ack to the City, and left this notable woman to mop up
her murder.

At Bow Street next morning, in answer to the evidence of his guilt, Cox
told a tale which the magistrate said was even more ridiculous than
most of the stories uneducated criminals get up on such occasions; with
this single comment he committed Cox for trial.

Everybody was of the magistrate's opinion, except a single Bow Street
runner, the same who had already examined the premises. This man
suspected Cox, but had one qualm of doubt founded on the place where he
had discovered the knife, and the circumstance of the blood being
traced from that place to the stable, and not from the inn to the
stable, and on a remark Cox had made to him in the cart. "I don't
belong to the house. I haan't got no keys to go in and out o' nights.
And if I took a hatful of gold, I'd be off with it into another
country--wouldn't you? Him as took the gentleman's money, he knew
where 'twas, and he have got it: I didn't and I haan't."

Bradbury came down to the "Swan," and asked the landlady a question or
two. She gave him short answers. He then told her that he wished to
examine the wine that had come down from Mr. Gardiner's room.

The landlady looked him in the face, and said it had been drunk by the
servants or thrown away long ago.

"I have my doubts of that," said he.

"And welcome," said she.

Then he wished to examine the keyholes.

"No," said she; "there has been prying enough into my house."

Said he angrily, "You are obstructing justice. It is very suspicious."

"It is you that is suspicious, and a mischief-maker into the bargain,"
said she. "How do I know what you might put into my wine and my
keyholes, and say you found it? You are well known, you Bow Street
runners, for your hanky-panky tricks. Have you got a search-warrant,
to throw more discredit upon my house? No? Then pack! and learn the
law before you teach it me."

Bradbury retired, bitterly indignant, and his indignation strengthened
his faint doubt of Cox's guilt.

He set a friend to watch the "Swan," and he himself gave his mind to
the whole case, and visited Cox in Newgate three times before his trial.

The next novelty was that legal assistance was provided for Cox by a
person who expressed compassion for his poverty and inability to defend
himself, guilty or not guilty; and that benevolent person was--Captain
Cowen.

In due course Daniel Cox was arraigned at the bar of the O