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THE LAYMAN MYSTERY.
THE following remarkable story has
never before been published In Its
complete form. Years ago the mala
features of It were printed in the New
York Courant but, for the sake of cer
tain parties Involved, the full narrative
was suppressed.
George Layman was a farmer, resid
ing near Belby, In Yorkshire, England.
Though not an educated man by any
means, he was above the average far
mer of the time. He had a good home,
well furnished, and a flue farm excel
lently stocked. He was twenty-eight
years old, and unmarried. With him
resided an only sister of seventeen and a
girl of remarkable beauty. In 1820,
when this narrative opens, brother and
sister were living in the greatest affec
tion and harmony. In those days it
was customary to employ young men,
generally the sons of other farmers, and
to board and lodge them in the house.
George Layman had seven such. One
of them was named Thomas Miller. He
was about nineteen or twenty, well
built, and exceptionally good looking
aud attractive. He was exceedingly well
informed, and spoke without any of the
peculiarities of dialect for which York
shire men are noted. He came to the
farm-house with a stick in his hand
and a bundle on his shoulder, and
obtained a night's lodging. He got into
conversation with the farmer and the
hands, and, though he admitted that he
knew nothing of farming, but had
worked at the trade of a gunsmith, he
expressed a desire to remain and make
himself useful about the place. Layman
assented. Miller joined the other young
men, and was apparently soon deeply
interested in his work.
An acquaintance soon sprang up be
tween Miller and Fanny Layman, the
farmer's sister. Unfortunately It took a
clandestine form, and the lovers for
such they soon became met in secret.
The consequences which might be
expected followed, and Miller soon after
ward disappeared. When it was appar
ent to her brother and neighbors that
she was to become a mother, she solemn
ly averred that she had been married to
Miller, and produced a certificate show
ing such to be the fact. Miller disap
peared March 20, 1820, when Fanny was
within three months of her confine
ment. On April 17th following, a stranger
arrived at the small inn in the adjacent
village, and sent for Farmer Layman.
He represented that he was auxious to
hire a run for cattle, and had heard that
Layman's land was peculiarly adapted.
A long conversation followed, and Lay
man did not return home until rather
late. On the road thither, and not more
than half a mile from his home, he
came upon a carriage standing in the
road. Several men were around, and
one held a lantern while the others were
putting on the fore wTreel, which had
come oft in a rut. Layman paused a
moment, and as he did so he heard a
stifled groan from the vehicle.
"What's the matter ?" he asked.
" Any one hurt?"
" Oh, no," was the reply ; " the lady
is only alarmed that is all. "
"Help help 1" was heard in tones
that seemed to indicate a struggle to free
the speaker's mouth from a muffling
hood.
"What means this ?" Layman in
quired, excitedly, springing from his
horse and going toward the door of the
carriage.
He was confronted by a stalwart, gray
haired man in a capacious cloak, who
thrust him aside with his left hand, and
said :
"Do not interfere,, my friend, the
lady is my daughter, and she is slightly
alarmed that is all."
At the same time another pdtson
stepped up to Layman and whispered ;
" She has been long confined in a
lunatic asylum, and we are just convey
ing her home. Make no alarm, or she
may have to return."
Thus appealed to, the farmer passed
on, and before two minutes had elapsed
the coach passed out of sight and hear
ing in an opposite direction.
When the farmer reached home he
found that his sister was missing. Soon
after he left for the inn a person brought
a message for her, and she walked down
the road with him. That was the last
seen of her. '
Search was made all over the nel gh
horhood, but it was unavailing. The
man at the hotel who had sent for
Layman vanished the same night, and
it was believed that he was lu conspiracy
with the abductors of the girl, and on
him devolved the part to get the farmer
out of the way while his sister was re
moved. What was the object of the abduction?
That was the interesting question. Sev
eral days passed, and the neighborhood
wag still in excitement over the missing
girl, when a servant cleaning out the
grate in the room occupied by the
stranger at the inn, found a scrap of
paper clinging to the chimney. It had
been partly burned with others, hut had
been carried up the chimney by a draft
and clung to a protuberance. This scrap
of paper was thought nothing of by the
servant, and would have been thrown
away If the landlord had not seen it, and
observed on it the name " Layman."
This attracted his attention, and he read
all that was there. It was as follows :
gel the Layman
the way, jou can easily entice tunny
Use what aids find need.
Saldom.
The paper had been formed along the
fourth line, and then torn off at the
corner. It was conveyed to Layman,
and kept by him as likely to be of value.
There was small doubt that Fanny was
in the vehicle which Layman overtook
on his way home, and that the screams
which he heard were her cries for help.
Could It be that Miller was at the bot
tom of the abduction ? Layman re
membered that Miller had frequently
written in an album belonging to Fan
ny, and in comparing that writing with
ttie writing on the scrap of paper they
were found to be Identical. Layman
made his way to York to consult a
lawyer as to the best means of discover
ing his sister. When he reached that
city almost the first thing he saw in a
newspaper was an account of the dis
covery of the body of a murdered woman
in the River Aire, just above Leeds,
near a place known as the Forge. The
woman was pregnant, and her linen was
marked " F. L." Feeling sure that this
must be his sister, for the description
.answered to her in every particular,Lay
man started back home.
On the outskirts of Selby he was wny
laid by footpads, and robbed. Then he
was left on the highway, half dead. He
was found by a laboring man who rec
ognized him, and had him conveyed
home. When Layman recovered con
sciousness, he remembered distinctly
that one of the footpads said, when ex
postulated with by the other :
" You know as well as I do that the
understanding was that we were to kill
him."
Layman was a vigorous man, aud
three days after his last mishap he was
on his way to Leeds. Arrived at Kirk
still, he found that the body had been
claimed by an old woman as that of her
daughter, and buried. Layman went
before Mr. James Hargraves, then a
Magistrate, and applied to have the
body disinterred. Leave was granted,
and the next morning was appointed for
the work. During the night, however,
the grave was opened and the corpse re
moved. Who the depredators were was
involved In mystery. Layman saw In
It a conspiracy to defraud justice, and
by a wonderful stroke of good fortune
hit upon the very device which the de
spoilers of the grave had adopted. While
examining the church-yard and the
neighboring field, he observed deep foot
prints underneath a very high wall, the
ascent of which was, however, easy to
an unencumbered person. These foot
steps led both ways, and Layman con
cluded that persons rifling the grave had
both approached it and quitted It by that
way. But it was next to impossible that
they could have done this with the cofllu
in their possession, and therefore he ar
rived at the conclusion that the corpse
had been reburied somewhere within the
precincts of the grave-yard. A search
was made, but no newly turned soil was
found. Mr. Hargrave suggested exam
ining the old-fashioned square raised
tombs, of which there were many In
the grounds, and sure enough, under'
one of the slabs was found the coffin aud
the remains. Layman identified the
body as his sister's and It bore marks to
show that the girl had been strangled.
By this time the authorities of Leeds,
York and Belby had become alike in
terested in the crime. That the man
Miller was at the bottom of It they had
every reason to believe. But who was
he, that he could bring his instruments
to bear so readily whenever he desired to
use them? And what was his object
in accomplishing the death of the
girl ? The word " Seldon" at the end of
the writing on the scrap of paper found
in the chimney was evidently the wri
ter's name. Was Seldon the same per
son as Miller, and was that person inter,
ested in getting out of the way the girl
whom he lawfully married ? Mr. Har
grave's shrewdness seemed to ofl'er a
rational solution of the mystery, name
ly : That Miller had married the girl
unknown to wealthy parents or friends,
aud on their learning of the fact they
had taken measures to remove her, in
order that the disgrace of marrying be
neath his station, might be removed,
and that he. might be at liberty to fulfill
some other marriage engagement which
they had arranged. One thing was re
solved on to look for Seldon. There
was a family of that name in the North
Hiding, residing near Birmingham, aud
another branch of the same family at
Stanhope, in Durham. All investiga
tion, however, failed to connect any
member of either family with Fanny
Laymau. There was only one man of a
suitable age In either, and he had been
traveling abroad at the very time of
Miller stay with the Laymans. In
the meantime it ought to be said, a Con
oner's Jury had sat In the case of Fan
ny Layman or Miller, and returned a
verdict of wilful murder against some
party or parties unknown.
Two years passed away. Layman
went to London on pleasure or busi
ness, and as countrymen are wont, vis
ited the House of Commons. He saw a
gentleman coming out of St. Stephens'
who attracted his attention. The young
man, Miller, stood before' him there
was no doubt of that. He inquired who
he was, and learned that he was James
Aubrey Seldon, a member of Parliament
from the North Hiding of Yorkshire,
and that this was his first session In the
House.
Layman returned the next day and
watched for the arrival of the members.
In due time Seldon came, and Layman
had a good view of him. No doubt re
mained on his mind as to his being
Miller. Layman was in doubt what to
do. He had 150 pounds In his pocket
book, and he said to himself that he
ought to secure the services of a lawyer.
He asked for the Courts, aud meeting a
host of lawyers coming out in wig and
gown, he stopped one. This happened
to be none other than the renowned
Brougham, who listened to the man pa
tiently. Calling a younger lawyer, he
briefly Informed him of the facts, and
he asked Layman to wait where he was
for a moment. The lawyer returned
with a cab, and he and Layman drove
to Bow street. A warrant was procured
and Seldon was arrested.
Now follows the most remarkable part
of the strange narrative.
Seldon denied all knowledge of Lay
man or his family, or that he ever went
by the name of Miller. His hand
writing, however, was shown to corres
pond exactly with that of Miller, and
that of the man who signed "Seldon"
to the scrap of paper found In the chim
ney of the inn.
Seldon 's father was also positively
identified by Layman as the gray-haired
man who thrust him away from thecar
rlnge on the night of Fanny's disappear
ance. A host of witnesses, however,
swore that the elder Seldon was at home
at that time and sick in bed. To crown
all, while Seldon was still under exam
ination, a young man answering Mil
ler's description somewhat, surrendered
hlmeelf to the authorities, and confessed
that he was Miller, and ha'd enticed Fan
ny away and murdered her. The ad
mission of this cold-blooded murder
aroused the indignation of all who heard
it. He was tried, convicted and sen
tenced to be hanged within forty-eight
hours. At the last moment he was re
prieved, and his sentence was subse
quently commuted to banishment for
life.
Layman persisted in his belief to the
very last that Seldon was the real man,
and his conviction was intensified by
what occurred some years later. There
was a hunt at Rock Hall, the seat of
Sir Joseph Rockcllffe, Layman's land
lord. Seldon was there, and following
the hounds he took a path which no one
knew but .those acquainted with Lay
man's farm. This strengthened the far
mer's belief that Seldon and Miller were
Identical.
But the most confirmatory and dam
ning proof Is yet to be given. Inquiry
showed that the man representing him
self as Miller was pardoned the very day
his sentence of death was commuted to
transportation, and that he was actually
keeping a hotel at Richmond, in York
shire, within a few miles pf the coun
try Beat of the Seldons, and passing un
der his own name, Marfit. This fact
was ascertained in 1832. The very same
year one King was hanged at York
for highway robbery. Before the execu
tion he made a confession of his crimes,
and among other things admitted that
he was one of the gang who assailed
Layman, near Selby, soon after the
murder of his sister. He was formerly
a groom with the Seldon family, and
confessed that he was hired to aid two
gypsies in dispatching Layman and
getting rid of his sister. He declined to
say who hired him, but enough escaped
him to show that his employer was the
elder Seldon.
Finally, in 1841, the wife of James
Aubrey Seldon filed a bill of divorce
agaluBt her husband, asking for a sepa
rate maintenance. One of the facts set
up was that the respondent was subject
to fits of great mental excitement, dur
ing which he recounted crimes which
he Bald he had committed, and among
them the instigation of the murder of
one Fanny Layman, to whom he was
married clandestinely. An attempt was
thereupon made to revive the inquiry
iuto the murder, but Marflt disappeared
from Richmond and Seldon was placed
in a lunatic asylum, near Durham.
Thence he escaped in 1847, and nothing
was heard of bim for several weeks, un
til his remains were found on a heap of
I straw in an old barn ou, Layman's
iarm.
Taking all the circumstances together
there is no doubt that James Aubrey Sel
don and Miller were the same. Seldon
had returned from the Continent, aud
took a fancy to stroll through the coun
try toward homo. On his way he came
to Layman's and there saw Fanny.
That was the attraction which held him.
Finding his attempts to seduce her in
vain, he married her secretly. On dis
covering the condition in which she
was, he abandoned her and returned
home.
By some means his father, who was a
desperate and unprincipled man, learned
of his marriage, and a plan was devised
to remove her. In the first Instance, it
is supposed that the GypBles were to ab
duct her and Inveigle her into some sit
uation which would warrant a divorce.
Subsequently, however, her death was
resolved on, whether with the saction of
the Seldons or not Is uncertain. The
old woman who claimed the girl's body
was doubtless one of the Gypsies. The
alleged sickness of the elder Seldon must
have been a trumped up story, to which
it was not difficult to get retainers to
swear, especially when all the authori
ties, from the Constables to the King,
were anxious to cover up the guilt of the
real culprits.
THE CAUSE OF THUNDER.
I HAVE lately seen it stated in atext
book upon electricity and magnet
ism that the phenomenon of thunder is
not fully accounted for by any theory as
yet brought forward. Whether this be
so or not, I am not sufficiently acquaint
ed with the subject to say. I believe the
commonly accepted theory is that a
vacuum is created in the path of the
electric spark, and that the subsequent
in-rush of the air produces the detona
tion. If, however, it be allowed that
the electric spark is not a material sub
stance, but that it is merely a natural
force or mode of action, the possibility
of this theory is at once disposed of. It
Is a wellrknown fact that the passage of
electricity in a high state of tension
through a mixture of oxygen and hy
drogen, not only causes an explosion,
but also causes the formation of water,
and it seems to me that, given the exist
ence of free oxygen and hydrogen in the
region of the electric disturbance, the
phenomenon of thunder is sufficiently
accounted for. Whether the normal
amount of hydrogen In the air is suffi
cient to cause the stupendous noise of
thunder I am not competent to judge;
but if not, I would suggest that the pres
ence of an abnormal amount might be
accounted for by the process of the elec
trolysis, which would probably occur
between the two poles of the thunder
cloud before the tension became so great
as to cause a rupture of the circuit and
consequent discharge of the electric
spark. I would also draw your atten
tion to the fact that every thunder-clap
Is Immediately followed by an increase
in the quantity of water deposited In the
shape of rain. Does this not point to
formation of water by the explosion of
the gases? As I myself am unable.both
of means and time, to Investigate the
matter, I should be glad to find that
some one better qualified had taken the
subject in hand. It is a frequent exper
iment of Dr. Tyndall's to show his audi
ence red clouds. I feel convinced that,
by following this line of inquiry he
could give us a real thunder-storm.
Nature.
A Kind Hearted Judge.
Romance would seem out of place In
the judicial chair of a higher court, but
three case3 are on record during the
past three months where an ' English'
judge has not only evinced the tact of
woman, but her a love of romance as
well, and wound up a somewhat bitter
lawsuit by marying off'the plaintiff and
defendent. A young man and woman
who were some distant relation to each
other, were recently contesting their
right to a piece of property, the one
claiming possession under an old lease,
and the other under an old will. The
case became sorely entangled, and the
judge said: "It strikes me that there is.
only one way out of this difficulty that,
can give satisfaction to both of you..
Here is a respectable young man of good,
possessions and prospects who would
certainly have appeared In a more favor,
able light had he not been so piqued by
the plaintiff, who, on the other hand, is
naturally a very nice young woman.
They can get married and both live hap
pily on the land which they are now
disputing about, but if they go on with
this ungraceful suit, the value will soon
be frittered away between the lawyers."
The young woman blushed and the
young man appeared very awkward, but
a stay of proceedings was had to give
the contestants time to get married,after.
which the suit was withdrawn.
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