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After this , the village policeman repeated the former statements , as to the state of the various rooms , the desk , locked and untouched , the rifle , boat , & c. , further explaining that the distance from the mill to Blewer Station , by the road was an hour and half 's walk , by the fields , not more than half an hour 's . The station-master proved the prisoner 's arrival at midnight , his demand of a day-ticket , his being without luggage , and in a black suit ; and the London policeman proved the finding of the money on his person , and repeated his own explanation of it . The money was all in sovereigns , except one five and one ten-pound note , and Edward Hazlitt , the clerk of the Whitford Bank , was called to prove the having given the latter in change to Mr. Axworthy for a fifty-pound cheque , on the 10th of May last . This same clerk had been at the volunteer drill on the evening of the 5th of July , had there seen the prisoner , had parted with him at dusk , towards nine o'clock , making an engagement with him to meet on Blewer Heath for some private practice at seven o'clock on Monday evening . Thought Mr. Axworthy did sometimes employ young Ward on his commissions ; Mr. Axworthy had once sent him into Whitford to pay in a large sum , and another time with an order to be cashed . The dates of these transactions were shown in the books ; and Hazlitt added , on further interrogation , that Samuel Axworthy could not have been aware of the sum being sent to the bank , since he had shortly after come and desired to see the account , which had been laid before him as confidential manager , when he had shown surprise and annoyance at the recent deposit , asking through whom it had been made . Not ten days subsequently , an order for nearly the entire amount had been cashed , signed by the deceased , but filled up in Samuel 's handwriting .