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cepton of the hat, that Of the missing
man being grey and on the widow no.
ticing this point Of difference, Drayne
changed color several times, and never
looked her in the face afterward. He
broke of the conversation with the re-,
mark that Mary Kendall, who had been
a servant Mt the "White Horse at the
time, could give her more information
than he could; but he could not tell her
where Mary Kendall was then to be found.
Drayne was thereupon apprehended
on suspicion of having been concerned
in the murder aud committed to the
county Jail. Sewel's widow died before
the assizcs of 1868 came on, and consid
erable difficulty was experienced in trac-
ing out Mary Kendall, but she was found
in time to give evidence against Drayne.
Her testimony was that, on the day
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the missing gentleman stopped at the
inn, she had been to Kilden to SEQ her
father, and On her return at night her
mistress desired her to put clean sheet
on tho bed in the best chamber. On go
ing into the room with the sheets she
found Sewell and his wife there, and the
gentleman standing with his back to the
fire and his hands behind him. He drank
her health, gave her q glass of beer,
ssked her whether she was the landlords
daughter or his servant, and desired her
to bring him napkin to make q night
cap of. Seweil and his wife supped with
the gentleman, who, in the presence Of
the witness, gave bis cloak-bag to the
former, observing that it contained near
ly six hundred pounds, besides docu.
ments of considerable value. Her mis-
tress then babe her so to bed and to
sleep with the younger children at the
further end of the house, which was not
her usual chamber.
After she had gone to bed, the door OF
her chamber was locked on the outside
and between one and two in the morn.
ing she heard a heavy fall, which shook
the room. Her mistress unlocked the
door of her chamber. in the morning,
and when she went down she found Sew.
ell and his wife and Moses Drayne sit.
ting by the fire drinking and very merry
They had not, she believed, been in bed
all night, nor had Sewell's two eldest
daughters. Not seeing the gentleman
who had occupied The best chamber, she
inquired, after some time, whether he
had gone. Her mistress replied in the
affirmative, and gave her q groat, which
she said the gentleman had left her
She then offered to arrange the chamber
in which he had slept, hut was told il
was already done.
The door Of that chamber was kept
locked for moro than two months after
ward, and only Sewell and his wife en-
tered it and on witness in1nirlng the
reason, her mistress ans vered that they
had no guests ft for the room, as it WAS
kept for gentlemen. One day Sewell
sent her to fetch his cloak from the
clothes-chest in his chamber, and she
discovered therein the gentleman
clothes and clOak-bag but she said
nothing about what she had seen. About
two months afterward her mistress sent
her into the chamber in which the gen.
tleman had had slept to fetch something
when, it being the first time she had
been in the room since it had been lock
ed up, she made search, and upon the
tester of the bed fonnd o gentleman's
hat, sword and boots. Those she carried
down stairs, saying to her mistress
"You said that tho gentleman went tc
London by the coach; did he go with
out clothes, or did you lend him some
for saw his clothes iu masters chest
and these things are his, too
Her mistress made no reply, but Moses
Drayne, who was present, told her tina
she lied, for the things belonged to him
"You are rogue" returned the witness
81 am sure they were the gentleman's
| don't know whose they are now" He
mistress then slapped her face, and angr!
words ensued between them broke he
head in three places, so that the b!oot
ran down her neck. Upon this the wit
ness exclaimed, "Do you mean to murde
me, as you have the gentleman !" ant
Scwell hearing these words, came in
and persuaded her to hold her topgu
and keep quiet.
Two other witnesses teposed that be
tween one and two in the morning, a
which time Mary Kendall had bee
alarmed By heavy fall, they heard
noise in the "White Horse and man
voice crying, "Will you rob me of m.