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ACCOUNT OF THE COCK LANE GHOST.
the coffin, which was taken from under the others, and
easily seen to be the same, as there was no plate or in-
scription. As a farther satisfaction to Mr. Kempe, the
coffin was opened in his presence, and the body found
in it.
Other persons, in the mean time, were taking different
steps to find out where the fraud, if any, lay. The girl
was removed from one place to another, and was said to
be constantly attended with the usual noises, though
bound and muffled hand and foot, and that without any
motion in her lips, and when she appeared to be asleep ;
nay, they were often said to be heard in rooms at a con-
siderable distance from that where she lay.
She was at last removed to the house of a gentleman,
where her bed was tied up in the manner of a hammock,
about a yard and a half from the ground, and her hands
and feet extended as wide as they could be without injury,
and fastened with fillets for two nights successively, during
which no noises were heard.
The next day being pressed to confess, and being told,
that if the knocking and scratching were not heard any
more, she with her father and mother would be sent to
Newgate; and half an hour being given her to consider,
she desired she might be put to bed, to try if the noises
would come. She lay in bed this night much longer than
usual, but there were no noises. This was on a Sa-
turday.
Being' told on Sunday, that the ensuing night only
would be allowed for a trial, she concealed a board about
four inches broad, and six long, under her stays ; this
board had been used to set the kettle upon. Having got
into bed she told the gentlemen she would bring Fanny at
six the next morning.
The master of the house and one of his friends, be-
ing, however, informed by the maids, that the girl had
take n
ACCOUNT OF THE COCK LANE GHOST.
the coffin, which was taken from under the others, and
easily seen to be the same, as there was no plate or in-
scription. As a farther satisfaction to Mr. Kempe, the
coffin was opened in his presence, and the body found
in it.
Other persons, in the mean time, were taking different
steps to find out where the fraud, if any, lay. The girl
was removed from one place to another, and was said to
be constantly attended with the usual noises, though
bound and muffled hand and foot, and that without any
motion in her lips, and when she appeared to be asleep ;
nay, they were often said to be heard in rooms at a con-
siderable distance from that where she lay.
She was at last removed to the house of a gentleman,
where her bed was tied up in the manner of a hammock,
about a yard and a half from the ground, and her hands
and feet extended as wide as they could be without injury,
and fastened with fillets for two nights successively, during
which no noises were heard.
The next day being pressed to confess, and being told,
that if the knocking and scratching were not heard any
more, she with her father and mother would be sent to
Newgate; and half an hour being given her to consider,
she desired she might be put to bed, to try if the noises
would come. She lay in bed this night much longer than
usual, but there were no noises. This was on a Sa-
turday.
Being' told on Sunday, that the ensuing night only
would be allowed for a trial, she concealed a board about
four inches broad, and six long, under her stays ; this
board had been used to set the kettle upon. Having got
into bed she told the gentlemen she would bring Fanny at
six the next morning.
The master of the house and one of his friends, be-
ing, however, informed by the maids, that the girl had
take n