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weapon, bore the inscription, " Presented to Thomas Rough- 
ton on his winning the Liverpool Cup with SterUng." It was 
Mr. Roughton who gave the revolver to Archer. 
After the inquest the minds of Captain Bowhng and Mr. 
W. Manning, the well-known clerk of scales, were much exer- 
cised as to what they should do with the revolver. They 
were afraid it might be exhibited to a morbid-loving pubhc, 
and so they buried it on Newmarket Heath. 
At one time Archer is said to have been worth about a 
quarter of a million, but the defeat of St. Mirin and other 
heavy turf losses considerably reduced the value of the 
estate. 
The news of Archer's sad end created the greatest consterna- 
tion throughout the world. In London special editions of 
the evening papers were issued, giving the bare announcement 
of Archer's death. A large number of people crowded Fleet 
Street, and the omnibuses stopped to allow passengers to read 
the sad news posted up. In the suburban trains, in the trams, 
and in the streets, it was almost the sole topic of conversation, 
and had Archer been a distinguished diplomatist, or even a 
member of the regnant, crowned family, greater concern could 
hardly have been manifested. 
Later on, special and extra-special editions of the evening 
papers were issued, and railway stations were thronged with 
boys offering them for sale. So anxious were suburban 
travellers leaving town to obtain copies that silver coins in 
many instances were given for the sheets, as fast as the papers, 
without being folded, could be withdrawn from the bundles 
which each lad carried. 
If the year of Archer's death is counted, he had headed the 
list for the last thirteen seasons, while in 1873 he was only 
two behind the late Harry Constable. We append the full 
table : 
