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EXAMINATION OF BOWERS, &C, 67
came in to breakfast, at eight o’clock ; at that time a
conversation took place between him and Spragg, who
acknowledged that he had got up too soon; that he
passed one watch-box and came to another, where the
watchman was so civil as to give him a little pea-straw to
lie on, and a-split sack to cover them over.
Nothing further having transpired in the examination
of these persons confined on suspicion of the murder of
Matthews, excepting Spragg’s being fully committed for
trial, we must defer the continuation of the article to
a future period.
Wonderful instance of the Power of Imagination occur-
ring in a Dream.
.In the winter of 1785, a young man of the name of
William Howgall, about twenty-four years of age, then
servant to Messrs. Seatchherd and Whitaker, Booksellers
in Ave Maria Lane, being in bed, a gentleman sleeping
in the next apartment, was suddenly awakened by the
groans and moaning on the same floor, and was so much
alarmed that he was immediately induced to obtain a
light, it being then about three in the morning, and en-
tering the next room was almost, struck with astonish-
ment on finding the young man between the cieling and
the roof of the house, a considerable aperture being just
made through that and the tester of the bed. Upon
being called to and awokp from his sleep, he was with
much difficulty drawn through the opening which,
though he had made it himself without any assistance
but his hands, he-was for some time totally insensible
of. The situation he was found in was deplorable be-
yond description; the upper part of his body was lace-
rated by the nails, laths, &c. which he had perforated to
a degree truly pitiable. His shirt was literally torn from
his back, and that and himself nearly covered with
blood.
came in to breakfast, at eight o’clock ; at that time a
conversation took place between him and Spragg, who
acknowledged that he had got up too soon; that he
passed one watch-box and came to another, where the
watchman was so civil as to give him a little pea-straw to
lie on, and a-split sack to cover them over.
Nothing further having transpired in the examination
of these persons confined on suspicion of the murder of
Matthews, excepting Spragg’s being fully committed for
trial, we must defer the continuation of the article to
a future period.
Wonderful instance of the Power of Imagination occur-
ring in a Dream.
.In the winter of 1785, a young man of the name of
William Howgall, about twenty-four years of age, then
servant to Messrs. Seatchherd and Whitaker, Booksellers
in Ave Maria Lane, being in bed, a gentleman sleeping
in the next apartment, was suddenly awakened by the
groans and moaning on the same floor, and was so much
alarmed that he was immediately induced to obtain a
light, it being then about three in the morning, and en-
tering the next room was almost, struck with astonish-
ment on finding the young man between the cieling and
the roof of the house, a considerable aperture being just
made through that and the tester of the bed. Upon
being called to and awokp from his sleep, he was with
much difficulty drawn through the opening which,
though he had made it himself without any assistance
but his hands, he-was for some time totally insensible
of. The situation he was found in was deplorable be-
yond description; the upper part of his body was lace-
rated by the nails, laths, &c. which he had perforated to
a degree truly pitiable. His shirt was literally torn from
his back, and that and himself nearly covered with
blood.