The Sun.
London, England, 1824-02-23 00:00:00

HUNT'S CONFESSION.—(ConcIuded.)

The next morning (Saturday), as soon as it
was sufficiently light, I went with John Thurtell to the lane to
look for the pistol andpenknife ; but we were unable to make
anY very particular search; because some labourers were near
:tire spot, employed in repairing the road. We however saw a
great quantity of blo6tf at the place "where John Thurtell said
he had cut Mr. Weare's throat. Thurtell, in order to account
for our being there, and „also .for .the blood, if they should
discover it, pretended to the labourers that we had been up-
set there overnight in the gig. About eight o'clock Probert
came -down stairs, and we told him we had been looking in
the lane for the lost things, but could not find them ; and he
promised, after breakfast, to take the dogs, and go to look
after them.

In the course of the morning he took us round to the shrub-
bery, and pointed out a spot where he thought it would be best
to bury the body • because, as he said, it was very:. much hid
by the shrubs and trees • and he desired us to bring down a
new spade from town, as he had not one that was fit for use ; and
he said, that he would assist at digging in the night-time, be-
cause he understood it better than us ; and he said, " I will
not leave here until every thing is safely stowed away."
After we had breakfasted, Probert put the bag, the box, and
the gun into the chaise, and John Thurtell and I went to Lon-
don. On reaching xford-street, John Thurtell got down,
saying he would go the hack streets to Tetsall's, for fear he
should meet Upson, who had the warrant against him for the
Fire-Office prosecution ; and he desired me to take all the
things home to my lodgings, and return the horse and chaise,
and then join him at Tetsall's.

On the Sunday morning, I again got the horse and chaise
for John Thurtell and me, to go down to the cottage, and the
spade was put into the chaise. On the road we overtook
Thomas Thurkll, and John got out of the gig to let his bro-
ther ride. On arriving at the cottage, Thomas threw the spade
over the hedge into the field, and Probert afterwards went and
fetched it from thence, and again pointed out the, place where
the body should be buried; and in the course of the morning,
while walking in the garden, J. Thurtell told his brother
Thomas, in my presence, where the body was secreted. He
pointed to the place in the pond, and said, " There lays the
b-y thief, safe enough, who robbed me of 3001., and would
not lend me 51.; that's the way all such b----s should be
served ; and it will not be long before we have Holding there."
Thomas Thurtell laughed, and said it was a famous place for
the purposs, because there was no other house near.

In the course of the afternoon Probert went to Mr. Nicholls,
and, was absent about two hours. On his return he appeared
greatly agitated ; he called me into the garden, and told me he
had been much alarmed, in consequence of his having seen two
sr three gentlemen at Mr. Nicholls', one of whom told him
that he had heard the report of a pistol about eight o'clock on
Friday night ; that another man had said he heard two pistols ;
and Mr. Nicholls said a report was raised that dreadful groans
had been heard, and some one calling out for help, and say-
ing, " 011! John, for God's sake spare me, and I'll give you
all the money I've robbed you of." That at the time this was
mentioned, he (Probert) had a glass of gin and water in his
hand, which, with his great fright and trembling, shook very
much, and he was so agitated that he thought he should have
dropped, and had no doubt he should actually have fallen if he
had not sat.down ; and he was very much afraid lest his agita-
tion should have been discovered. While Probert was relating
this to me John Thurtell came out, and Probert repeated it to
him, and added, that Mr. Nicholls had talked about dragging
the pond for large fish, and said, " Of course, if this is done,
the body will be found. John Thurtell appeared alarmed at
this information, and said, " Then I am done."
After what had passed at Mr. Nicholls's, we all became very
much afraid that some stir would be made in the business;
and in order to prevent the boy from being questioned, or giv-
ing any information as to what he had seen or observed, it was
determined to take him to London. And on the Sunday night
it was settled that the boy should go up in the chaise with me
and Thomas Thurtell, m order that one of the Thurtells might
get him a place in London.
Several plans were then talked of for disposing cf the body.
Thomas Thurtel suggeited, that it would be a safe way to get
rid of it, is cut off the head and bury it, and bring the body to
the house in Manchester-buldings, and secrete it there until a
convenient opportunity occurred of throwing it into the Thames;
and then, if it floated, no one would be able to recognize it ;
and this I understood, was to be adopted.
Accordingto the arrangement which had been made the over-
pla n'
night, the boy came up to London, on the Monday morning,
with Thomas Thurtell and me, in Probert's gig.
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betters , , Ennison, and myself, dined at
Noyes,
Thomas said to his brother,
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John,eha ell 18%i
natTni threego down and tell Probert that Hunt's
mother has declined being bail, so that he may get another."—
John, who understood what was meant, replied " Very well ;
Hunt, you go and get the horse and chaise agpin, and we will
ride down:" And he directed me to drive to Tyburn-gate, and
there wait for him."

It was nearly six o'clock before John Thurtell joined me; he
was dressed in a great coat and trousers over his breeches,
which 1 had never before seen him wear. On reaching Elstree
we stopped at Field's for nearly an hour, and then went on to
the cottage.
On seeing Probert, he expressed considerable fear of a dis-
covery, and begged that the body might be removed as early as
possible that night from his premises ; and he stated his deter-
mination, in consequence of the reports in the neighbourhood,
to leavethe cottage entirely, with his family, on the following
Thursday. Probert suggested the propriety of cutting.all the
clothes off the deceased, so as to prevent his being identified;
and he undertook to rend or cut them into small shreds, and
distribute them in such a manner as that they could never be
put together again or be known.
Between 12 and 1 o'clock Probert and John Thurtell left
me with the females, while they, under pretence of getting the
bores harnessed and chaise ready, took the body from the pond,
and cut off the clothes. Probert took out with him a white
handled knife for the purpose. After they had been out some
time, Probert came in and told me the chaise was all ready,
and that Thurtell was waiting for me. I then took leave of
Probert and his family, and on joining John Thurtell,' per-
ceived the dead body, enclosed in a sack, laying in front of the
gig. We went on with it to the pond near Elstree, and there
threw it in. That pond I understood was selected, because it
contained several feet in depth of soft mud, into which the body
would sink, and there was therefore no danger of its being dis-
covered. We then came together to Coventry-street, where I
put him down, and after returning the horse and chaise to the
place from whence it was hired, I went to my own lodgings.
On Tuesday afternoon I joined the Thurtells at Tetsall's ;
and about 3 o'clock Probert's chaise was brought there, and
Thos. Thurtell desired me to go down to Probert to arrange
about bringing up his children the next morning. I accord-
ingly went, bat happening to stop at Field's in my way down,
I heard some people talking about a woman having been found
drowned in a pond ; and suspecting it might be Weare's body
that had been discovered, I became greatly alarmed, and in-
stead of going on to Gill's-hill Cottage, I returned directly to
town to the Thurtells, and told them what I had heard, and
my fears that something was wrong, on which John was as
much frightened as myself, and lie said to his brother, " You
had better go down, Tom, and inquire the particulars, and you
can do it with safety, because no one knows you." Thomas
Thurtell accordingly went down almost directly, with the same
horse and gig, and that was the way he happened to be at Pro-
bert's when the officers went there and apprehended him.
All the things belonging to Mr. Weare had been taken to
my lodgings, until John Thurtell should have an opportunity
of taking them to some man in the city whom he said he knew
would buy them ; but as there was some danger of suspicion fall-
ing on us, and a probability of a search being made at our lodg-
ings, it was determined to get rid of any thing that was likely to
be identified, and also to remove the marks of blood from the
great-coat which had been worn by John Thurtell when he
committed the murder, and which was still under my bed.
We accordingly went to my lodgings, and sent my wife out on
an errand to redeem a coat of mine that was in pledge at a pawn-
brokers' in St. Martin's-lane, while we did what, was necessary.
We tried, by washing the sleeves of the coat, to remove the
stains of blood, but could not succeed, and it was therefore de-
termined to cut the sleeves, off, and throw them separately
away, and secrete or otherwise dispose of the body of the coat.
The sleeves were left with me to get rid of, and I threw them
down the privy of the house where I lodged, and the
other part without the sleeves was dropped in Mary-le-bone.
Thurtell cut Mr. Weare's hat in small pieces, and threw the
pieces in a street near Maddox-street. He also threw a white
handled razor and strop on the pavement in a street facing Mad-
dox-street and Bond-street, which was directly after picked up
by a man accidentally passing by. Mr. Weare's tortoise-shell
comb and hair-brush he dropped in the middle of the same
street, and a housewife filled with thread and needles belonging
to the deceased was thrown behind the railings of a house in
Maddox-street.

The next morning I was apprehended, and John Thurtell
also, when after undergoing a short examination at Bow-
street, we were conveyed to Watford ; and there, in conse-
quence of the solicitations and promises made to me, 1 dis-
closed where the body was concealed, and confessed many of
the leading particulars of the horrid transaction. I also told
the officers what articles they would still find belonging to Mr.
Wear, at my lodgings.
The reason for marking out Mr. Graham, who is, as I
understand, related to Mr. Clutterbuck, was, to get rid of a
prosecution he was carrying on against some parties who 1,10
won a large sum of money from him : and Weare and others
were supposed to be urging on the prosecution, because the
party who won the money refused to let him share with them.
JOSEPH HUNT.

WAR WITH ALGIERS.

The intelligence of the actual commencein tit
of hostilities between this country end Algiers/
was announced in the greater part of our irpres-
- on Saturday. We now, however, for the ii
formation of the whole of our Readers, give the
subjoined official notification of the event, free'
Saturday night's Gazette. The Algerines will, 01
course, soon be compelled to sue for peace'
In the mean time, the cause of Greece
will derive some benefit from the gallants/
of our cruisers being employed against a
part of their enemies. An Algerine squadron
cannot now venture to co-operate with the
Turkish fleet, should the Porte, notwithstanding
the unfortunate issue of all its naval operation 67
undertake another campaign on that element,
which! the skill and activity of the Greeks have
already been so frequently triumphant.
[From the Landon Gazette of Saturday night.]
ADMIRALTY -OFFICE, FEBRUARY 21.

Dispatches, dated the 31st of last month, and Ist instant'
have this morning been received at this office from the Hon•
Capt. SPENCER, Or his Majesty's ship Naiad (who had been