“I have sent off the key, wrapped in paper to make a packet of sufficient size not to be easily lost, and dispatched a man with it to the great north road, to deliver it to the guard of the mail himself; to pay him handsomely, and to say that the guard who delivers it safely at Castleborough will be also handsomely paid, as it contains what is helpful to the full discovery of the circumstances of the ——, I cannot write the word, of Mr. Drury, late of Garnside. That alone would insure its safe delivery, for the indignation is great all round this country at the deed. The packet is addressed to Mr. Heritage at the bank.” No sooner was George Woodburn in possession of the key than he set to work. He found all Mr. Drury’s accounts in the nicest and most perfect order. His bill-book showed exactly that the three bills found in his pocket-book were all that he was in possession of. These bills had been presented by George Woodburn, soon after the perpetration of the murder, at the bank of Mr. Heritage, where they were payable, and they had been duly taken up, and credited to the account of the late Mr. Drury. The balance at the bank, which was large, agreed precisely with that in the pass-book; and on referring to the pay-book of Mr. Drury, he ascertained the time when the amount of his previous receipt at the bank had been exhausted; and that, besides the bank-notes in the pocket-book, which were of the several values of one hundred pounds, fifty pounds, and twenty pounds, he had received, at his visit to the bank, two days before, fifty pounds in one-pound notes, clearly for the payment of harvest workmen, had paid away ten pounds, and must consequently have had in his pocket—for there was only some small change in his desk—forty pounds at the time of his death. This must have been the roll of notes carried off by Scammel. The one hundred and seventy pounds found in his pocket-book appeared to have been received that very day by Mr. Drury for sale of corn, and were apparently put there to carry to the bank on the following day when the three acceptances became due. Thus was the fact made completely manifest, that the crime committed was both murder and theft. Singularly enough, on examining Scammel’s body and clothes at the inquest, twenty pounds of these one-pound bank-notes were still found upon him in a large old, oblong, iron tobacco-box, so close-fitting that they were uninjured by the water, and their numbers clearly identifying them as part of the notes paid to Mr. Drury at Heritage’s bank on his last visit there. No combination of circumstances could more perfectly determine the murder to be done by Scammel.