[Oddsfish! by Robert Hugh Benson]@TWC D-Link bookOddsfish! CHAPTER VIII 12/19
Even in Puckeridge it was not known, I think, who I was, nor that I was cousin to Mr.Jermyn; so I had no fear of Mr.Rumbald suspecting me.
Green, Berry, and Hill were all convicted of Sir Edmund's murder, through the testimony of Bedloe, who said that he had himself seen the body at Somerset House, and that Sir Edmund had been strangled there by priests and others and conveyed later to the ditch in Primrose Hill where he was found.
Another fellow, too, named Miles Prance, a silversmith in Princes Street (out of Drury Lane), who was said by Bedloe to have been privy to the murder, in the fear of his life, and after inhuman treatment in prison, did corroborate the story and add to it, under promise of pardon, which he got.
Green, Berry, and Hill, then, were hanged on the tenth day of February, on the testimonies of these two; and were as innocent as unborn babes.
It was remarked how strangely their names went with the name of the murdered man and of the place he was found in. For a while after that, matters were more quiet.
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