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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
·
Andrew Lang
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THE
GARDENER'S
GHOST
Perhaps
the
latest
ghost
in
a
court
of
justice
(except
in
cases
about
the
letting
of
haunted
houses)
"appeared"
at
the
Aylesbury
Petty
Session
on
22nd
August,
1829.
On
25th
October,
1828,
William
Edden,
a
market
gardener,
was
found
dead,
with
his
ribs
broken,
in
the
road
between
Aylesbury
and
Thame.
One
Sewell,
in
August,
1829,
accused
a
man
named
Tyler,
and
both
were
examined
at
the
Aylesbury
Petty
Sessions.
Mrs.
Edden
gave
evidence
that
she
sent
five
or
six
times
for
Tyler
"to
come
and
see
the
corpse.
.
.
.
I
had
some
particular
reasons
for
sending
for
him
which
I
never
did
divulge.
.
.
.
I
will
tell
you
my
reasons,
gentlemen,
if
you
ask
me,
in
the
face
of
Tyler,
even
if
my
life
should
be
in
danger
for
it."
The
reasons
were
that
on
the
night
of
her
husband's
murder,
"something
rushed
over
me,
and
I
thought
my
husband
came
by
me.
I
looked
up,
and
I
thought
I
heard
the
voice
of
my
husband
come
from
near
my
mahogany
table.
.
.
.
I
thought
I
saw
my
husband's
apparition,
and
the
man
that
had
done
it,
and
that
man
was
Tyler.
.
.
.
I
ran
out
and
said,
'O
dear
God!
my
husband
is
murdered,
and
his
ribs
are
broken'."
Lord
Nugent--"What
made
you
think
your
husband's
ribs
were
broken?"
"He
held
up
his
hands
like
this,
and
I
saw
a
hammer,
or
something
like
a
hammer,
and
it
came
into
my
mind
that
his
ribs
were
broken."
Sewell
stated
that
the
murder
was
accomplished
by
means
of
a
hammer.
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