, 1841-12-18

'au one quality, which Is not very unuSunl
with quick and Impe,uouS men. he slept. when
re was ASLEEP, like a stone. though i, WAS Of
ten long after his head touched the pillow,
re slumter visited his ewes. 1t was thus
IN the night wh ch | have mentioned; for an
hour or more he lay awake listening to all
he noises of the inn, and there were many.
ut after that he fell into n sleep which seem.
ID us sound as death itself.
We must now take up a new parsonage
IA the drama, and 81 eak "f the Bots Of Tie
nm. who, al an early hour of tie foIlnwin ing
n"rnIng. went Ia the door ni the travellers
room I" awake them, as he had been TODD
AT first he modestlv knocked, hut no answer
heIng returned, he went in and opened the
window shutters. What was his surprise.
however. to find the bed next To the win
dOwS. in which Villain Gore had slept. If
The poor wretch. indeed, had been allowed
L" sleep al all, now vacant, though sadly
tossed and iumhled ahont the pillow and the
hed-cl"tf'es delugad in gore. and MI the SUNS.
in fact. of some terrible act havin. been
committed.
The b "fs looked round l. room and in
TO the other bed; and then quitting the cl an.
Der in haste. told The irndl"d VIA, he Lad
h-held. The laniIn,d. the iandladv, the
chamber'naid and the osllrr, all Instantly
rushed towards the stairs. but The landlord
Stopped the progress OF the osller. bv send
inc him Immediately fer a constable and Il
nei.hbnrinr Justice. The res, of the pariy
Il en- rerurn"d with the Boots 10 The double
hedIed rH,m. whore they had found every
ihing as B mrs had described; aud. moreover.
discovered thai the tnarl and basin which
Frederick Prrv"i had used rhe ninhr before
were stained with blood: and, an perping in
I" The bed. where h.. l:v sound nslrer, hs
fire and pillow We're found Ia he Slluhil,
bloody. " hile his right han and arm, WHICH
was stretched ont above rh" bed clothes. had
n good deal al hl"nd npon The fingers and ~
IN the SHIRT. The lanhlori wisely de'ermin-
ed not 10 wake him TIL the constable cane.
and in the mean time inrIbrr perqu,>ions
were maie. Tire Stairs were COVERED with
drops .,f gore; traces "f the same kind were
met with al the wav through The garden To-
the top uf the f,lnk nbnve The sea; in"tsieps
were seen deeply sunk ia tie pln>hv ground,
rs If n man hravH. h,d passed along: and in
some places long trailing marks were EnunI,
which might very well have been produced
bv n person dragging along n dead body Ia
throw it into the sen below. AT length the
c"ns'ablr arrived: Freierr.k Prevot was
awakened with difficulty, and gaznd round
with a.r"nishmrni. which. If irirned. was GER
iainlv very wclI pu, on. Thai look of as
ioniSh rent changed In The Indignation on
heinr charged with murder OF his friend, and
he had well nigh knocked down the mn
who had made the accusari"n, but he re-
Trained; and what was his horror, on rising
and dressing himself. "a he was told la do,
The pocket book of 'VilIam Gore, marked Il
bloody thumb and finger, was found under
his pillow!
Were we to follow The fashion Of the day.
we should dwell upon this examination before
the magistrates. and his trial before a jury of
his country; but. ior the sake If being singu-
lar. or rather, perhaps. Of going a step even
hev"nd our contemporaries. we will pass
over all ihr painful inrIdentS of his trial. and
dwell upon t c still more painful incidents of
his execuiInn. Yes, reader. upon his pxeru
ton; fur the chain "f cucuuiSlanlIal evidence
was so strong. that the additional facts which
came out on the trial. namely. iha, he had
no money on the preceding night 10 pay the
coachman. that the Pocket-book which he
had pretended was in his p"rtn"nteau could
not be discovered there, and that The cham
ber-maid had heard n MIN =" out and come
in. were quite sufficient TO convince the ju
nv 81 his guilt. Not Il doubt, indeed, re.
manned on the mind of any person hut one.
and that WAS the sister of the murdered man.
the promised bride OF HIM who was about tn
end his days on the scaflrld. She did rot
brli.ve him guilty: she knew well she had
loved HIM long. and il wound have taken evil
dence ten times more strong. even 10 have
raised n doubt in her mind. She openly
and boldly d., clnred her conviction of his in
nocenre: she visited him in prison; size took
leave of him with tenderness and devorinn;
she consoled him with reiterated assurances
that she was as certain of his mnncrnce as
of her own.
The fatal morning dawnrd N length, and
rs u was then the custom Ia execute PERSONS
condemned tor murder in chains. anu us near
the spot whrre TIE deed had been committed
MS possible, the sentence Of Frederick Pre-
vnt declared that he was To lie hung in Chains
upon the moor, about half n mile from the inn
where he had passed hat inausP'cions night.
The PRISM in which he had hee confined was
at some distance and though the time appoint
I'd for his execution Was carly in the day.
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