Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1862-06-05

THRILLING Discovery The following won.
derful story is told by the London correspon-
dent of the Doublin Evening Mail -
This is the age of discoveries, and one of
such q startling nature has jnst been made in
an English county that it seems out of place
in the region of sober fact and 10 belong pure.
ly TO the atmosphere of the three -volumed no.
vel. Here are the circumstances the names
for the moment am not at liberty to Indicate.
The Earl of - married not long ago. and
brought his bride home to one of the old fam.
lily mansions which members of the English
arIstocracy regard with An affection amounting
to veneration. The lady, however, being more
continental in her taste, after short residence
in the apartment appropriated to her use, ex-
pressed wish to have boudoir in the vicini-
ty of her bedroom The noble Earl would
gladly have complied with the request, but up.
on examination, it was found that rooms, as
sometimes happens in antique buildings were
so awkwardly distributed that by no concciva-
BILE plan of re, arrangement could the desired
boudoir be fitted it, Thereupon it became ne
cessary to invoke professional assistance and
an enlaent architect was summoned from Lon
don. He examined the house narrowly. and
said there seemed to be nothing for it but to
build, though at the same time be could not re-
sist the impression that there must be another
undiscovered room somewhere in that wing of
the mansion. The noble Earl laughed at the
leea the oldest servants and retainers of the
family were questioned, aud declared that they
never had heard even rumor of its existence
The ordinary methods OF tapping, &C., were
resorted to- but without effect Still. the ar
chtect retained his conVctiea, a1d declared
himself ready to stake his professional reputa-
ton on the result. The Earl at last consented
to let the walls be bored, and, when the open
ing had been made, not only was the room
found, but sight presented itself which al.
most defeats attempts at description. The
apartment was fitted up in the richest and
most luxurious style of $50 years ago. 4
quantity of adys apparel Jay abont the room,
jewels were scattered on the dressing table,
and bat for the faded aspect which everything
wore, the chamber glisht have been tenanted
half an hour previously, On approaching the
bed the most curious sight Of all vas seen, and
this is which affords the only clue to the mys.
tery. The couch held the skeleton of female,
and en- the acor, underneath the bed, half in
end half cut, lag another skeleton, that of
man, presenting evident traces of violence and
proving that, before he expired in that posi-.
ton, h. must have received some dreadful in-
curry. The secret connected with this tale Of
blood has been we'll kept, for not merely had
the tradition Of the scene faded away, but even
the existance of the Eoom forgotten, The sur
vivors probably walled up the apartment at
the time, and its contents remained hermeticai-
ly sealed up till the present day, when accord.
ing to the calculations, after the lapse of
century and a half, daylight has accidentally
penetrated into this chaRsbe of horrors, Which
to the surprise of all concerned has been dis
covered in one Of the noblest mansions in the
coanty of -.