The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-04-28

man and revealed the fact that her husband
had been associated with three other men in
coming base money, which she had been fire.
quenty employed to put off, and was in
| trusted with the whole secret. One of these
| persons hired himself to Du Moulin as a kind
of footman and porter, and being provided
by the gang with false keys, had disposed of
very considerable sum of bad money by
opening his masters escritoire and leaving it
there in the stead of an equal number of good
pieces, which he took out. The men were
taken the same day, and at their Iodgin gs a
great quantity of bad money, and many in
struments for coming were found. Upon
this discovery Du Moulin's execution was
suspended, and little further inquiry de-
veloped the fact that the damnatory tools
found in his desk had been placed there by
the foOtman who, when the officers came to
search for evidence against his master on the
charges brought by Harris and his associates,
thought they were after him and got the
eliminating implements out Of the way of
doing him harm.
THE HIGHwAYMAN's sCAPEGOAT.
In the year 1872 near Hull, gentleman
was stopped late in the evening, about seven
miles from the town, bya single highwayman
with a mask on his face, who robbed him of
a purse containing twenty guineas. The
highwayman rode off az full speed, and the
gentleman, agitated by what had passed, rode
only two miles further, and stopped at the
Bell Inn, kept by Mr.. James BIunel. He
related to several persons the fact of his hav-
ing been robbed, to which he added that
when he travelled he always gave his gold a
peculiar mark, and that every guinea in the
purse taken from him was thus marked
The gentleman had not long finished his
supper when Mr.. BruEell came into the par
lor where he was. and informed him that he
had waiter, one John Jennings, who had
of late been full of money, and very extrava-
CANT. Long before dark that day he had
sent out Jennings to change guinea for him;
the man had only come back since the arrival
of the traveller saying he could not get
change, and, seeing Jennings to be in liquor
he had sent him off to bed, determined to
discharge him in the morning. Mr.. Brunel
continued to say that when the guinea was
brought back to him, it struck him that it
was not the same which he had sent out for
change, there being on the returned one a
mark, which he was very sure was not upon
the other he unluckiIy paid away the gum
ca to a man who lived at some distance, and
who had now gone home but he suggested
that Jennings clothing be searched.
In the slumbering sOt's pockets were found
the purse and nineteen marked guneas. He
was hanged at Hull, and year afterward
BrCnell himself was apprehended for rob.
bing a guest, and found to have been guilty
Of many highway robberies, among them that
of the twenty guineas. After robbing the
traveller, he had got home before him by a
short cut ard rapid riding, and paid one of
the guineas away to a man to whom he owed
a small bill. AfteTward he heard with con-
sternation that the coins were marked, and
the thought Of accusing and sacrificing poor
jennings who was drunk enough to be an
easy victim to his own destruction suggested
itself, and was fatally carried out.
THE VILLAGE INN MURDER.
The famous case of Jonathan Bradford
will bear retelling. Bradford kept an inn in
Oxfordshire, on the London road to Oxford.
He bore a respectable character Mr. Hayes
a gentleman of fortune, put up al Bradford's
He there joined company with whom he sup
ped, and in conversation unguardedly men,
toned that lie had then about him a cOnsid-
cradle sum of money. In due time they
retired to their respective chambers, the
gentlemen to two bedded room, leaving a
candle burning in the chimney corner. Some
hours after they were in bed, one of the gen.
tlemen being awake, heard deep groan in
an adjoining chamber, and awole his friend
The sound increasing, as of one dying and in
pain, they proceeded to the next chamber
from whence the groans seemed to come
hninu nj 1iUflt in, ba
room and a man weltering in his blood in the
bed, with another standing over him with a
dark lantern in one hand and a knife in the
other. The man seemed as much petrIfed
as themselves but his terror carried with it
all the appearance of guilt.
The gentlemen soon discovered that the
murdered person was the stranger with
whom they had that night supped, and that
the man who was standing over him was their
host They seized Bradford and disarmed
him of his knife, and charged him with being
the murderer. He positively denied the
crime, and asserted that he came there with
the same humane intentions as themselves
for that, hearings noise, which was succeed
ed by groaninR, he got out of bed, struck
light armed himself with a knife for his de-
tense, and had that minute entered the room
before them.
He was found guilty in spite of his pretes-
tations, and expiated the crime. Long af-
terward it was discovered that the real mur-
derer was Hayes footman.
But there was a species of poetic justice
about Bradford's execution after all. He
had actually been on his way to kill his guest
when he discovered that some one had
reached that end before him.
1.-THE FELLOW THAT LOOKS LIKE Me-
Another case, curious by reason of the
mistake in identity involved was that of
Thomas Geddely, who lived as a waiter with
Mrs. Hannah Williams, who kept public
house at York. and was deemed in wealthy
circumstances. One morning her desk was
found broken open and robbed and Thomas
Geddely disappearing at the same time, no
doubt was entertained as to the robber
About twelve month after a man calling
himself James Crow came to York. and
worked few days for precarious subsist-
ence in carrying goods as porter. Many
accOsted him as Thomas Geddeley. He de-
clared he did not know them, and that his
name was James Crow. and that he never
was at York before But this was held as
merely trick to save himself from the con-
sequences of the robbery.
His mistress was sent for, and in the midst
of many people instantly singled him out and
called him by name (Thomas Geddely). He
abSOlufelv a affirmed that ba was not Thomas