The Mysteries of the Court of London, Vol. 5 — page 361: what you’re looking at

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| mend AE A ae Ad at eR Rents a ay, eS Gein oe 6 Qu Eien 2 SE cI, 848 THE MYSTERIES OF THE COURT. eS aE ae “It is indeed very terrible—very shocking,” ob- night. The peasant, in answer to tho coroner, stated serverl Lady Saxondalo. ‘ It quite makes one. that it was perfectly evident that Mr. Gunthorpo sliuddor,”’ “iand Mr, Eeveril were totally unknown to the two ‘females previous to meeting them thcro, as he rathered@irom the conversation which passed be- tween them at the time/ The lady and her maid took their departure: but né ono inside the cottage at the time had any opportunity of perceiving in . | what direction they proceeded. The two gentlemen aE a eee 2. (=e, Ee aoa = ° Peewee, Cr CIIAPTER LXXIIL THE INQUEST. Ar n publie-house on the outskirts of Gainsborough | waited perhaps tey minutes‘longer, and gave his - nearest Lo the point whence the mournful procession | (she peasant’s) mothe five sovereigns on account of had started with the two dead bodies on the pre- | the kind treatment one of them had expericnced, as ceding night, the coroner’s inquest was holden at provigusly described, at the cottage. It was por mid-day. Astight bo expected, the tragedy had | haps hree quarters of an hour afterwards that Mr. produced the utmost consternation throughout the | Peveril came rushing back with horrified looks, tuwn and neighbourhood; and the public-house bearing the intelligence‘ that tho two females were where the corpses had been deposited, was sur- rounded from an early hour in the morning by a crowd of persons, all anxious to ebtain any ad- ditional particulars that might transpire. = At twelve o'clock, as above stated, the coroner arrived; and the proceedings were opened in the largest room which the public-house contained. A jury was speedily sworn in; and the vafious wit- nesses were kept together in an adjoining apartment, —Mr. Gunthorpe, Deveril, and the peasant being amongst them. The coroner and j bodies, —which were in a third room, and had in the meantime undergone a surgical examination,— commenced the proceedings. The first witness called, was the landloid of an hotel § the town. Io deposed that: the deceased ludy, accompanied by bor maid, héd arrived at hig estublishment abou, three o'clock on the pre- eeding day. They had travelled post frofa Lincoln ; and on the lady's box was the name of Mademoiselle D’Alembert: but she appeared to be an English womnn by ber speech and accent. She had dined by herself in a private room at ‘bout five o'clock, her maid having previously partaken of refrosh- murdered, and ordering him (the peasant) to pro- ceed at once to Gainsborough and give the alarm. William Deveril was the next witness called in. He stated that he had arrived with his friond Mr. Gunthorpe at Gainsborough on the previous day, and thaf in the evenixy they set out along the bank of the river for the purpose of proceeding to Saxon- delo Castle. Ho then described how he and Mr. Gun. thorpe had called at the cottage—liow they met the two deceased fomales there—how one of them had introduced herself as Mademoiselle D’Alembert, of , having viewed tho two | the Itelian Opera —and how she had likewise men- tioned her knowledge of Lord Saxondale and Lord Harold Staunton. Here the coroner asked Deveril (if there were any reason to suppose that the deceased were on their way to Saxondale Castle: but our hero ; could not hasard a conjecture on the subject—rauch less speak with any degree of certainty. He then preceeded to describe how himself and Mr. Gun- thorpe, after leaving the cottage, had heard the pistol-shots and tic scream. There was an interva: | of not more than a fow moments between tho shots; and it wis immediately after the first that the cry was heard,—the inference being that on one female being suddenly shot dead, the other had scredmod | 20 2 ee eee eee —— Pe aes Gee ee =_ ee es ee ee eee oe es ee eee 2 eee © ee eee 2 ee fe ee oe OE a EP ae Ge oo eS s a nents in tho servants’ room of the hotel. At seven | out and the next moment met her doath likewiso, | o'clock Mademoisello D’Alembert had tea; shortly : Then William Deveril detailed how he had sped tc after which she and her servant went out together, ; the cottage to give tkp alarm, and had subsequently Madomoisolle intimating to the landlady that they | rejoined Mr. Guuthorpe to keep watch until the wero going to visit some friends whom she had in | authorities should come. It appeared that they Gainsborough, and that they might not be home ; both noticed that the parcel which the maid had till eleven o'clock. The landlord had noticed that | carried, was missing. the maid carried a large brown paper parcel in her; The coroner having heard Deveril’s ovidence, hand: but what it contained he did not know, and thought that the jury might dispenso with that of had not given the matter g thought at the time. , Mr. Gugthorpe, as it would merely prove a re- From that moment he had not seon the deceased petition of the testimony just ziven. females apaiti: The peasant was the next witness called in. He | stated that at‘about nine o'clock the lady and ber maid approached the cottage where he dwelt with his mother and sister; and as he was standing out- side the door at the time they asked him to bo per- mitted to sit down for a little while, as they had vaken a longer walk than they had at first intended, and were tired. They were invited to enter: they , The magistrate who had procceded to the spot where the murder was committed, was the noxt witness called in; and he deposed to the circum- stance of b summoned thither, and finding the | bodies in the londition in which they were almost im- mediately aft¢-wards removed to the’ public-house at Gainsborough\ He had subsequently superintended the search whith was made about the persons of the deceased, and had seen that their money and their sat down; and such refreshments ag the cottage ; trinkets wore all safe about them—so that the mur- afforded, were offered, of which they partook. Soon : derer or .ourderers had not rifled the victims of afterwards two ‘gentlemen came to the cottage, one ! their property, beyond the large parcel which had having been there before some few days proviously. ! been proved to be missing. Tho peasant then described how Mr. Deveril saved | The head, constable of Gainsborough was next a wonan from drowning on the occasiun to which | examined. ‘He depused that he had visited tne he referred, and how that circumstance had ren- | scene of the tragedy with some of his men on the dered him an inmate of the cottago for.« whole | preceding night, and that he had returned thither we? & ome eee @ -e s ECOMRniclacae SS (CO)