his room. The bloody bed-clothes he had put, on the evening of Sunday, into the water-tub in the back kitchen. Here they were discovered on the Thursday by a charwoman, who had been hired on the Sunday before to do the house work. Suspicion, already awakened by Mrs. King's continued absence, was strengthened. The discovery, by a friend of Gardelle, in a box he had deposited with him, of a watch, bracelet, &c., belonging to the missing woman, aggravated the suspicion. Gardelle was taken into custody on a warrant granted by Justice Fielding. The house was searched; the bloody marks, the bloody bed-clothes and linen, the half-charred bones, the half-dried remains were found, and the deed at last confessed by its miserable perpetrator. The story presents curious parallels, in several points both of the murder and attempted concealment of the victim, to cases which have excited the town in very recent times. The horror it caused led to the criminal being executed in the Haymarket, opposite the end of Panton Street, and afterwards hung in chains on Hounslow Heath. A head in a white cap, published among the doubtful plates in Ireland's Graphic Illustrations of Hogarth, is called "Theodore Gardelle." Hogarth may have painted him as he did other sensational criminals, such as Sarah Malcolm and Lord Lovat, and it is said Miss Blaney and Jack Sheppard. W. W. Ryland, engraver to the King, who worked under Reynolds, and was one of the experts who certified (February 21, 1773) to the state of Hogarth's plates for his widow (see p. 338), also came to a bad end, being executed, in 1783, for forgery of acceptances on two bills of exchange for £7114, with intent to defraud the East India Company. Although many of the Books are offered at less than half their published prices, they are warranted clean and perfect, and the same as if purchased at the full price. THE STANDARD LIBRARY EDITION. 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