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Night after night for three long months poor Tom saw the ghost, but the general wouldn't listen. Tom grew thin and ill with stress. Eventually the alterations at Lawers were complete and the pair moved out. Years later, when the general had long since passed away, his niece received a visit from one of her friends. This friend's family now lived in Wrychtishousis Mansion, and she wanted to know if the general had ever seen anything odd during his stay. Tom was summoned. He gladly told them all he'd seen, and it matched the new residents' experiences they'd seen the headless lady too.
Wrychtishousis passed into the hands of the Merchant Company and was turned into a school and hospital with money left by James Gillespie. During the renovations the built-in cupboard in the basement was removed. Workmen noticed the original floorboards beneath the cupboard had been cut out and replaced with different ones, and decided to investigate. Underneath the floor there was a rotten, damp and clearly homemade coffin. Clearly, because it was made too small for the corpse of the woman and baby inside it and so her head had been cut off to make it fit.
Near the coffin was a thimble, a pair of scissors and a handwritten confession from the murderer. The confession solved the mystery. A previous owner of the house had gone to war, leaving his wife and child in the care of his younger brother. Sadly he'd died abroad and all his wealth passed on to the baby. The much trusted younger brother had then murdered his sister in law and his nephew in order to inherit it all for himself.
