Note 1 — IV. THE BROOK.

Since I finished writing my narrative, a friend has informed me, that, visiting the wood sometime after the discovery of the bodies, and while searching for the exact spot where Isabella Joyce was discovered, he picked up a portion of an old green coat, or some other habiliment, and carried it out in the road to his friend, who was waiting in the carriage the issue of his search, to show her, in joke, as a relic of the murderer’s dress. His friend instantly grew serious over the matter, and to this day believes it to have been worn by the man who did the murders.