Year: 1862

The following wonderful story is told by
the London correspondent of the Dublin
Erening Mda:-


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 belong
purely to the atmosphere of the three-volume
novel; Here are the circumstances: 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 afiec-
ton amounting TO yeneration. The lady,
however, being more continental in her tastes,
after short residence in the apartments APP
propriated 10 her use, expressed wish to
have a bourdoir I'm the vicinity of her bedroom.
The noble Earl would have gladly complied
with her request, but, upon examination, 1t
was found that the rooms, as sometimes hap
pens IN antique buildings, was so awkwardly
distributed that by no conceivable plan of re-
arrangement could the desired bourdoir be
fitted in. Therupon it became necessary to
invoke professional assistance, and an eminent
architect was summoned from London. He
examined the house narrowly, and said there
seemed to be nothing for it but to build,
though at the same time he could not resist
the impression that there undiscovered
room somewhere In that wing of the mansion.
The noble Earl laughed at the idea; the eld-
est servants and retainers of the mansion were
questioned, and declared that they never
heared even a rumor of its existence. The
ordinary methods of tapping, &C., were re-
sorted to, but without effect. Still, the archi-
tect retained his conviction, and declared
himself ready TO stake his professional repu-
tation the result. The Earl at last consented
TO let the walls be bored and when the open
ing had been made, not only was the room
found, but sight presented itself which al
most defeats attempts at description. The
apartment was fitted up in the richest and most
luxurious style of $50 years ago. A quantity
of lady's apparel lay about the room, jewels
were scattered on the dressing-table, and, but
for the faded aspect which everything wore,
athe chamber might have been tenanted half
an hour previously. On approaching the bed
the most curious sight of all was seen, and
this it is which furnishes the only clue to the
mystery. The couch held the skeleton of a
female, and on the floor, underneath the bed,
half in and half out, lay another skeleton,
that OF man, presenting evident traces OF
violence, and proving that, before he expired
in that position, he must have received some
dreadful injury. The secret connected with
this tale of blood has been well kept for not
merely had all tradition of the scene faded
away, but even the existence of the room
itself had been forgotten. The survivors
probably walled up the apartment at the time,
and its contents remained Theoretically sealed
up till the present day, when, according to the
best calculations after the lapse OF a century
and a half, daylight has accidentally penetra-
ted into this chamber of horrors, which to the
surprise of all concerned, has been discovered
in one OF the noblest mansions in the county
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