welve who had confessed should be considered as the murderers,
and suffer accordingly.

They returned again in pursuit of the ruffians, and one of the three
that traveled a westerly course, being more weary than the rest, sat
down at the brow of a hill to rest and refresh himself; and, in
attempting to rise, caught hold of a sprig of cassia, which easily
gave, and excited his curiosity, and made him suspicious of a
deception; on which he hailed his companions, who immediately
assembled, and, on examination, found that the earth had been recently
moved; and on moving the rubbish, discovered the appearance of the
grave, and while they were confabulating about what measures to take,
they heard voices issuing from a cavern in the clefts of the rocks, on
which they immediately repaired to the place, where they heard the
voice of JUBELA exclaim: "O that my throat had been cut across, my
tongue torn out, and my body buried in the rough sands of the sea at
low-water mark, where the tide ebbs and flows twice in twenty-four
hours, ere I had been accessory to the death of so good a man as our
Grand Master, Hiram Abiff"--on which they distinctly heard the voice
of JUBELO exclaim, "O that my left breast had been torn open, and my
heart and vitals taken from thence, and thrown over my left shoulder,
carried into the valley of Jehosaphat, there to become a prey to the
wild beasts of the field, and vultures of the air, ere I had conspired
to take the life of so good a man as our Grand Master, Hiram
Abiff"--when they more distinctly heard the voice of JUBELUM exclaim,
"O that my body had been severed in two in the midst, and divided to
the North and the South, my bowels burnt to ashes in the centre, and
the ashes scattered by the four winds of heaven, that there might not
remain the least trace of remembrance among men or Masons of so vile
and perjured a wretch as I am, who wilfully took the life of so good a
man as our Grand Master, Hiram Abiff. Ah, JUBELA and JUBELO, it was I
that struck him harder than you both--it was I that gave him the fatal
blow--it was I that killed him outright!" on which they rushed
forward, seized, bound, and carried them before King Solomon, who,
after hearing the testimony of the three Fellow Crafts, and the three
ruffians having pleaded guilty, order them to be taken out at the West
gate of the Temple, and executed agreeably to the several imprecations
of their own mouths. King Solomon then ordered fifteen