Page:Life, trial and execution of Mary Thompson, aged 19.pdf/4

 company had left and the old couple retired to rest, the servant sat with him by the kitchen fire; she had occasion to leave the kitchen a short time, and on her return, she missed him. Hearing a noise, she ran up stairs to her mistress’ room where, to her great terror, she found the drawers plundered, and her masterandmaster and [sic] mistress lying with, their throats cut, and the blood gushing in torrents from the wounds. She immediately threw up a front window and gave the alarm, and the alarm [sic], and the neighbours entering no one being found in the house but her, suspicion fell upon her, and from constancy to her lover, she permitted herself to be fully commiteedcommitted [sic] for trial. At the late assizes she was arraigned, convicted, and sentenced to be hung and her body buried within the jail.

At the place of Execution she addressed the numerous by-standers as follows:

"Good People—You are now come to see the latter end of a poor