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The following is a basic summation of what is on record in the transcripts of the trial of Richard Morris, that took place in Exeter, England in the 1730s.
A butler called his mastertelling him that he had awoken to the mansion being robbed. He accused a young boy employed there, (Richard Tarwell, who disappeared that night), of letting in the burglars and aiding them.
Tarwell, according to the record, woke the master in his bedroom several night later. He ped the master outside to a tree, to a shallow dug grave, HIS grave. Tarwell was a ghost.
The butler had been the person who let in and aided the burglars. It was Tarwell who had awoken in the noise and discovered the burglars. The butler killed the boy to cover his tracks.
The butler confessed and eventually was hanged.
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