Here and There.
The King and Lord Halifax were playmates as boys. When the latter was Charlie Wood to his* intimates; 'Lord Halifax used often to go over.to Windsor to play cricket with his future sovereign. ..It is Lord Halifax who tells the following story" as having come withm his own experience: — Some years ago one of Mr Milnes Gaskell's tenants was found dead — evidently murdered in one of his woods hear Wakefield. A very bad character in the neighborhood was arrested and charged with the crime, bii<* gotofE oh the ground that, instead of measuring the footprints near the body and then the boots of the accused, the boots were taken to the spot and .fitted into the footprints; so admitting of its being said that the latter had been made, by pressing the boots into them. Although'acquitted, the "man was always suspected, and if the subject ;were mentioned in the factory where he obtained employment, would worE himself_in*o a furious rage, and pray the devil rbight take him if he were guilty. One day, just as he was finished declahping,* he was caught by the mill machinery aud torn to pieces. The iron claw which had seized and pulled him in is that known, as the " Devil."
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 771, 4 December 1903, Page 2
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209Here and There. Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 771, 4 December 1903, Page 2
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