Year: 1862

The following wonderful story is told
by the London correspondent to the Dub
lin Evening Mail -


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 cir
cumstar ces-the names for the moment
[ am not at liberty to Indicate The Earl
Of morried not long ago, and brought
his bride home to one of the old family
mansions which members of the English
aristocracy regarded with an affection
amounting to veneration. The lady, how
ever, being more continental in her tastes.
after a short residence in the apartments
appropriated to her use, expressed a wish
to have a boudoit in the vicinity of her
bed room. The noble Earl would gladly
have complied with the request, but, upon
examination, it was found that rooms, as
sometimes happens in antique buildings,
were so awkwardly distributed that by no
conceivable plan of Encouragement could
the desired bcudoir be fitted in. There
upon 1t became necessary to invoke profes
slonal assistance, and an eminent architect
was summoned from London He exam
lned the house narrowly, and said there
seemed to be nothing for it but to build
though at the same time he could not re.
slst the impression that there must be an
other undiscovered room somewhere in that
wing of the mansion. The noble old Earl
laughed at the idea; the eldest servants
and retainers ofthe family were questioned
and declared that they never heard even
rumOr Of its existence. The ordinary
methods Of tapping, &c, were restored to,
but without effect. Still the architect re-
tanned his conviction and declared himself
ready to stake his professional reputation
on the result


The Earl at last consented to the walls
being borded, and, when the opening had
been made, not only the room wa$ found,
but sight presented itself which almost
defeats attempts at description. The apart
mert was fitted up in richest and most lux
urious style Of l30 years ago \ 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, the chamber hi ght have been ten
anted half an hour previously. On ap-
preaching the bed the most curic US sight
of all was seen, and this it is which affords
the only clue to the mystery. The couch
held the skeleton of female and on the
floor underneath the bed, half in half out,
lay another skeleton, that of man, pre-
senting evident traces of violence, and pro-
wing that, before he expired in that posi-
ton, he must have received some dreadful
injury.


The secret connected with this tale of
blood has been we'll kept, for not merely
had all tradition of the scene faded away,
but even the existence of the room itself
was forgotten. The survivors, probably,
walled up the apartment at the time, and
its contents have been hermetically sealed
up till the present day, when according to
the best calculations, after the lapse of
century and half, daylight has acciden-
tally penetrated into this chamber of hor-
rors, which to the surprise of all concerned
has been discovered in one of the noblest
mansions in the county Of.