The daily gazette., 1880-02-13

and to sleep with the younger childre
at the further end of The house. whic
was not her usual chamber.
Aster she had gone to bed, the door {
her chamber was locked on the outside
and between one and Two O'Clock in th
morning she heard heavy fall, whic
shook the room. Her mistress unloeA a,
the door OF her chamber in the morning
and when she went down she foun,
Sewell and lis wife and Mosef Drayn
sittipg BY the fire drinking and yer,
merry. They had not, ishe believed
been In bed all night, nor had SewelI'
two eldest daughters. Not seeing tb,
| gentleman who had occupied the hes
chamber, she inquired, after some time
whether he had gone. Her mistress re-
plied In the affirmative; and gave her q
groat, which she said the gentleman had
left for her. She then offered to arr a Re
the chamber in which he had slept, but
was told it was already done.
The door of that chamber was kent
locked for more than Two months after
ward, and only Sewell and his wife en-
tered it; aud on witness inQuiring the
reason, her mistress answered that they
had no guests fit for the room, as it was
kept for gentlemen. One day Sewell
sent her to fetch his cloak from the
clothes chest in ais chamber, and she
discovered therein the gentleman's
clothes and cloak-bag; but she said moth
log about what she had seen. About two
months afterward, her mistress sent her
into the chambe in which the gentle
man had slept, to fetch something; when
II being the first time she had been in
the room since he had been locked MP,
she made a search, and upon the tester
OF the bed she found the gentleman's hat
sword and boots. Those she carried
down stairs, saying ~ her mistress: You
SAID that the gensleman went to London
by the coach; did he 20 without clothes,
or did you lend him some? for l saw his
clothes in masters chest, and these
things are his, too"
Her mistress made no reply, but Mo-
ses Drayne, who was present, that she
he'd, for the things belonged to him.
"You are foRuei" returned the witness,
~ am sure they were the gentlemans.
L dont't know whose they are now"
her mistress then slapped her face, and
angry words ensuing between them,
broke her head in three places, SO that
the blood ran down her neck. Upon this
thew ess exclaimed, "Do you mean
to murder me, Is you nave the gentle-
man?' and Sewell, hearing these words,
came 10, aud persuaded her to hold her
tongue and keep quiet.
Two other witnesses deposed that be-
ween one and Two in the morning, at
which time Mary Kendall had been
alarmed by a heavy fall, they heard a
noise in the White House. and a mans
vol ce, crying, "Win you rob me of my
money, aud murder me, 700? If you take
my money, spare my nfei' Then they
head something fall very heavily, and
afterward noise as of furniture being
moved about.
Other evidence sho wed that, shortly
siter the Tune when these incidents oC-
ourred, .Drayne had lent sixty poundslSo
the labdIady OF the "Grey hOund,n at
Chelmsford, though it was known that
previously he had no money at all; and
that he had garments resem bling those
of the missing man dyed liver color and
gray hat dyed black, by a dyer at Mod
sam. Ii was also shown that Sewells
circumstances had improved suddenly
and unaccountably about the same time,
and that he had bought ruined malt
house, AID rebnilt H., and often paid
forty pounds az a lime tor barley though
previously he had been so poor that he
could obtain ouly one barrel of ale at
time, aud paid his rent every six weeks
because his landlord would not trust
him quarter. His wife and daughters
also dressed much better after that time,
and frequently changed gold.
Upon this evidence, Dray ne was found
guilty; and few days after bis convic-
tlon he Was hanged in front of the coun-
ty Jail.