Awful murder. : An account of that bloody and cruel murder which was committed on Tuesday last, July 3, 1827, on the body of the Rev. J. Joshua Waterhouse, in his own house, near Huntingdon when the unfortunate gentleman's head was severed from his body by a hatchet, and the rest of his body nearly hewn to pieces.
[Glasgow] : John Muir, printer, Glasgow.,
[1827]
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'From the London papers of Friday July 6, 1827'.
The 81-year-old Mr. Waterhouse was found with his throat cut in a large brewing tub in the kitchen passage of his rectory. It was not long before Joshua Slade, a dismissed servant, was arrested and charged with murder. He confessed that he had concealed himself in the house at night in order to plunder it and had fallen asleep. Mr. Waterhouse, hearing his snores, had dragged him out of his hiding place. In the struggle that ensued Slade had seized a sword and inflicted the wounds from which the old man died.  Waterhouse had been in the later years of his life an eccentric recluse and a miser, caring for little save his cattle, but in his youth he had been a suitor of Mary Wollstonecraft, the author and feminist philosopher. (Cf. Elizabeth Nitchie, "An Early Suitor of Mary Wollstonecraft" PMLA , Mar., 1943, Vol. 58, No. 1 (Mar., 1943), pp. 163-169).
Waterhouse, J. Joshua, Rev., -1827.
Scotland Glasgow.