looking lady.  Next morning when he went back to his work, he noticed the glass door was shut, but the red curtain inside was looped back.  He thought it was half-past eight o’clock, when he heard a loud cry in the bed-room, and very soon after, somebody screamed.  He ran up the steps, but the glass door was locked on the inside, and when he went around and got into the room, the first thing he saw was General Darrington’s body lying on the floor, with his feet toward the hearth, and his head almost on a line with the iron vault built in the wall.  The servants were screaming and wringing their hands, and he called them to help him lift the General, thinking that he had dropped in a fit; but he found him stone cold and stiff.  There was no sign of blood anywhere, but a heavy, old-fashioned brass andiron was lying close to the General’s head, and he saw a black spot like a bruise on his right temple.  General Darrington wore his night clothes, and the bed showed he had been asleep there.  Some broken vases were on the floor and hearth, and the vault was wide open.  The tin box was upside down on the carpet, and some papers in envelopes were scattered about.

Witness had picked up a leather bag carefully tied at the top with red tape, drawn into hard knots; but in one side he found a hole which had been cut with a knife, and at the bottom of the bag was a twenty-dollar gold piece.  Two more coins of the same value were discovered on the floor, when General Darrington’s body was lifted; and on the bolster of the bed lay a bottle containing chloroform.  Witness immediately sent off for some of General Darrington’s friends, and also notified the coroner; and he did not leave the room again until the inquest was held.  The window on the front piazza was open, and witness had searched the piazza and the grounds for tracks, but discovered no traces of the burglar and murderer, who had escaped before the rain ceased, otherwise the tracks would have been found.  Witness was positive that the prisoner was the same person whom he had seen coming out of the bed-room, and with whom General Darrington had quarrelled.

The sheriff here handed to the magistrate, the gold pieces found on the floor at Elm Bluff, by the last witness; then the little wicker basket which had been taken from the prisoner when she was arrested.  The coins discovered therein were taken out, and careful comparison showed that they corresponded exactly with those picked up after the murder.  The case of sapphires was also shown, and Mr. Dunbar rose to say, that “The prosecution would prove by the attorney who drew up General Darrington’s will, that these exceedingly valuable stones had been bequeathed by a clause in that will to Prince Darrington, as a bridal present for whomsoever he might marry.”