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But notwithstanding, one night when it began to be dark, the Apparition met him again, and seemed very fierce and cruel, threatening him, that if he did not reveal the Murder, she would continually pursue and haunt him; yet for all this, he still concealed it, until St. Thomas Eve before Christmas, when being soon after Sun-set walking in his Garden, she appeared again, and then so ⟨p. 234⟩threatened and affrighted him, that he promised faithfully to reveal it the next morning: In the morning he went unto a Magistrate, and discovered the whole matter, with all the circumstances, and diligent search being made, the Body was found in a Cole-pit, with five wounds in the head, and the Pick, and Shoes, and Stockings yet bloody, and in every circumstance as the Apparition had related to the Miller: Whereupon Walker and Mark Sharp were both apprehended, but would confess nothing. At the Assizes following, (I think it was at Durham) they were arraigned, found guilty, and Hanged; but I could never hear that they confessed the Fact. It was reported that the Apparition did appear to the Judge, or the Fore-man of the Jury, but of that I know no certainty. There are many persons yet alive that can remember this strange Murder, and I saw and read the Letter which was sent to Serjeant Hutton about it, from the Judge before whom they were tried, which maketh me relate it with greater confidence. Thus far we have Mr. Webster's Relations.

But notwithstanding, one night when it began to be dark, the Apparition met him again, and seemed very fierce and cruel, threatning him, that if he did not reveal the Murder, she would continually pursue and haunt him; yet for all this, he still concealed it, until St. Thomas Eve before Christmas, when being soon after Sun-set walking in his Garden, she appeared again, and then so ⟨p. 234⟩threatned and affrighted him, that he promised faithfully to reveal it the next morning: In the morning he went unto a Magistrate, and discovered the whole matter, with all the circumstances, and diligent search being made, the Body was found in a Cole-pit, with five wounds in the head, and the Pick, and Shoes, and Stockins yet bloody, and in every circumstance as the Apparition had related to the Miller: Whereupon Walker and Mark Sharp were both apprehended, but would confess nothing. At the Assizes following, (I think it was at Durham) they were arraigned, found guilty, and Hanged; but I could never hear that they confessed the Fact. It was reported that the Apparition did appear to the Judge, or the Fore-man of the Jury, but of that I know no certainty. There are many persons yet alive that can remember this strange Murder, and I saw and read the Letter which was sent to Serjeant Hutton about it, from the Judge before whom they were tried, which maketh me relate it with greater confidence. Thus far we have Mr. Webster's Relations.