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and await our pleasure. But, here JUS
tice Danforth looked sternly at his kins-
man, who strove, but in vain, to meet
his look, 'as for my kinsmsn there, the
punishment be deserves is much g. gleater,
since be has. it seems, brought reproach
both upon lis father that was my cousin,
and disgrace on his own head. Speak,"
said the justice, sternly, as he turned to
the Indian. Who was it you saw III John
Winslow's feld2 You s&ore twas Mar
tin Lee here"
The Indian crouched; he looked quickly
from one to the other, and, seeing scorn
in their faces, suddenly stood erect. I
lied. He," pointing to Giles, would
have killed me-"
Then it was Giles Ellisyou saw in the
field"
Joe nodded, gravely.
ITO perjury and suborning witnesses
YOU have added q crime which must be
e1piated on the gallows, Giles Ellis,
said Justice Danforth. But you have
said I am an upright and impartial
Judge, and so I charge you to prepare
within one week to make answer to the
charges brought against you, in the pres
euce Of the people of s..sm. As for you.
Dorothea Lee and Janet. you are free to
accompany US to Salem"
So saving, the justices, without further
speech, departed from Ipswich jail, fol-
lowed by the Lees, Arthur Proctor, his
uncle, and Tom Jones walking after
them.
The news spread from Ipswich to Salem
in advance Of them.
Strange as it ma seem. when the Lees
were well housed again, and Martin Lee
rejoiced at the recovery Of his diamonds,
which we're found concealed in Globe
Inn, where the landlord and his wife had
hoped they would never be discovered,
there was not one in Salem that did not
openly rejoice at their release, and, judg-
ing from their own testimony, many had
predicted it.
And now that there was nothing to pre-
vent it, and as all the country knew they
we're betrothed, Arthur Proctor and Janet
Lee were speedily married.
The morning after their marriage, word
was brought to Salem from Ipswich Of
the death of Daniel and Grizzle Meade.
The Judges set day for their trial; the
end promised to be speedy. The prison.
ers, upon leaning that the diamonds
were found, no longer denied the charge
that they had appropriated the money
Martin Lee had placed under his pillow,
in his purse, as we'll as the silk bag in
which he carried his diamonds. He tes-
tilted that he had in the purse upwards
of sixty guipeas and notes to the value OF
eighty pounds" Moreover, it was now
made plain to all that the counterpart to
the curiously made purse-and the only
one of which anybody had any knowl.
edge-was in the possession Of Janet
Lee, present male to her by Martin
Lee before he made his last voyage. His
own had never been out Of his possession
snve in the interval covering tue time he
was wrecked, and a prisoner in Africa.
In the meantime it lay in the hanus of
jeweler in Liverpool. The shrewdness
Arthur Proctor displayed in obtaining
from John Lee Janet's purse, and pro.
dncing it in the presence OF the landlord
of Globe Inn and his wife, thereby
obtaining the first clue that led
to their exposure, was commented
upon moro than the exhuming Of the
remains Of the landlords son. These
things being freely commented upon in
the presence Of Grizzle Meade and her
husband, dreading the scorn they knew
they would be subjected to during pub
lie trial for their crimes, they mustered
sufficient coulage to hang themselves in
Ipswich Jail. When their fellow prison.
ers awoke one morning. they beheld, in
the gray light, two forms hanging against
the prison walls. When Ezra Easily be-
held them. he fell in a ht, and when he
revived was simpleton, and died a'sim-
pleton. Ann Bigger was detained many
months 10 Ipswich Jail.
As for Giles Ellis, he presented pitia-
BILE spectacle during his trial, which took
place within fortnight, and when he
was hanged on Wills Hill twas said no
man or woman betrayed such q craven
spirit as no who wantonly killed his
neighbor's horse and sheep and conspired
to cast the blame upon On innocent man.
Tradition says Martin Lee and Tom
Jones, having more than suf6ced theiI
wants, give up the sea, and settled down
to their groa and their comfort, to en-
ploy their olrn language, in Salem.
The Globe Inn changed hands repeat
edly, but it never throve. From public
house it becnme workshop. Years after
the incidents here related took place, it
was pointed ont as the scene Of the most
striking tragedies to be found in the rec
ords Of Salem.
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