The discovery was, as half these discoveries generally are, the result of accident.
Last week a gentleman entered the Bank and asked for change in gold for a fifty pound note.

The cashier, looking at the number, found that it was one of those that had been stolen from a passenger by one of the south coaches several months ago.

The gentleman was at once taken into a private office, and questioned as to how he had obtained the note.
The account that he gave was that he was a surgeon in practice at Southampton.

A gentleman had arrived there on a date which we found to be the day after that on which you were stopped; he was well dressed, and had the air of a gentleman; he had come down by coach, and was evidently very ill.

He told the surgeon that he had been engaged in a duel, that the pistols had been discharged simultaneously, and that he had killed his man, but had himself been severely wounded.