offence, and stating in substance that he had by accident seen the three men come from the shop on the night in question, and that Royal had, in the presence of the two others, admitted to him that he had killed the old woman. After this, he added that he went into the shop, saw the body, and then repaired to his own home, where, after having admitted his master, he retired to bed. The effect produced on the public and the Court by this statement was by no means so unfavourable to the prisoners then on their trial as it was to the witness himself. The former called several parties who proved alibis for them, and they were acquitted, while the latter was discharged and met on the hill by the taunts and hootings of an enraged populace, who pursued him to a public-house, and so beset him that he was smuggled away, and crossed the river secretly at night near the railroad station, whence on the following day he returned to Yarmouth in company with the Dicks and some other witnesses. His situation at Yarmouth was not more free from public odium than at Norwich. The police were frequently called out to protect him, and at last he applied to the Poor Law Guardians for funds to facilitate his departure from a scene so oppressive to him. This aid he applied for on the 18th of April, the trial having terminated on the 9th, and on the 22nd he received 31., with which he departed. In about three months after this a communication was made to Captain Love, the superintendent of the borough police, to the effect that Mrs. Dick was in the possession of a full confession made by Yarham since the trial and before his

departure; and, the matter being inquired into, it was deemed proper to act on the communications of that person. The result was, that Yarham was apprehended in Gloucestershire, and fully committed to take his trial for the murder of the deceased.

Sarah Dick, the wife of John Dick, of the Town Battery.-On the morning of Tuesday, November 19th, 1844, I went to get some linen. At half-past two I carried some linen to Mr. Shipley's, and on returning home I said to my daughter, who was with

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"Let us see, the boys have been hiding something here." I put my hand there, and there was nothing, and followed the feet a little further, when the feet stopped. I said "There is something here, let us see; perhaps it is the old woman's money. I went down on my knees and began to poke the sand away, and I found a bag buried, and which jinked as though there were coppers in it. Tooley's men came over from their mill; my husband also came up. I was far from the battery. Royal came up last. My husband pulled the bag out of the hole, and said it was the woman's money, because the ticket was on it. Royal said there ought to be more yet, and he put his hand in and pulled out a small bag with some gold and silver, and he wanted to count it. My husband said it should not be counted; my husband said he would carry all; but Royal would not let him. We all then went to the inquest together, and gave them to Sergeant Williamet. There was a broken bottle and mug near the place, as if for a mark. I was at the battery in the afternoon after I came from the Court; a man came up to me,

and was at the place where I found the money; he was poking at the hole. He walked up to me and began to talk to me; he had dark trousers and a blue coat buttoned up to his neck, and a high hat, and I did not know him then, but have since ascertained it was the prisoner. The man said, "It is cold here, and you need have a good fire." I said, "I would keep

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better if I could afford it." He said, "Your name is Dick?" I said, "Yes." He said, "You found the money?" I said, "I did." He said, "All you have to do now is to find the murderer." I said, "I wished to God I could; I would walk twenty miles to it out, though I was lame." then said (moving his foot), "I am the murderer. I said, 6. If you are the murderer you would not tell me; what is your name?" He said, "You know me. I said, I do not. He says, Yes, you do." I said, "If he would tell me I would tell the gentlemen." He said, "You know me. He then walked away as far as the hole, then turned round and looked at me again, then proceeded towards the town. I told the Mayor what had passed, and the Mayor said it was only some person tampering with justice. I said, "I should like to see Yarham. He said, "It could not be him." I was afterwards examined before the magistrates, and when the other persons were examined I looked at the dock, when before the magistrates, and thought I knew him, but could not recollect who it was. There was a young man in the battery at the time the man spoke to me, and he told me the man's name was Yarham, and that was why I asked to see him. After the trial,

I and my husband went home by the train, when we saw Yarham and his wife. He tried to shake hands with my husband, but he refused. I said, "Good God, if that be Yarham, that is the man that spoke to me. After I got in the carriage, Yarham's wife asked me if I thought the people in Yarmouth would think she was the guilty party if they stopped or left Yarmouth? I said, "God knows, you know your conscience best." When the prisoner first came up to the railway station, he said to my husband, "Don't you know me? I am Yarham, but call me Mr. C.," and offered to shake hands. When we were going along, Yarham said, "Mrs. Dick, say as little about the money as possible, for my solicitor told me that the prisoner's solicitor wanted to fetch me in the murder, and you as the person that helped me to hide it." I said, "Dick,

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do you hear what Yarham says ?" and my husband came up, and the prisoner told him the same thing. On getting to Yarmouth, the prisoner said, Dick, if I see any thing in the paper that would affect you or your wife's character, I will let you know.' My husband said, "Don't come to me, I don't want you, I take in the paper. I saw him again on the top of the market on a Tuesday, either a fortnight or three weeks after, it was between nine and ten o'clock. He came up to me and said, "How do you do?" I said, "I don't know you (I didn't for a moment). He said, Do any

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of these three fellows interfere with you?" I said they did not interfere with me so much as they did with the girl. I said, "Do they interfere with you?" He said, "No, they know better, but

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the people plague me so much that I cannot stay here; I have been to the workhouse to get money to go away with." I said, I think you ought to have spoken the truth at first, and things would have gone better. I think you are either the murderer yourself, or know who did it." I thought I had no right to say so, and I turned to leave him. He said, Stop, and I will tell you all about it." I stopped, and he said he was not so much to blame as they were, for they never let him rest after they heard that Mrs. Candler had got the money. He said he heard Mr. Catchpole was going about amongst the Angels. I said, Where is the house?" he said, the Angel Inn. He said, they came to him and asked him to let them in. He made a bargain with them not to hurt the old woman, for they had time enough to get the money in the time she was getting the beer, as she was generally a quarter of an hour gone. He let them in at the back door, except Royal, who watched about the time she went for the beer. He told them to go into the bedroom, for that was

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where she kept the money. While they were there the woman came in sooner than usual. He was up stairs, and, on hearing Candler come in, he put out the candle and sat on the bed. Royal went in. She said, "What do you here? I know you." Royal asked for half an ounce of tobacco, and the time she was getting it, Royal and Hall knocked her down with the pincers. They thought she was dead. Mapes ran out to a woman on the other side of the street, and said, "All's right." He asked if there was any noise at the Swan. She said, "I will

go and see who is there." She said there were several people there. They all then went up Black Swan-row, and saw several people there; one of them was a young man who they thought must know them. Mapes then ran home to the Feathers' tap. As he was going along the Market-gates he saw a person turn a light on him, who afterwards appeared to be Layton. He then ran home, telling the others to bury the money and to give him the signal when it was done, as his house would be sure to be searched first. When he went home he saw the woman lying in the shop. She turned her eyes on him, and, seeing a lard knife lying by her, he took it and cut her throat. I said, 66 You are the murderer. Prisoner said, "No, she could not live, she had been beaten so much by Royal and Hall." Royal did give the signal, and he opened the window and saw Royal go down the street, and the policeman Waller coming down the other. There was a man came up then and hit him on the shoulder, and said, "Are you going?" and they both went away together.

Cross-examined.-I went about my business, and made my purchases, and went home. I did not mention it to a policeman till it was mentioned to the magistrates; it was some time after. I cannot tell how long it was after. It might be three months before I mentioned it. I was at Yarmouth all that time; Yarham was not there to the best of my knowledge. I did not see him. He told me he was going to get some money to go. I don't know how long the conversation lasted, but think about ten minutes. He

stood with his back to the shops. Several persons passed backwards and forwards. The pavement is five or six feet wide. I did not take notice of the number of people that passed. I thought it was very strange that he should tell me. I did not write it down, because I cannot write. I am not much accustomed to tell long conversations. I paid attention to it because he told me, that's all. I thought it was a thing that ought to be mentioned, but my husband told me not to say any thing about it: he would not even allow nie to tell him. It was my duty to mention it; I ought to have done it. I never saw the man before or since who took Yarham away. I may have spoken to my husband about it. He read over the report of the trial, but I was busy and did not mind him. I heard a word here and there. I had to work for my family. I saw Yarham at the old gaol hall. I asked the mayor to see Yarham, that I might see him, because I wanted to see if it was him. I thought it was not right to give the man in charge after what the mayor had said. I saw him when he was before the magistrates. When I saw him there I thought I knew him, but could not recollect for the moment who it was.

Re-examined by Mr. Palmer.I did not expect to meet Yarham. My husband told me not to say any thing about it, for he said they should get into trouble, as no one could put an ounce of weight upon his (Yarham's) evidence. I first told a married daughter of mine about it, and she told me to tell the gentlemen; and it was she that told the gentlemen about it, and they came down to her about it.

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Sarah Dick. I am daughter of the last witness. I lived, in 1844, at the Battery. On Tuesday, the 19th of November, I remember a man coming and speaking to my mother; there was a boy in the Battery, who told me that the man's name was Yarham -the prisoner at the bar is the man. I remember going to Norwich after the trial; Yarham and his wife were there. I know him to be the same man that spoke to my mother. My mother told me the conversation she had had with Yarham, and I told Mr. W. Yates, the magistrate, about it. There was some disagreeableness between my father and my mother, and I asked her the reason. She then told me all about it. I told the magistrates, because I thought it was not a proper thing to be kept

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Cross-examined. I heard the conversation that passed between my mother and Yarham the first time, and was with my mother when she told the magistrates. I was only fourteen years of age, and I thought it was not proper to charge a man so much older than myself with murder. I saw the prisoner when before the magistrates. I cannot say how many people there were in the railway carriage. There were the witnesses that were engaged.

Re-examined.-I had heard my mother mention, speaking to Mr. H. Palmer, who was then mayor, and I did not think it was necessary to mention it again.

Some further evidence was then adduced to sustain the credibility of the statement now made by Mrs. Dick; and also as to the extraordinary proceedings of the magistrates in reference to the prisoner, when a prisoner in Nor2 B