Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-06-13
Thrilling Discovery

The following wonderful story is told by
the London correspondent of the Dublin
Ereniny Mail'-
This is the age of discoveries, and one of
such startling nature has just been made
in an English county that it seems out of
place in the region of sober fact, and TO be-
long purely to the atmosphere of the three-
volume novel; Here are the circumstan-
ces 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 family mansions
which members of the English aristocracy
regard with an affection amounting TO ven
Grafton. The lady, however, being more
continental in her tastes, after a short resi-
dence in the apartments appropriated to her
use, expressed wish to have boudoir in
the vicinity of her bedroom. The noble
earl would gladly have complied with the
request, but upon examination, ii was FOUND
that the rooms, as sometimes happens in an
tique buildings, were SO a~kwardly distrib-
uted that by no conceivable plan of rear
rangement could the desired boudor be fit
ted in. Thereupon it became necessary TO
invoke profe ssional assistance, and an emf
nent architect was summoned from london.
He examined the House narrowly, and said
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there seemed TO be nothing for it but to
build, though at the same time he could not
resist the impression that there must be an
other undiscovered room somewhere in that
wing Of the mansion. The noble earl laugh
ed at the idea, the eldest servants and re.
tainers of the family were questioned, and
declared that they had never heard even a
rumor of its existence. The ordinary meth
DDS Of tapping. &C., were resorted to, but
without effect. Still the architect retained
his conviction, and declared himself ready
to stake his professional reputation on the
result.
The earl at last consented to let the wall:
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made, not only was the room found, but q
sight presented itself which almost defeat:
attempts at description. The apartment
was fitted up in the richest and most luxu.
rious style of one hundred and fifty years
ago. A quantity of lady's apparel lay about
the room, Jewels we're scattered on the dress.
ing-table, and, but for the faded aspect
which everything wore, the chamber might
have been tenanted half an hour previous.
ly. On approaching the bed, the most GU
rious sight of all was seen, and this it is that
affords the only clue to the mystery. The
couch held the skeleton of female, and or
the floor, underneath the bed, half in and
half out lay another skeleton, that Of q man
presenting evident traces OF violence, and
proving that before he expired in that po-
sition, he must have received some dreadful
injury. The secret connected with this
tale of blood has been well kept, for moi
merely had all tradition of the scene faded
away, but even the existence of the room
| itself was forgotten. The survivors proba-
bly, walled up the apartment at the time,
and its contents remained Theoretically seal.
ed up till the present day, when, according
TO The best calculations, after the lapse of a
century apd half, daylight has accident
ally penetrated into this chamber of hor-
rors, which, to the surprise Of all concerned
has been discovered in ohe of the noblesi
mansions in the county Of.