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expressed his regret that the act had not been ac.
complished two years sooner. It is difficult to
avoid tha suspicion that the result of the test oath
in disenfranchising three-fourths of the aforesaid
people was the real cause of Mr Lincoln's great
and unbounded satisfaction. If, on the Bth of
November, the 45,000 citizens who absented them-
selves from the polls because they would not per,
jure themselves by taking an oath which no one
has a right to (Xtort from them were to swear
under mental reservation as Mr Reverdy Johnson
advises, and cast their votes for General M.Clellan
immediately afterwards, it is highly probable
that Mr Lincoln would be as much disgusted with
Maryland as he is now pleased. At all events, if
the election be in Mr Lincoln's favour, and so close
that he could not have won it without the votes of
Maryland, Kentucky, Tennessee, and other States
in a similarly unhappy predicament, this question
of test of oaths will assume large and ominous pro-
portions. There is more danger in it than the
Administration seems to imagine, or Mr Lincoln
would not discuss it with such flippant disingenu-
ousness as he exhibited in his reply to the Tennes-
seans. The Americans will endure almost any
amount of wrong and hardship if it be committed
with the sanction of the law, or for the sake of their
darling object, the preservation of the Union; but
they are not tolerant of wrong when it is clearly
against the law, and committed, not for the sake of
Union, but for the sake of a man who, bat for the
accident of their votes, would be no better or more
privileged than any other citizen.

the two candidates of the Presidency, but because
he was Abraham Lincoln, legally elected to and in
possession of that high office. Their object was to
remonstrate against the act of one of his subordinates
—a candidate for the•Vlce-Presidency, who abused
his position as military Governor of their State to
impoee a test oath, the effect of which would be to
deter from voting, or to disallow, if tendered, the
vote of every inhabitant who would not swear that
he had " loyally" supported the existing adminis-
tration in all acts and proclamations ; that he bad
never given aid or comfort to a rebel, though that
rebel might have been his own father,son, or brother
wounded in battle and returning home to die; and
who would not pledge himself to oppose either peace
or an armistice with the South, until " peace"
and " armistice" became words of no account by
the total suppression of the rebellion. The people
of Tennessee, as well as the people of New York or
any other State, have the undoubted right to con-
sider the imposition of such an oath a gross outrage,
and it is possible, if the Constitution of the United
States expressly prohibited the re-election of a
President, that Mr, Lincoln might have taken as
unfavourable a view of Mr. Andrew Johnson's
proceedings as that held by the deputation. But
Mr. Lincoln, the candidate, could not rise to the
height of a sound argument. Forgetting that he
was the President, he
_told the deputation that as
Gen, M'Clellaa's friends were nducting the elec-
tion in their way, he (Mr LincoTn) would conduct it
in his way; and the deputation retired to tell their
story to the world, and add one more to the mass of
daily accumulating proofs that American liberty
only exists upon military sufferance, if it did not
wholly expire with the Presidential term of Mr
Buchanan. It is not charged by anybody that Gen.
M'Clellan's friends are acting illegally, unconstitu-
tionally, or even unfairly in their way of opposing
Mr Lincoln; but Mr Lincoln admitted in the few
words which so startled the deputation that his way
was Governor Johnson's way, illegal and unconsti-
tutional as it might be, and unfair as it certainly
was. As the publication of the documents and Mr
Lincoln's emphatic and uncourteous commentary
was doing him harm, he took a week to reconsider
the matter, and has accordingly written a letter to
the deputation, which has not mended the matter,
but made it greatly the worse. He peremptorily
declines to interfere with Governor Johnson in any
way whatever, and ventures upon three very extra-,
ordinary assertions—first, that " the movement set
on foot by Governor Johnson does not, as the depu•
tation seems to assume, emanate from the National
Executive;" secondly, that the plan does not
threaten violence or coercion against any one ; and,
thirdly, that Governor Johnson, like any other loyal
citizen of Tennessee, has the right to favour any
political plan he chooses. The answer to the first
assertion is that,Governor Johnson is a military com-
mander, appointed by Mr Lincoln ; that in propos-
ing the oath complained of he acts wholly in his
military capacity, and that consequently Mr Lincoln,
his superior officer, having the power to remove him,
becomes responsible for the official conduct of his
subordinate. The answer to the second is that,
although the plan of Governor Johnson may not
threaten:physical violence or coercion, it undoubtedly
menaces moral violence and coercion against every

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The Murder in Plaistow-marshes.

member of the Democratic party in Tennessee, and
every opponent of the war and the policy of the
present Administration in that State, oho will not
perjure himself as a preliminary to recording his vote
is favour of Gen. MeClellan. And when Mr Lincoln
tells the deputation, as he proceeds to do, that it
they object to the plan they can leave it alone, and
thus find their perfect security, he adds insult to
injury. Of course nothing would please him and
Mr Johnson better than that all the supporters and
friends of Gen. M'CAellan in Tennessee should ab-
sent themselves from the polls, and find perfect
security in refraining alike from swearing and from
voting. The third statement, that Mr Johnson has
as much right as any other citizen to favour any
political plan he chooses, is quite true; but it did
not suit the purpose of Mr Lincoln to remember that
it was not of Andrew Johnson the private citizen—
neither better, nor greater, nor more privileged than
any other person in America—that complaint was
made, but of Andrew Johnson the Military Go-
vernor and Dictator of
Tennessee, who, by his
illegally imposed oath, endeavoured to deprive
other citizens as good as himself of the right ac-
corded to them by the Constitution. Nor is the
concluding paragraph of this document the least
curious or amazing part of it. Except," says Mr
Lincoln, 4' it be to give protection against violence,
I decline to interfere in any way in any Presiden-
tial election." Judged by his previous arguments
and statements, this declaration of neutrality simply
means that he will allow his friends and officers in
Tennessee, or anywhere else, to do as they please
is his interest, provided they do not resort to phy-
sical violence; but as the denial of a man's right is
very apt to provoke physical resistance, both law
and equity will
hold Mr Lincoln responsible for
any evil consequences that may result in any por-
tion of the country from the attempt of such men
as Mr. Johnson to filch an illegal victory, and de-
prive the American
people, or any portion of them,
of their right to elect their Chief Magistrate.
Maryland,in this respect, threatens to be as
troublesome as Kentucky or Tennessee. In that
State also a test oath, called an " ironclad," has
beenimposed by the Military Governor, General
Wallace, and in the recent election for State officers,
taken simultaneously
with the vote on the proposed
new Constitution, which prohibits slavery, no one
was allowed to cast his ballot who would not swear
that hefawvaost;olefyaalllnits war measures, of whatsoever
to the present Administration,
and in
kind or degree. Mr. Reverdy Johnson, an eminent
lawyer of Baltimore, and representative of Mary-
land in the Senate of the United States, advised
the Democratic party to take the oath, on the same
grounds that he would advise a man overpowered
by a highwayman to yield his money rather than
his life, and that an oath so taken was no more
binding upon the conscience of the individual than
the conveyance of the traveller's money to the
hands of the robber was a legitimate transfer which
the law would sanction. Perhaps some portion of
the voters of Maryland acted upon Mr. Johnson's
advice, for the new Constitution abolishing slavery
wee
popularrejeete v
rejected
byo a majority of nearly 2,000 upon
the tee ; but that the great mass of
the Marylanders were virtually disfranchised by
their refusal to take the oath is evident from
the fact that out of 60,000 voters only about
15,000, or one in four, took the trouble or thought
it prudent to present themselves at the polls,
Nevertheless, though there was a popular majority
against it, the Free State Constitution is declared
to have been carried. The votes of soldiers serving
in the Maryland regiments under Grant and
other Generals were recorded in its favour, in suffi-
cient numbers, it is officially stated, to turn the scale,
erne people into a mino-
or of Maryland, Mr.
arintdy coofntvheer twthhoelem. irrohr let yG oo
vf the
Bradford, disputes the legality of the military vote,
and such a disposition has been manifested through-
out the State to support him in this view that the
question will be litigated through all the Courts of
Maryland, until ultimately it will find its way to the
Supreme Court of the United States at Washington,
there to receive authoritative settlement at the
hands of the only tribunal competent to deal with
it. Under such circumstances the abolition of slavery
in Maryland by the supposed vote of the people
loses much of the lustre that would surround it if
the abolition were legally and freely decided by the
people, and the Republican party sings its songs of
triumph prematurely. Mr Lincoln, however, is well
pleased. He told a company of serenaders, who
played ig The Star-spangled Banner" and other
popular and patriotic airs under his windows at the
White House in honour of the event, that he
heartily congratulated not alone Maryland and the
nation, but the whole world, on the abolition of
slavery in the State by the vote of the people, and

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Yesterday, at the Stratford Police-court, before Mr John
Gurney Fry and Mr Raymond Pelly, presiding magistrates,
two persons, who were arrested on the previous evening on
suspicion of being concerned in the murder of John Fuhrs
hop, whose headless body was found, as already reported,
on Plaistow-marshes, were brought up for examination.
The names of the accused, as stated in the charge sheet,
were Ferdinand Edward Karl Kehl, of 4, Hay-street, Plais-
tow, sugarbaker, a native of Holland, and Hannah his wife,
an English woman, to ;whom the male prisoner had only
been married about five weeks. The prisoner Kohl is a dull
heavy-looking man, about 27 years of age. He did not seem
in the dock to pay much attention to the proceedings. His
wife, on the other hand, a girl of 18, showed that she acutely
felt the position in which slid was placed. She is the daugh-
ter of poor but respectable parents at Plaistow. Superin-
tendent Howie and Inspector Nightingale, of the K divi-
sion, and Sergeant Clarke, of the detective department of
metropolitan police, attended to conduct the case. The
court was densely crowded.
Upon the prisoners being placed at the bar the Chairman
inquired whether any legal adviser appeared on their behalf,
and was told that no one did.
The following evidence was then adduced :
Richard Harvey, of Crispin-street, Poplar, a shipwright's
apprentice, said—On Tuesday afternoon, about half-past 1,
I was going along the river bank near Plaistow-marshes,
close to Silvertown, accompanied by Josiah Gaster and some
other persons. One of the men belonging to the party sent
me among some reeds to drive up the birds for him to shoot
at, he having a gun. As I was walking through the reeds
I noticed the dead body of a man. I was about five yards
from the corpse when I first saw it. I ran out of the reeds
and told my companions. The body, which was lying on
its back, had no head. The right hand was lying on the
breast, and the left arm was lying by its side. It was about
50 yards from the river wall or bank. There is a broad
reed shore at this point, and the reeds growing there are
about seven feet high. Gaster. upon hearing what I said,
went for a constable. The body was dressed only in a pair
of black cloth trousers and Wellington boots. There was a
small piece of a white shirt on the left arm of the body, no
other portions of the shirt remaining.
The male prisoner, in reply to the Chairman, said he had
no questions to ask this witness.
Josiah Gaster, 7, Bromley-street, Poplar, confirmed the
account given by the previous witness of the discovery of
the body. He said the rats had eaten the flesh i ff the hands.
The body was lying on its back, the right hand was lying
across the breast, and the lett hind and arm were lying by
the side of the body. 1 immediately went in se :reh of a
police-constable, and found ()Le. I brJught him to the spot.
I found that the deceased had upon him a pair of black
trousers opening in front, and a pair of Wellington boots
outside his trousers. There was also a part of a white
shirt on the left arm. I met a police-effic_r and told him
what I had seen, and I accornp enied him to the spot. We
then searched the pockets, and foiled a farthing in the right-
hand pocket 3f the trousers and wrapped in a piece of paper.
Nulling else was found on the body of the deceased,
We searched for the head among the reeds, but could no
find it. The head was cut off across the neck.
The male prisoner said he had no question to ask of the
witness, and the female prisoner naid nothing. She seemed
quite overwhelmed with grief, clutched the rails of the dock
and sobbed convulsively.
Mr Edward John Morris said—l am a surgeon, and re-
side at Plaistow. I was called to see the body of the deceased
at about half-past 11 o'clock last night. I went to the Gra-
ving Dock Hotel in Silvertown. The body was without a
head, and the muscular portion of the neck right down to
the bone had been eaten away by rata, which swarm among
the reeds. My opinion is that a knife and a chopper had
been used in severing the head from the body. There were
several marks where chops had been made in the vertebras,
One blow had partially divided one of the cervicals, and an..
other had completely done so. The flesh of the left hand
had all been eaten away, and that of the right was partially
eaten off. The left shoulder had also been attacked by the
rats, as was shown by the muscular fibr,s. The setae was
the case with the right arm. Taking into consideration the
coldness of the weather and the dry place where the body
was found it is quite possible the deceased might have been
dead four or five days. I examined the chest and abdomen,
and could not find any marks of violence. I saw the clothes
described by the witnesses. The boots were over the ankles
of the trousers. us if he had been walking in the mud. It
was the body of a well-fed muscular man. I have not made
a post mortal). examination.
Henrich Zutch—l am a shoemaker, and live at No 2,
Hoy-street. Last evening, about 8 o'clock, I went to the
Graving Dock Hotel and identified the body from the boots.
Although I bad not heard the name of the deceased, I had
known him for several weeks. He had shown me his boots
and asked if I could do anything in the way of repairing
them. The left sole was worn. He lodged at No 4, Hoy-
street, in the same house as the prisoner Kohl.
Elizabeth Warren, wife of James Warren, labourer, of 3,
Nelson-place, Plaistow, said—The male prisoner used to
lodge at my house, and then he went to Germany. and
when he returned ho married the young woman at the bar.
When he came back from Germany he brought to my house
a young gentleman, who.n we used to call John. This
young man accompanied him from abroad to my house to
lodge. The person whom I believe to have been the de-
ceased lodged at my house for 13 days. He left about a
month ago. He was 21 or 22 years of age, and was a wry
handsome young man. I have seen nothing of him since
he loft my house. He could not speak good English. I
never saw him extravagant. When the deceased was brought
to my house the prisoner said he had £2OO a year, and was
bound to New York. When he first came to my house the
young man gave me six sovereigns to take care of for him,
as he was going out. He also gave me a silver watch, gold
Albert chain, and ring. I returned them all to him, in-
cluding the money, a few days after he had intrusted them
with me. The ring was a large plain gold ring, with a
blank gold shield, without any stone or figure on it. He also
had a gold handkerchief pin, with a piece of red coral in it,
which he left at my house and came for the day afterwards.
I never noticed his linen was marked, He had one coloured
shirt. He had several ether shirts and collars. The collars
hal a mark on them. When he left my house I saw that
he had four sovereigns and some silver in his hand, and
when he came to settle with me he said if he changed
another sovereign he would not have enough money to go
to New-York. I had received 25s from him, and I charged
him £2. The male prisoner came with the young man
when he left. He was also accompanied by two lads and
a German they called " Butcher." The prisoner wished
him to retain the four sovereigns, and both he and the
young man objected to what I had charged. I claimed
15s more than they had paid me, and detained toneoung
man's portmanteau, a box, two pairs of boots ( pair
with laced sides), and two hat boxes, containing a beaver
hat and a felt, narrow brimmed, skull-crowned hat. Ho
also had a large overcoat and a travelling wrappet, red
on one side and black on the other. He had two pairs of
black trousers and a pair of gray ones in the boxes, I gave
the things up on the following day. The German, whom
he called Butcher, paid me the 15s, and I delivered the
goods. I have seen this man Butcher about the marsh. It
was about a month ago that he left, and on a Tuesday. He
offered me 7s 61, which I refused. He said the ship in
which he was to proceed to New York was to sail on the
following Tuesday or Friday—l could not say which.
The prisoner Kohl said he had no question to ask the
witness.
Mr Daniel Howie, superintendent of the K division of
the Metropolitan Police, said—On Tuesday evening, the
Bth inst., about 7 o'clock, I went to the house of Ferdinand
Edward Karl Kohl, the prisoner, at 4, Hoyastreet, Plaistow-
marsh. I there saw the prisoner and his wife, the female
prisoner, and Joseph Williams, her brother. I inquired of
them if a young German was missing from tho house, The

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male prisoner said a young man whom they called John,
and whose acquaintance he (the prisoner) had made during
a recent passage from Hamburg to London, was missing.
He told me the missing young man was a lodger with him
and that he had previously lodged at the house of Mrs
Warren, the last witness, which lodgings he did not like.
He said when he came away from Mrs 'Warren's to lodge
with him he had no money, and had pawned his clothes.
He said that on Thursday last, the 3d inst., he left home
with him in the morning, and went to the London Docks for
the purpose of looking for a ship, but there was no ship there
of the kind they wanted. He then said that after leaving the
London Docks they (pr'soner and the young luau) went into
the upper part of the Commercial-road about 1 o'clock in the
afternoon. Prisoner proceeded into a sugar bakery there,
leaving the young German in the street. On returning to the
street he missed him and made a search after him, but could
not find him, and had not seen him since. He afterwards said
he had been to Silvertowa and seen the body found in the
reeds, and was not sure it was that of " John," as it had
no head. The trousers, be said, were like his. I then
sent the prisoners in a cab, aecampanied by Mr Inspector
Nightingale, to meet me at the Plaistow station.
Henry Lee, a youth about 18. was the next witness. He
said—l live as No. 2, Hu-street, Plaistow-marsh, and am
a labourer. Last Thursday morning, the 31 inst., about 10
o'clock, I was at work at Plaistow, and I saw the male pri-
soner and the young man John, whom I believe to be the
deceased, walking along the river wall, near the sugar-
house, towards Silvertown. That was in the direction from
London. I made a remark to the man who was working
with me that these were the two men whom I had seen at
Zutch's, where I lodged. I have not seen the young man
since. He had on a dark dress and was of fair complexion.
I knew him by sight. I have frequently spoken to the pri-
soner at the bar. It would be about four minutes' walk from
the spot where I saw the deceased and the male prisoner to
the reeds where the body was found. I saw the prisoner in
the afternoon of the same day, and he toll me that the young
man was missing. I replied to him, " I saw you and the
young man this morning about 10 o'clock walking by the
river bank." The prisoner said nothing in reply. He after-
wards told me he had gone to London in the morning to a
sugar-house—that he left the young man outside—that
when he come out the young man was gone, and that when
he returned home he found his clothes also gone.
Sergeant Brigley, 65, K division, was then called. He
said—At about a quarter to two yesterday afternoon I re.
ceived information of this affair. I went to the river bank
opposite the graving-dock on the North Woolwich-road, and
saw the body. There was a mark or indentation in the
soft earth as if where the back of the head had been, and
there was a small portion of the brain on the ground near
the mark where the head had been, and close to where
the neck must have lain. The mark I saw on the earth
would be where the head had rested before it was cut off.
I examined the body, and searched the pockets. in the left
hand trouser pocket I found a farthing wrapped in a piece
of paper. In the other pocket there was a small piece of
paper, upon which there were some German words. There
was a small piece of white shirt lying under the body, by
the left arm. On the shirt was marked "O. 8., 6." I
had the body removed to the Graving Dock Tavern, and
the prisoners were arrested on the charge of being concerned
in the murder of the man. The male prisoner was cautioned
in the usual manner. He said, " I know well where I was
on that —."
The Chairman—Did he not say the hour or eay ?
The Witness—He did not. The prisoner's clothes were
then removed, and a fresh suit given to him.
The Chairman (to the prisoner)—Will you ask this wit-
ness any questions ?
The male Prisoner—No (shaking his head).
The Chairman inquired of the police whether the head of
the dead man had been found.
Mr Superintendent Howie said that the head had been
found at S'o'clock that morning about 30 yards from where
the body was found. They had not had time to have the
head examined, but the medical men would make the usual
post mortem examination in due course.
It was stated that the head was buried a few inches under
the ground, and discovered by Inspector Good, of the
Thames Police, and that there were several rat holes in the
immediate vicinity.
Sergeant Clarke, of the detective department of polio ,
was then called as a witness by the Bench, but stated that
his evidence was incomplete, as he had not had sufficient
time to investigate the matter, and that he hoped his testi-
mony would be postponed.
Atter some brief conversation,
Mr Superintendent Ilowie suggested that, as there was
uo evidence to criminate the female prisoner, she should be
discharged.
Tee Chairman concurred, and said she would be at once
discharged, but with regard to the male prisoner, he would
be remanded to Mori Gaol for further examination.
The prisoner, Karl KOhl, in broken English, was under-
stood to say, " What for ? Can't 4be settled now F.'
The Chairman—You, Kuhl, are charged on suspicion of
having caused the death of the deceased man John Fuhrhop,
and we remand you for further inquiry upon that eh trge.
The female prisoner was carried away in a swoon by her
brother, who fondly kissed her, her mother being also pre-
sent.
The male prisoner was then handcuffed and taken to
Ilford Gaol in a cab, in charge of Inspector Nightingale and
constable 312 K. A large crowd was in the vicinity of the
court, and it was with some difficulty that the prisoner
could be conducted to the cab.

DISCOVERY OF THE HEAD AND THE SCENE
OF THE MURDER.
The circumstances of horror surrounding the perpetration
of the murder and the decapitation of the unfortunate Ger-
man (Fuhrhop), have created such extraordinary excitement
in the neighbourhood of Silvertown, that a number of per-
sons, estimated at 4,00), yesterday went to view the body.
They were in most instances permitted to see the remains,
not only to endeavour to corroborate the identification by
means of the clothes (for the head was found only yesterday),
but also to give an opportunity of ascertaining whether any
person had seen him walking with his murderer towards the
river bank through the marsh on the day of the murder.
Up to a late hour last evening, however, no one had been
found who could add anything material to the testimony of
the boy Lee against the accused, Kohl.
A discovery of some importance was made yesterday
afternoon by some residents in the neighbourhood, and when
the police authorities are made acquainted with it, it will
no doubt lead to the finding of the weapon with which the
crime was perpetrated. It was at first supposed that the
murder was effected on the spot where the headless body
was found, but a careful examination of the ground insti-
tuted towards evening yesterday has disproved this suppo-
sition.
The North Woolwich-road, which runs past the Victoria
Graving Dock, is parallel to the river as it approaches Silver-
town. The quarter of a mile of marsh land which lies be-
tween the road and the Thames, is for the greater part
covered with reeds 7ft. and a half high. A narrow path.
way, not more than 18 inches in width,leads from the direc•
tion of the road through the rushes towards the river. Any
person walking along this track would find on his left hand,
about halfway through, a still narrower path going towards
another part of the river bank, but to get on to it he would
find it necessary to cross a ditch 7ft. wide and three cr four
feet deep, the bottom being covered with thick mud rather
than water. This was the exact spot where the murder was
committed, the body decapitated, and whence mangled re-
mains were conveyed to the place where the headless trunk
was afterwards found, and which is about 15 or 20 yards
further up the second path.
In the course of the search that was being made this little
path, almost entirely obscured by the overhanging of the
tall reeds, was struck upon, and upon the persons coming
to the ditch which has been mentioned, they were horrified
at seeing at the bottom of it a pool of blood 4ft. long by lft.
broad. The marks made by the victim's boots as he stood
in the ditch, evidently with his back to his murderer, and
also the marks of the feet of the murderer when he was lift-
ing up out of it the lifeless body of his victim,were distinctly
disible. A trace of blood was found among the middle of
the rushes from this spot to the place where the body was
carried or dragged, About two-thirds of the distance along
the path was seen a circular patch of blood, such as would
have been caused if the dissevered head had been laid down
there for a moment by its still bleeding on the surface.
The consideration of these facts, and of others to be men-
tioned presently, showed at once how the diabolical crime
had been effected. The murderer and his victim must have
left the road and struck into the first pathway to go towards
the river. One must have walked behind the other, for two
could not have found room to walk abreast. Upon coming
to the ditch which had to be crossed before getting into the
second path, the murdered man without doubt dcecended
into it first. Before he could have got one step egress II:,
evidently received a tremendous blow on the left
temple and over the eye (the marks of this blow are clearly
present on the head), and he was thus thrown backwards
against the slopping bank in a such a manner that the hees
of his boots were driven into the yielding clay at the ditch
bottom. No marks of a struggle are to be found.. Tho
murderer, having stunned his unsuspecting victim by a
blow which broke in the skull, otvieusly continued on the
vantage ground of the bank, and with a knife—a large-
bladed one, as the gashes show—severed the head from the
body. From the large quantity of blood found in the shal-
low pool in the bottom of the ditch and the mere trace of it
along the path, it was evident that the body must have been
iu the ditch a suffie ent time to allow all the blood to drain
from it. No doubt some considerable time was occupied in
hacking the vertebrae of the neck with a knife not particu-
larly sharp. The.deep indentation made by the boots of the
murderer when he stood in the centre of the ditch to lift
out the body of the deceased in order to hide it in the rushes
was quite plain. Having got it upon the further bank, it
partly dragged, partly lifted through the narrow path for