.1 11.1131141
knife, the point of reettil in the flior, and
the Ede against the iimito keeper's body ; her apical
or handkerchief was bloody, but dry. lie felt the
arui of the wapiti's, api..l rusiiid it very cutd.
John Kteuei was kite sou ni the keener of the