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!48 LONG CONCEALED MURDER.
Mr. Turner gave in evidence what you have read be-
fore, concerning the finding of the murdered body ; and;
according to the judges’ order, he brought the scull into
court, where, by their directions, Moses Drayne, the pri-
soner, was bid to take it up ; but he trembled so much;
that be could hardly hold it in his hand.
Memorand.—“ There was a boy that served in Sewell’s
house at the time of the murder, and Sewell falling angry
with him, carried him up stairs, and tied him to a bed-
post, where he whipped him with a cart whip unmerci-
fully, that he cried so vehemently, that the maid, Mary
Kendall, came up and got him at liberty ; when she heard
him say, ‘ that it was well for him she came, or else his
master would have murdered him, as he did the gentleman,
when he blooded him into the hogs’ pail.’ And the boy
said likewise, he had heard ‘ that the gentleman Was knocked
on the side of the head with a pole axe, and afterwards his'
throat was cut by his mistress, with the help of her daughter
Betty.’ These circumstances were proved at the trial by
several persons ; and it seems the rumour had been spread
in tire town by means of this boy. In some short time
after this boy was sent to Barbadoes, and sold to a mer-
chant that lived near Billingsgate, at whose house Mrs.
Kidderminster was to enquire for him. This matter relat-
ing to the boy’s seeding away, was discovered by the ho-
nest diligence of Mr. Talcott, the coroner, who directed
Mrs. Kidderminster to trace this matter, and who hath the
notes relating to it.”
There were two women, one of them a washerwoman of
that town, and the other a Quaker, that lived next house
to Mr. Sewell, who both gave evidence at the trial. The
washerwoman was going by the house very early, between
one and two in the morning, to wash m the town ; and
the Quaker was sitting up for her husband, who was not
then come home, They both of them made oath, “ That
about
Mr. Turner gave in evidence what you have read be-
fore, concerning the finding of the murdered body ; and;
according to the judges’ order, he brought the scull into
court, where, by their directions, Moses Drayne, the pri-
soner, was bid to take it up ; but he trembled so much;
that be could hardly hold it in his hand.
Memorand.—“ There was a boy that served in Sewell’s
house at the time of the murder, and Sewell falling angry
with him, carried him up stairs, and tied him to a bed-
post, where he whipped him with a cart whip unmerci-
fully, that he cried so vehemently, that the maid, Mary
Kendall, came up and got him at liberty ; when she heard
him say, ‘ that it was well for him she came, or else his
master would have murdered him, as he did the gentleman,
when he blooded him into the hogs’ pail.’ And the boy
said likewise, he had heard ‘ that the gentleman Was knocked
on the side of the head with a pole axe, and afterwards his'
throat was cut by his mistress, with the help of her daughter
Betty.’ These circumstances were proved at the trial by
several persons ; and it seems the rumour had been spread
in tire town by means of this boy. In some short time
after this boy was sent to Barbadoes, and sold to a mer-
chant that lived near Billingsgate, at whose house Mrs.
Kidderminster was to enquire for him. This matter relat-
ing to the boy’s seeding away, was discovered by the ho-
nest diligence of Mr. Talcott, the coroner, who directed
Mrs. Kidderminster to trace this matter, and who hath the
notes relating to it.”
There were two women, one of them a washerwoman of
that town, and the other a Quaker, that lived next house
to Mr. Sewell, who both gave evidence at the trial. The
washerwoman was going by the house very early, between
one and two in the morning, to wash m the town ; and
the Quaker was sitting up for her husband, who was not
then come home, They both of them made oath, “ That
about