circumstances appearing altogether very suspicious, Mr. Moody acquainted Mr. York with it, who had been very assiduous in taking all measures possible for the discover of this horrid assassination.  He falling readily into Mr. Moody’s opinion, they agreed together that the likeliest method to find out the truth was to go to Mr. Willoughby, who was Fisher’s landlord, and known to be a very honest man.  Accordingly they went to him in a tavern in Southampton Street, where they understood he was, and falling into discourse about Mr. Darby’s murder, they insinuated to him the suspicions they had of his lodger.

Returning to his house, Fisher being away, Mr. Willoughby went to his room and broke open a box, and found in it the top and bottom of a snuff-box, a vizard mask, and a pair of laced ruffles.  The remains of the snuff-box Mr. York knew to have belonged to the deceased, and had reason to suspect the ruffles also to have been his, so that it was immediately agreed to go before the Honourable Sir William Thompson,[77] in order to procure a warrant.  There they made an affidavit of the several circumstances attending their discovery, and Sir William upon the examination also of a lady (who produced a piece of lace before she had seen the ruffle, and declared that if it were Mr. Darby’s it must tally therewith, which on a comparison it did exactly) granted a warrant.  It appeared also at the same time, upon the oath of Mr. Willoughby, that the day Mr. Darby was murdered, Fisher borrowed half-a-crown of him to pay his washerwoman, and was in the utmost necessity for money.

A woman swore that a person very like Fisher was hovering about Mr. Darby’s chambers the night the murder was committed, and it was proved by the oath of another person that Fisher came not to his lodgings till two o’clock on Tuesday morning, on which Mr. Darby was murdered.  About eight o’clock a porter came and informed Fisher of Mr. Darby’s being murdered, at which he shewed little concern and locked himself up for some hours.

Things being thus over at Sir William Thompson’s, Mr. Willoughby, Mr. York, and Mr. Moody, returned to Fisher’s lodgings.  About two o’clock in the morning he came in, and they seized him, having a constable and proper assistance for that purpose.  On Sunday noon, he was carried before Sir William Thompson in order to be examined, where he said: 

That about the latter end of the week in which Mr. Darby was murdered, as he was passing through Lincoln’s Inn Fields, about four in the afternoon, be took up under the wall of Lincoln’s Inn Gardens, a white paper parcel in which were contained several things of great value belonging to the deceased; some of the diamonds he acknowledged he sold to a jeweller in Paternoster Row for ten guineas, the watch he pawned for nine guineas to a person at a brazier’s in Bond Street, and sold the gold chain and swivels to a person in Lombard Street.  He absolutely denied all knowledge of the murder, and said that at the time it happened he was at a billiard table in Duke Street, by St. James’s.  When taken there was found upon him two of Mr. Darby’s rings with the stones taken out, wrapped up in a paper, with his seal the arms of which were taken out, and in these circumstances he was committed to Newgate.