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pointed downwards towards another place on the same wall, where a like breach 

 was made, partly behind the place of the looking glass; that the boards on the 

 back of a large hair trunk, full of linen, standing beneath the looking-glass, 

 were forced in, and splintered as if by the blow of a smith's sledge; that two 

 thirds of the linen within this trunk were pierced or cut through, the cut ap- 

 pearing of a quadrangular figure, and between two or three inches over; that 

 one end of the trunk was forced out, as the back was driven in ; that at about 

 two feet distance from the end of the trunk, where the floor and the side-wall 

 of the house joined, there was a small breach made in the plaster, where a 

 small chink or crevice was to be seen between the side board of the floor and 

 the wall, so wide that a man could thrust his fingers down ; and that just be- 

 neath this in the kitchen the ceiling was forced down, and some of the plaster 

 of the wall broken off; that exactly under this there stood a large tub or vessel 

 of wood, inclosed with a crib of brick and lime, which was broken and splin- 

 tered all to pieces, and most of the brick and lime-work about it scattered 

 about the kitchen. 



I observed that the looking-glass was broken with such violence, that there 

 was not a piece of it to be found of the size of a half crown ; that several 

 pieces of it were sticking like hail-shot in the chamber door, which was oak, 

 and on the other side of the room ; that several of the edges and corners of 

 some of the pieces of the broken glass were tinged of a light flame colour, 

 as if heated in the fire ; that the curtains of the bed were cut in several pieces, 

 supposed to be done by the pieces of the glass; that several pieces of muslin 

 and wearing linen, left on the large hair trunk, were thrown about the room, 

 no way singed or scorched ; and yet the hair on the back of the trunk where 

 the breach was made, was singed ; that the uppermost part of the linen within 

 the trunk was not touched, and the lowermost parcel, consisting of more than 

 350 ply of linen, was pierced through, of which none was anywise smutted, 

 except the uppermost ply of a tablecloth that lay over all the rest ; that there 

 was a yellow singe or stain, perceivable on some part of the damaged linen, 

 and that the whole smelt strongly of sulphur; that the glass of two windows 

 in the bed-chamber above, and two windows in the kitchen below, was so 

 shattered, that there was scarcely one whole pane left in any of them; that the 

 pewter, brass, and iron furniture in the kitchen were thrown down, and scat- 

 tered about, particularly a large girdle about 20 pounds weight, that hung upon 

 an iron hook near the ceiling, was found lying on the floor; that a cat was 

 found dead next morning in the kitchen, with its legs extended as in a moving 

 posture, with no other sign of being hurt, than that the fur was singed a little 

 about the rump. 



