I purposed to station myself in the smallest in the dark, so that by looking through the window I could both see and hear him, and yet be unperceived myself.

The room, in which I was to be, was one, where the dead were frequently carried to be owned.

We were all in our places at the time appointed.

I directly discovered that it was the same man with whom I had conversed on board the ship in the wet docks.

I heard him distinctly relate many of the particulars of the murder, and acknowledge them all.