On Saturday, Mozier, an acquaintance of Gardelle's, who had been alfo intimate with Mrs. King, and had spent the evening with her the Wednesday before the murder, came by appointment about two or three o'clock, having promifed to go with her that evening to the opera. He was let in by Gardelle, who told him that Mrs. King was gone to Bath or Bristol, as he had told Pelfey. This man, and another of Gardelle's acquaintance, obferving him to be chagrined and difpirited, feem to have imagined that Mrs. King's abfence was the caufe of it, and that if they could get him another girl they fhould cure him they were therefore kind enough to procare for him on this occafion; and having picked up a prostitute in the Hay-market, they brought her that very Saturday to Gardelle at Mrs. King's. The worthy, whofe name is not known, told her Mrs. King was gone into the country, and had discharged her fervant; Gardelle made an apology for the confufion in which the house appeared, and Mozier, or Muzard, as he is fometimes called, afked her if she would take care of the houfe: the readily confented; and Gardelle acquiefcing, they left her with him. He asked her what her bufinefs was; fhe faid the worked plain-work; he then told her he had fome fhirts to mend, and that he would fatisfy her for her trouble. All this while the body continued as he had left it on Thursday night, nor had he once been into the room fince that time. But this night the woman and Pelfey being in bed, he firft conceived a defign of concealing or deftroying the dead body by parts, and went down to put it in execution; but the woman, whose name is Sarah Walker, getting out of bed and following him, he returned up ftairs, and went to bed with her. In the morning, Sunday, he got up between feven and elght, and left Walker in bed, faying, it was too foon for her to rife; the fell afleep, and flept till ten: it is probable that in the mean time, he was employed on the body, for when fhe came down between ten and eleven, he was but beginning to light the parlour fire. He had spoke to her the night before to get him a chair woman, and he was in fo much confufion that he did not ask her to ftay to breakfaft; fhe went out therefore and hired one Pritchard as a chair-woman, at one fhilling a day, victuals and drink in the afternoon fhe brought Pritchard to the houfe, and found with Gardelle two or three men and two women = Gardelle went up with her and stayed by her while the made his bed, then the company all went out together. The chair-woman kept houfe, and about ten o'clock they returned and fupped in Gardelle's room. She was then difmiffed for the night, and ordered to come the next morning at eight. The next morning, Monday, the chairwoman was ordered to tell Pelfey the footman, that Walker was a relation of Mrs. King's, who was come to be in the houfe till Mrs. King returned; but Pelfey knew that the and Gardelle had but one bed, for when he came down on Monday morning, Gardelle's chamber-door food open, and looking in, he faw fome fome of her cloaths. On Monday night Pelfey again enquired after Mrs. King, and Gardelle told him he was at Bath or Briftol, he knew not where; he always differed at times, in his account of her, yet no fufpicion of murder was yet enter tained. On Tuesday morning, Pelfey, who was going up to his mafter's room, fmelt an offenfive fmcll, and afked Gardelle, who was fhoving up the fath of the window on the flair-cafe, what it was; Gardelle replied, fomebody had put a bone in the fire; the truth however was, that while Walker was employ ed in mending and making fome linen in the parlour, he had been burning fome of Mrs. King's bones in the garret. At night, Pelfey renewed his enquiries after Mrs. King, and Gardelle anfwered with a feeming impatience, Me know not of Mrs. King, she give me a great deal of trouble, but me shall hear of her Wednesday or Thursday; yet he fill talked of fitting up for her, and all this while nobody feems to have fufpected a murder. " On Tuefday night he told Mrs. Walker he would fit up till Mrs. King came home, though he had before, told her the was out of town, and defired her to go to bed, to: which the confented; as foon as the was in bed, he renewed his horrid employment of cutting the body to pieces, and difpofing of it in different places; the bowels he threw down the neceffary, and the flesh of the body and limbs cut to pieces, he fcattered abour in the cock-loft, where he fuppofed they would dry and perth without putrefaction; about two o'clock in the morning, however, he was interrupted, for Walker having waked and not finding him, he went down flairs, and found him ftanding upon the fairs; he then, at her folicitation, went up with her to bed. ,, Wednesday paffed like the preceding days, and on Thursday he told his female companion, that he expected Mrs. King home in the evening, and therefore defired that fhe would provide herself a lodging, giving her at the fame time, two of Mrs. King's fhifts, and being thus difmiffed, the went away. Pritchard, the chair-woman, still continued in her office. The water having failed in the ciftern on the Tuesday, fhe had recourfe to that in the water-tub in the back kitchen; upon pulling out the spiggot a little water ran out, but, as there appeared to be more in, the got upon a ledge, and putting her hand in, fhe felt fomething foft; the then fetched a poker, and preffing down the contents of the tub, fie got water in a pail. This circumftance fhe told Pelfey, and they agreed the first opportunity to fee what the things in the water-tub were; yet fo languid was their curiofity, and fo careless were they of the event, that it was Thursday be fore this tub was examined: they' found in it the blankets, fheets, and ceverlet that Gardelle had put in it to foak: after spreading, fhaking and looking at them, they put them again into the tub; and the next morning when Pelfey came down, he faw the curtain hanging on the banisters of the kitchen stairs; upon looking down, he faw Gardelle juft come out at the wafh-houfe door, where the tub flood. When Pritchard the chair-woman came, he afk ed her if the had been taking the curtain out of the tub, and the faid, no; he then went and looked in the tub, and found the fheets had been been wrung out. Upon this the firft ftep was taken towards enquir ing after the unhappy woman, who had now lain dead more than a week in the house. Pelfey found out the maid whom Gardelle had difmiffed, and asked her if the had put any bed-cloaths into the water; the faid, No, and feemed frighted Pelfey was then alfo alarmed, and told his master. Thefe particulars alfo came to the knowledge of Mr. Barron an apothecary in the neighbourhood, who went the fame day to Mrs. King's houfe, and enquired of Gardelle where fhe was. He trembled, and told him with great confufion that fhe was gone to Bath. The next day therefore, Saturday, he carried the maid before Mr. Fielding, the justice, to make her depofition, and obtained a warrant to take Gardelle into cuftody. When the warrant was obtained, Mr. Barron, with the conftable, and fome others, went to the houfe, where they found Gardelle, and charged him with the murder; he denied it, but foon after dropped down in a fwoon. When he recovered, they demanded the key of Mrs. King's chamber; but he faid fhe had got it with her in the country; the conftable therefore got in at the window, and opened the door that communicated with the parlour, and they all went in. They found upon the bed a pair of blankets wet, and a pair of theets that appeared not to have been lain in; and the curtain alto which Polfeyand the chair-woman had feen firft in thewater-tub, and then on the banisters, was found put up in its place wet. Upon taking off the cloaths, the bed appeared bloody, the blankets alfo were bloody, and marks of blood appeared in other places; having taken his keys, they went up into his room, where they found the bloody fhift and fhirt. The prifoner, with all thefe tokens of his guilt, was then carried before Fielding, and, though he ftily denied the fact, was committed. On the Monday, a carpenter and bricklayer were fent to fearch the houfe for the body, and Mr. Barron went with them. In the necellary they found what he calls the contents of the bowels of a human body, but what were certainly the bowels themfelves; and in the cock-loft they found the parts of generation, one of the breafts, fome other mufcular parts, and fore bones. They perceived alfo that there had been a fire in the garret, and fome fragments of bones, half confumed, were found in the chimney, fo large as to be known to be human. On the Thurfday before, he had carried an oval chip-box to one Perronneau, a painter in enamel, who had employed him in copying, and pretending it contained colours of great value, defired him to keep it, faying he was uneafy to leave it at Mrs. King's while the was abfent at Bath. Perronneau, when he heard Gardelle was taken up, opened the box, and found in it a gold watch and chain, a pair of braceless, and a pair of ear-rings, which were known to be Mrs. King's. To this force of evidence Gardelle at length gave way, and confeffed the fact, but figned no confeffion. He was fent to New Prifon, where he attempted to deftroy himself by fwallowing fome opium, which he had kept feveral years by him as a remedy for the tooth-ach. He took at-one dofe 40 grains, which was fo far from antwering his purpofe that it it did not procure him fleep; tho' he declared he had not once flept fince the commiffion of the fact, nor did he fleep for more than a fortnight after this time. When he found the opium did not produce the effect he defired, he fwallowed half-pence to the number of twelve; but neither did these bring on any fatal fymptom, whatever pain or diforders they might caufe; which is remarkable, because verdigrese, the folution of copper, is a very powerful and active poifon, and the contents of the ftomach would act as a diffolvent upon them. On the 2d of March he was brought to Newgate, and diligently watched, to prevent any further attempts upon his life. He fhewed ftrong marks of penitence and contrition, and behaved with great humanity, opennefs, and courtesy to thofe who visited him. On Thursday, the 2d of April,he was tried at the Old Bailey and in his defence, he infifted only that he had no malice to the deceased, and that her death was the confequence of the fall. He was conviced, and fentenced to be executed on Saturday the 4th. The account which he wrote in prifon, and which is mentioned in this narrative, is dated the 28th of March, though he did not communicate it till after his trial. The night after his condemnation his behaviour was extravagant and outrageous; yet the next morning he was compofed and quiet, and faid he had flept three or four hours in the night. When he was afked why he did not make his efcape, he anfwered, that he feared fome innocent perfon might then fuffer in his ftead. He declared he had no defign to rob Mrs. King, but that he removed fome of the things merely to give credit to the ftory of her journey to Bath; he declared too, that he dever had any fentiments of love or jealoufy with refpect to Mrs. King; though it is evident, his, friends, who preferibed for his lownefs of fpirits, fuppofed that he had. He affirmed, that he regarded the woman they brought him with horror, but that he did not dare to refufe her, left it fhould produce new fufpicions with respect to the caufe of his uneafinefs. It is however certain, that he felt the ill effects of her company in more ways than one to his last hour. He was executed amidst the fhouts and hiffes of an indignant populace, in the Haymarket, near Panton-ftreet, to which he was led by Mrs. King's houfe, where the cart made a ftop, and at which he juft gave a look. His body was hanged in chains upon Hounflow-heath. One reflection, upon reading this dreadful narrative, will probably rife in the mind of the attentive reader; the advantages of virtue with refpect of our focial connections, and the intereft that others take in what befals us. It does not appear that, during all the time Mrs. King was miffing, fhe was enquired after by one relation or friend; the murder was discovered by ftrangers, almoft without folicitude or enquiry; the murderer was fecured by trangers, and byftrangers the profecution againft him was carried on. But who is there of honeft reputation, however poor, that could be milfmg a day, without becoming the fubject of many interefting enqui ries, without exciting folicitude and fears, that would have had no-reft till the truth had been discovered, and the injury, if any, had been avenged? Some Some account of John Perrott, a bankrupt, who was lately hanged in Smithfield, for concealing part of his effects. JOH [OHN Perrott was born at Newport Pagnel, in Buckinghamhire, about fixty miles north of London, in the year 1723, being about 38 years of age at his death. His father died when he was feven years old, and his mother about two years afterwards, leaving him a fortune of about 1,5001. After the death of his parents, he was, by the direction of a guardian, placed in the foundation fchool of Gilfborough in Northamptonfhire, where he continued five years: he was then, being about 15 years old, put apprentice to his half-brother at Hampstead in Hertfordshire, where he ferved out his time. In the year 1747, he came up to London, and began to trade for himfelf in foreign white lace, but kept no fhop. In the beginning of the year 1719, he took a houfe, and opened a warehoufe in Blow-bladder-ftreet. A bout the year 1752, he removed from Blow-bladder-street to Ludgate-hill, where he opened a linendraper's hop, and dealt in various other articles, ftiling himself merchant. From the time of his opening this fhop till the year 1759, he returned, annually about two thoufand pounds; and was remarkably punctual in his payments. Having thus eftablifhed his reputation, and finding that no credit which he fhould afk, would be refufed him, he formed a scheme of abufing this confidence, which he began to put in execution by contracting for goods of different forts, to the value of 30,0001. the greateft part of which, amounting to the value of 25,0001. he actually got into his poffeffion. In purfuance of his project, it was necellary to convert thefe goods into ready money as foon as poffible; he therefore employed one Henry Thompson (who had for three or four years acted as his agent, or broker) to fell them for ready money. Thompson, at this time, kept a little house in Monkwell-ftreet, near Wood-firect, whither the goods were fent in the dufk of the evening, and whither he invited fome of the principal traders to look at them, as goods configned to him from the places where they were manufactured. Perrott always fet a price upon them, which Thompfon fhewed to his chapen, who ufually fixed another price at which they would buy; at this price Thompson was always ordered to fell, though it was frequently 15 and 20 per cent below prime colt. When he had thus converted the goods he obtained upon credit into money, and before the time when he was to pay for them arrived, he fummoned his creditors together, who accordingly met on the 17th of January, 1760, at the Half-noon tavern, in Cheapfide; where he acquainted them that he was unable to pay the whole of what he owed, referring himself entirely to their plea fure, and promifing to acquietes in all fuch meafures as they fhould propofe, to purfue their own Lenefit and fecurity. This conduct, and thefe profeffons, had fo plausible an appear ance, that Perrott's creditors conceived a favourable opinion of hin, notwithstanding the lofs they were likely to fuffer: it was however detennined, that a commiffion of bankruptcy |