alarm, “I told him to come to-night; but I did not think that he would take me at my word.  What can he want with me?” The next moment a pistol was fired through the casement.  The ball passed through Mr. Hurdlestone’s shoulder.  He fell to the floor across the money-box, exclaiming, “My son! my cruel son!  He has murdered me for my money; but he shall not have my money!” Witness looked up, and saw the murderer, by the light of the moon, standing by the window.  He could swear to the person of Anthony Hurdlestone.  Thinking his own life in danger he made his escape into a back room, and got out of the window, and ran as fast as he could to the village, to give the alarm and procure a surgeon.  When he returned he found the prisoner leaning, apparently conscience-stricken, over the corpse.  He offered no resistance when seized by the constables; he had no money in his possession.  A pair of pistols was found in his coat pocket.  One had been recently used; the other was still loaded; and there were stains of blood upon his hands and clothes.

He then related Anthony’s previous visit to the cottage; the manner in which he had threatened his father; and the trick the miser had played off upon him, which circumstance had been faithfully detailed to him by old Mark, who regarded the latter as an excellent joke, although, Grenard dryly remarked, “It had cost him his life.”

During Pike’s evidence, the prisoner was greatly agitated, and was observed to lean heavily upon the dock for support.  But when his cousin Godfrey and William Mathews appeared to add their testimony against him, his fortitude entirely forsook him, and he turned away, and covered his face for some minutes with his hands.

Godfrey’s evidence was most conclusive.  He stated that Anthony had borrowed from him, before his uncle’s death, the sum of four hundred pounds, to settle some college debts which he had concealed from Colonel Hurdlestone’s knowledge.  Godfrey, willing to oblige him, had raised upon a note the greater part of the money.  It became due and he (Godfrey) being unable, from his altered circumstances, to meet it, went to his cousin, to beg him to do so, if possible.  He was surprised that the prisoner was able to give him the sum at once, though he afterwards learned that it was money left in his charge by Mr. Wildegrave that he had taken for that purpose.  Anthony told him that Mr. Wildegrave had written to him for the money, and that he was greatly perplexed what to do.  In this emergency, he (Godfrey) advised him to go to his father and state to him the difficulty in which he was placed, and, in all probability, the old man would rescue him from his unpleasant situation.  He then related the result of the prisoner’s interview with his father, the manner in which he had been repulsed, and the threatening language which the prisoner had used; his (Godfrey’s) discovery of the trick which the hard old man had played off upon his son, and Anthony’s determination to