ance of blood on the blade, and it was conjectured that such traces, had there been any, must have been burnt off. There were no fractures, or marks of violence on the doors, either of the ante-chamber, the chamber, or any of the leading doors. All these doors were fastened on the inside by a latchet, opened by the same key. All the lady's money and jewels, or what was considered to be all, was found in order, without any appearance of having been visited, though it was of great amount; and in her pocket were found eighteen pistoles in gold, from which circumstances it was judged that the murderer had no design to rob.

The two servant girls were interrogated on the spot (by the officers of justice), as well as an old servant of the deceased, named Le Brun, who gave an account of what he had done on the evening of the night preceding. He stated, that after having seen the lady to her chamber, he conversed with the servant girls, on the steps of the door; that he afterwards went below into the kitchen, took the large key to shut the front door, put it on the table, sat down before the fire to warm himself, and fell insensibly to sleep; that when he awoke, he went and shut the front door, which he found open, took the key back to his chamber, and went to bed. He believed that he had slept more than one hour before he shut the door.

The Lieutenant-criminel caused Le Brun to be searched. The key of his office, as chief servant, was found upon him, with another “a passe par tout," or master-key, with very wide wards, and which opened, at the half_turn, the latch of the lady's room. It was ascertained she usually slept with the latch of the door in this state. This key formed the strongest circumstance against Le Brun. He was not kept in the room where he was examined, and the napkin made up in the form of a night-cap was sent for, and placed upon his head. It appeared to the Lieutenant-criminel to fit Le Brun exactly, and he was sent to prison. On the next day, being the second after the murder, the investigation was resumed, and others of the servants examined. Beneath the lower staircase was found a grappling iron with three hooks, with a new rope knotted, so as to form a species of ladder attached to it. No marks of blood were found either on the person or clothes of Le

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Brun. In a hay-loft attached to the house was found, under some straw, a shirt, the front of which and the wristbands were covered with blood. one side of it there were marks of bloody fingers, and under this shirt was found a cravat spotted with blood at the ends. On searching diligently a second time in Le Brun's apartment, in a basket of old iron were found a picklock and a file, and also a napkin belonging to the house marked with an 8., like that found on the bed of the deceased.

Expert persons were nominated to examine and compare the articles found upon Le Brun, when some locksmiths appointed deposed, that the master-key found upon him was of very different make to that found upon the cook; that Le Brun's master-key appeared to have had a piece taken off, and to have been newly filed; that it opened not only the street-door, but that of the ante-chamber, and the doors of the chamber in which the murdered lady slept, but that the other key, which belonged to the cook, opened only the street-door; that the key of Le Brun opened the locks of these chambers upon the double as well as the single turn. The linen-drapers reported that they found no similarity between the bloody cravat and the shirt and other linen belonging to Le Brun. The two servant girls moreover deposed, that they had never seen him wear it, but that they believed they had washed it for a lackey, named Berry, lately in the service of their mistress, who discharged him for pilfering.

There being no marks of violence on any of the doors, the " passe par tout," such as it was, found upon Le Brun, was considered as one of the strongest proofs against him, for it was a species of key which a servant was then prohibited from having in his possession. A belief existed that none but a domestic could have committed or aided the assassin in the commission of the murder, and the servant in whose possession the unlawful key was found was, from this circumstance, convicted of having committed the assassination, or having been accessory to it.

The Judges who came to this decision upon these facts, says the editor of the French report, "erred by a fatality which may happen to the best Judges," and concluding that none but a domestic could have committed the

General, "I witnessed one of the most extraordinary phenomenons perhaps ever witnessed in any age. On my arrival at Princeton on the evening of the 13th instant, I was informed by Dr. Thompson and several other gentlemen of high respectability, that a young orphan girl, aged twelve or thirteen years, resident in the family of the Honourable William Prince, about seven miles from Princeton, on the 7th instant, commenced sweating blood, or, in other words, the blood ran freely from the pores of the skin of her left cheek from a space considerably larger than a dollar; that it continued in this way until the evening of the 11th instant, when it ceased; that on the morning of the 12th a large drop of black blood, the size of a large bean, suddenly emitted from her cheek below the eye, to which was attached sundry fibres, tendons, or something which resemble the leg of a large spider, which legs or fibres appeared to possess life, by their manner of contracting and extending themselves, something very similar to the legs of a spider; that shortly afterwards a lump of pure clean flesh, about the size of a large pea, suddenly emitted from the same place, and in a few minutes a solid firm piece of bone, near one-fourth of an inch square, suddenly proceeded from the same place; and that no hole, opening, or appearance, from whence those substances emitted, could possibly be discovered by the strictest scrutiny; that the girl remained in perfect health, entirely free from the most distant symptoms of pain and soreness; and that no change of colour or other singular appearance manifested themselves at that part of the face more than any other part. Thus I have given, as briefly as possible, a history of the facts related to me by Dr. Thompson and others, on my arrival at Princeton. Dr. Thompson showed me at the same time sundry pieces of bone and lumps of flesh, which he had removed from her face with his own hand.

"Notwithstanding the confidence which I felt myself bound to place in the statements of those gentlemen, I could not persuade even credulity itself to yield belief to their statements in the fulness of their extent; or at least I believed that could I witness the facts myself, I could discover some hole, opening, or appearance from whence those bones and lumps of flesh

proceeded. But judge my surprise! On the next morning I made a visit for this purpose, in company with General John Neely and Dr. Thompson, and soon found myself bound to assent to the truth of facts which puts even credulity itself to the blush. We arrived at the house of Judge Prince at half past nine o'clock A. M. and were informed by Mrs. Prince that nothing of the kind had made its appearance since sun-set the evening before. The girl appeared in perfect health, quite cheerful, and pursing her ordinary occupation; I examined her closely, but could discover nothing unusual in any part of her face. She is a handsome, smooth-skinned, plump-faced girl, of agreeable and expressive countenance. After waiting half an hour, I was about to depart, presuming that nothing of the kind would again appear, when suddenly the girl, who was walking the floor, turned around with a smile, when I discovered a lump of something like black blood, about as thick, and nearly as black as tar, near the size of a cherry, just below the inner corner of her left eye, which I instantly removed, and found the skin underneath perfectly clean, smooth, and solid. Being assured by Mrs. Prince that in a few minutes a lump of flesh, and soon after a bone would follow, we caused her to sit down, and examined the place with the nicest scrutiny, but found no hole or aperture could be discovered. In precisely 16 minutes, a lump of clean flesh, without any mixture of blood, suddenly made its appearance on the outside of the skin, about the size of a large bean, which General Neely instantly removed, when no hole or aperture in the skin could be discovered. In six minutes afterwards, a solid piece of bone, near oneeighth of an inch square, suddenly made its appearance at the same place, which being instantly removed, no hole or aperture in the skin could be discovered. Precisely 14 minutes afterwards, a lump of clean flesh, as large as the end of a man's little finger, to the first joint, suddenly appeared at the same place, and in eight minutes afterwards a solid piece of bone, as thick, and about half the length and width of a large grain of corn, when the nicest scrutiny could not discern any opening, or appearance of any aperture from whence those bones and lumps of flesh proceeded. During this time Judge Emmerson came in, and

witnessed the foregoing facts with equal surprise.

"In this way it has continued up to the present time; at intervals of from five to twenty minutes, lumps of clean flesh, sometimes an inch in length, and as thick as a man's little finger, and bones of various sizes, one of which I am credibly informed dropped from her face on the evening of the 15th instant, as large as a well grown grain of corn.

"The girl remains in perfect health, free from the most distant symptoms of pain, either in the part affected or otherwise. She is only sensible of a slight degree of twitching or tickling in the flesh at the instant those emissions take place; the colour of the skin at the place is not changed, nor can any appearance of a singular kind whatever be observed. But a most inexplicable mystery is, that the quickness of vision, or in other words, the powers of discernment cannot discover the commencement of those emissions of bones and flesh. The first thing the eye can discover, is the clot of blood, (which emits first and but once in the day), the lump of flesh or the bones, as the case may be, protruded on the outside of the skin, which being instantly removed, the skin underneath is as smooth and as free from any hole, opening, or aperture, which can be discovered by the strictest scrutiny, as the most solid part of the palm of a man's hand.

"R. M. EVANS. "Evansville, Ind. Nov. 17, 1823."

him that he had brought with him a famous water, called Lie Water, which being placed on the tongue of a person suspected of telling an untruth, if guilty, it made a hole in it, if innocent, the party came off with credit unhurt. Tom thinking it a trick to try him, readily consented to the experiment. Upon which the captain, with much form, put a single drop of Aqua Fortis upon Tom's tongue, which no sooner operated than he began to jump about the room, exclaiming, "Very true, very true, half Tutenaque, half Tutenaque!" Hoping that confessing the fact, would stop the progress of the Lie Water, which, from the pain he felt, he believed possessed the properties attributed to it by the captain.

GONE OUT TOO.

A troublesome acquaintance having called on a gentleman at the West End of the town oftener than welcome, the gentleman desired his servant to say, the next time he called, he was gone out. The intruder came, and being told by the servant that the master was gone out, "Oh, very well, never mind," he exclaimed, "I'll speak with your mistress." "She's also gone out, sir," was the reply. Our gentleman, as a dernier resource, not being willing to be denied admission, said, " as it is a cold day, I will step in and sit down by the fire a few minutes." "Ah, sir," replied the servant, "but that is gone out too."