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Excerpt from Joan of Arc: And the English Mail-Coach
Upon a large overbalance of probabilities, it was, however, de finitively agreed amongst amateurs that Williams must have been alone in these atrocities. Meantime, amongst the colourable pre sumptions on the other side, was this - Some hours after the last murder, a man was apprehended at Barnet (the first stage from London on a principal north road), encumbered with a quantity of plate. How he came by it, or whither he was going, be stedfastly refused to say. In the daily journals, which he was allowed to see, he read with eagerness the police examinations of Williams; and on the same day which announced the Catastrophe of Williams, he aiso committed suicide in his cell.
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