The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-20 00:00:00

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dLaiySl:lllaigshßsoo.—Mks'AelElter. tßahnitedAlipDupub°llilllßAerN6,nDkTH
lnamed Charles Robinson
Empson, formerly of Beverley, and now of Hull, applied
The bankrupts debts
the course of his afewraanhist
tdaisich27a6rglesaf.r7oriud.c;uasntoddyin.
exami-
nation it transpired that, in the year 1860, he engaged
Miss E, Braddon, the popular authoress of " Lady
Audley's Secret" and "Aurora Floyd," to write a novel
for him, to be entitled "'Three Times Dead, or the Secret
of the Heath.' Miss Braddon was at this time an
actress at the Queen's Theatre, Hull, and played under
the name of Miss Seyton. She wrote the introductions to
the pantominats, and several odes which were delivered
on public occasions. This brought her into notice, and
owchc silei o she
el
poems,
wasstaying at Beverley Parks she published
which induced Mr. Empson, the bank-
rupt, to enter into an agreement with her to write him a
novel. " Three Times Dead" was Miss Braddon's first
" great literary (MO," and although it was highly sensa-
tional, and above £2OO was expended in getting it out, the
work proved a failure, and to this cause Mr. Empson partly
attributed his bankruptcy, Since 1860 Miss Braddon has
been in London, and what success her literary efforts have
achieved is matter of public notoriety.—Mr. Judge Baines
said if Miss Braddon had made £B,OOO out of her works she
could surely afford to assist the man who had published her
first work, and who had become bankrupt partly through
doing so.—Mr. Empson said he had not the slightest ex-
pectations from Miss Braddon. The cause of the failure of
" Three, Times Dead" was that London publishers invari-
ably attempted to crush works published in the provinces.
bankrupt,orde rof ihs
ceh awr ga es
a—nlow'heedretobpeiansgs
hniao
eoxpapmeisniatitoiona,toantdhean
was granted. , •
EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY.—On tne 16th May
last the premises known as the Gaer, near Newport,
Monmouthshire, were burglariously entered, and the will
of the then recently deceased owner, Mr. Thomas Powell,
an eminent colliery proprietor in South Wales,several shares
in local works, and other documents, were stolen. A reward
of £lOO was offered for the recovery of the will, but without
effect, till last week, when a mysteriously worded °cilium-
nication was received from an anonymous correspondent,
stating that if a lady of the Powell family would attend at
a certain gate on the Geer property, and there hold a con-
ference with the writer, the missing will and other docu-
ments should be restored intact, on payment of the promised
reward. An interview accordingly took place between a
supposed lady and the anonymous correspondent ; but £125
were demanded as the price for the restoration of the will,
and that sum being refused the conference terminated. A
second arrangement was made by letter for a meeting en
Monday night, but this also went off unsatisfactorily. A
th'rd arrangement was made for Wednesday night, but in
this the services of the police were engaged, and it resulted
in the capture of a young man, named Edward Gill, aged
18, son of a picture-frame maker of Newport, after a des-
perate struggle with Sergeant Hale, of the county consta-
bulary. On searching the ground where the encounter took
place on Thursday morning the whole of the missing pro
perty which had been so mysteriously stolen from the Geer
was discovered. Gill was taken before the magistrates on
Thursday, when some prelimivary evidence was adduced,
and the prisoner was remanded till this day.