to bed intoxicated, and complained next day of being robbed of upwards of forty pounds. It seems he had been robbed by two men, who went off immediately for London; the notes being forged, they were stopped in attempting to pass them; at Bow-street they confessed how they came by them. In consequence Lavender and Rivet went to Rochester, and traced Franklin on board the Hydra, from whence they brought him to London. He had in his possession, when taken, four hundred and fifty pounds in notes and cash. He was tried in December sessions, 1797, convicted, and received sentence of death. At the time of his execution he appeared very penitent, and met his fate with a becoming resignation. He suffered on the 24th of January, 1798, aged 29. His body was taken away in a hearse to an Undertaker's in Aldersgate-street.

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GARDELLE, THEODORE, (MURDERER,) was a native of Geneva. Having received an university education, he went to Paris, where he studied miniature painting, and having made a great proficiency in the art, returned to Geneva, where he married, and carried on his business for some years; but not being happy in his domestic connexions, he came to Londor, and lodged with Mrs. King in Leicester fields. Some time afterwards he removed to Knightsbridge; but finding that place inconvenient for his business, he returned to town, and took possession of his former lodgings. On the 19th of February, 1761, Mrs. King's maid-servant ●pened the doors of her parlor, and being ordered

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by her mistress to make a fire, she afterwards went to Gardelle's room, and found him employed. He now gave her two letters to carry to the Haymarket and a guinea to change, to buy a pennyworth of snuff; but returning to her mistress, she ordered her not to go, as there was no one to give an answer at the door. This the girl told to Gardelle, who came down into the parlor to give attendance if any one should call. When the maid was gone out, Mrs. King hearing him walking in the room, called out, "Who is there?" At this instant Gardelle had just sat down to read; but she called him, and saying some harsh things to him, he told her she was an impertinent woman, on which she struck him a violent blow on the left side, and he gave her a push, as if he despised her; but, as she was retreating, her foot hitched in the floor-cloth, she fell, and her head struck against the bed-post with great force. He professed his sorrow for what had happened, and, observing the blood gushing from her mouth, attempted to lift her up, and stop the bleeding; but she threatened to have him punished, and continuing these threats, he became so enraged, that he seized an ivory comb, which had a long sharp pointed handle, and vowed her destruction, unless she desisted from her threats. The woman, however, persevered in her menaces, and at length, in the heat of passion, he pushed the handle of her comb into her throat, which killed her; and then he covered her with the bed clothes. Terrified himself at the fatal blow, he fainted away; and, on his recovery, found the maid-ser. vant in the front parlor, just returned with his snuff. The girl now called her mistress, but not being answered, she got her own breakfast, and then went to clean and adjust Gardelle's apartment;

while she was so doing, she observed him come down from the garret, which she wondered at, as she knew not any business he could have in that part of the house; and she remarked that he had changed his dress, and seemed unusually agitated. He now sent her with a letter to Suffolk street, and on her return told her, that her mistress was gone out in a coach with a gentleman. The maid, knowing that she had not been absent long enough for her mistress to dress herself, did not credit this story, but presumed that she and Gardelle had been very intimate in her absence, Mrs. King not having been a woman of unblemished reputation. A gentleman, named Wright, having lodged on the

rst floor, but gone into the country for the benefit of the air, his servant came at one o'clock, and ordered preparation to be made for his return in the evening. In the interim, the maid thought that her mistress continued in bed, being ashamed to appear after her supposed commerce with Gardelle. The wretched man went frequently up and down stairs till three in the afternoon, when he again sent the girl to Sutolk-street, and during her absence resolved, if possible, to discharge her from the family, to prevent a discovery of the murder. As the girl could not write, and Gardelle knew not enongh of English to draw up a receipt, he wrote to a Mr. Brocket, to write a proper receipt to which the girl might affix her mark. This gentleman asked, if she knew that Gardelle was authorized to discharge her. She answered in the negative; but Brocket told her, he wrote word that he had such authority; that Mrs. King was gone out, and when she returned would bring another servant. The girl thought that the true reason of her dismissal was

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the intimacy between her mistress and Gardelle; and soon after her return the latter paid her her wages, gave her a gratuity, and took her receipt which Mr. Brocket had written. Meeting Mr. Wright's servant as she was going out, she told hin, if he would wait a little, he might probably see her mistress, who had been in bed the whole day; but the man declining to wait, Gardelle was left alone. Hereupon he went to Mrs. King's chamber, stripped the body, and laid it on the bed. Her bloody shift he hid in a bag, under his own bed; and locked his own shirt, which was like wise bloody, in a drawer. The bed-clothes being stained, he left them to soak in a tub of water. Mr. Wright's servant returning, said his master had procured other lodgings, but himself slept in the garret, as it was not convenient to remove his effects. On his asking for Mrs. King next morn◄ ing, Gardelle said she was gone out, and told him she was not come home, when he made a similar enquiry in the evening. On the Saturday, two days after the murder, a gentleman named Mozier, who had been intimate both with Gardelle and Mrs. King, called at the house for the latter to go with him to the opera, according to promise. The answer Gardelle gave was, that she had suddenly gone to Bristol or Bath: the other, however, observing that he seemed out of humor, and attributing it to her absence, sent a girl of the town to keep him company. Gardelle did not seem pleased with her sudden visit, but said he had some shirts to mend, which she promised to begin on the Monday following. In the interim, the body remained as he had left it on the Thursday night, for he had not gone near it since: but now, anxious to conceal his

his crime, he left his bed, and went down stairs: however, being followed by the girl, he was ob liged to desist for the present. He arose soon after seven the next morning, leaving the girl in bed, who did not come down till after ten, and then she found him lighting a fire. How he had employed himself in the mean time can only be conjectured. After breakfast he sent the girl for a charwoman, whom she brought in the afternoon. On the Monday morning Gardelle instructed this charwoman to tell Mr. Wright's footman, that the girl in the house had been sent by Mrs. King to look after it in her absence: but the footman paid no credit to this tale, as he had seen Gardelle and the girl in bed together. This footman, whose name was Pelsey, repeatedly enquired for Mrs. King, and Gardelle as repeatedly said she was gone to Bath or Bristol ; but without being credited. Pelsey going up stairs on Tuesday, remarked a disagreeable smell, and asking Gardelle what it was, he answered the burning of a bone, which was partly true; for the wretch had been burning the bones of the murdered woman in the garret. After Pelsey was asleep at night, Gardelle sent his girl to bed, and then cut Mrs. King's body in pieces. The flesh which he cut from the bones he secreted in the cock-loft, and threw the bowels into the vault. On the Wednesday evening he dismissed his girl, telling her that Mrs. King was to return that night. The footman and charwoman still remained in the house, and the water failing in the cistern, the latter went to the water-tub in the back kitchen, in which she felt something soft, and mentioned this to Pelsey; but there was yet no suspicion of murder: however, the following day the bed-clothes which Gardelle had thrown over Mrs. King's body, were found in

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