at the Red Lion Hotel, where they had called for some rofroshment, partaking of hot brandy and water. ' The man was a stout elderly individual, apparently about fifty-five years of age, tho female being only about twenty. The bodies remained under ■ water for several days, but ou Wednesday last, 1 the 3rd April, at 7.30 a.m., the girl's body was discovered near the Government wharf, and on ' Friday, the sth, the man's body was reoovered. The mystery that has hung about this double 1 suicide has been somewhat unravelled by the 1 evidence tuketi at tho inquest, which, couuected I with other particulars we have, reveals a painful story. The New South Wales Police Gazette, of the 21st February, 1872, has llie following para 1 graph :— .. j Supposed Infanticide. — Richard Crossing, ilate storekeeper, Mudgee, and Bella Crossing, jare strongly suspected of being concerned in the murder of an illegitimate child, tho offspriug of jßella Crossing at Mudgeo. Richard Crossing is /about 55 years of age, 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, stont bnilt, fresh complexion, blue eyes, greyish hair and beard, large teeth, probably soraa de ficient, slightly deaf, rough spoken ; an English mau; generally dressed in Weed.  Bella Cross ing is 18 years of age, -5 feet highjftfir complexion fair hair worn in ringlets, mole on cheek near nose, rather good-looking. The most pressing inquiries should be made to trace tlfese persons, who may havo left the Colony. Warrant issued by Mudgeo Bench, but the body has not yet been found. This explains a paragraph in a letter written by the unfortunate man which wo publish below. From the evideuce taken at the inquest on the bodies, we gather lhat Richard Crossing originally came from Devonshire and was a large farmer at Mudgee, a district North of Bathnrst-, in New South Wales, and was worth £80,000 last Christmas. His children seemed to have con sisted of all boys, and the daughter of a deceased brother had from all appearance been brought up with his lamily. The unfortunate man from his letters seems, notwithstanding his wealth, to have had an uncomfortable home ; he had giren a farm to this girl and had gone to live with her. The girl became enceinte, and about four months before they left Mudgee, a report was circulated that the child had been destroyed. 