The Sun.
London, England, 1823-12-04 00:00:00

THE LATE MURDER.

TlEnTronn GAOL.—Yesterday morning Mr.
WILSON, the Governor of the county gaol, received a letter
from Mr. WorrniEn, the Keeper of Newgate, informing him
that he bad been served with a writ of Habeas Corpus, to pro-
duce Thomas Thurtell as a witness at the approaching trial of
the prisoners for the murder of Mr. Weare. Mr. Wontner also
requested that an arrangement might be made for the safe cus-
tody of Thomas Thurtell in the gaol during his stay at
Hertford.

Mr. James, a respectable farmer from Gloucestershire, who
is married to Probert's mother, arrived at the gaol yesterday
morning, and had a long interview with his step-son. He gave
him some money for present use, and also informed him that
more was placed in the hands of Mr. Williams, his solicitor, for
defraying the expences of his trial. Mr. James left the town
shortly after his interview with Probert, for the purpose of dis-
patching a messenger to Lidbroke, in Gloucestershire, and an-
other to Kingston, Surrey, for some witnesses whose attendance
he desires on the trial.

Mr. Jay and Mr—Fenton were for several hours yesterday
again in close conference with. Thurtell, whose spirits and de.
meanous remain unchanged. Hunt adhere* with confidence to
the legal force of the confession :which he made before the Ma.
gistrates, and says that he will not believe until he shall find
himself on the day of trial included in the capital indictment.
Thurtell's solicitors were to. decide last night in a consultation
with their counsel in London upon the affidavits which they
mean to urge in support of their motion for the 'postponement
of the trial.
Mr. Justice Park has notified his intention of beim; in Court
to ine,A the Grand Jury at 12 o'clock on Thursday. Ills Lord-
ship will dine and sleep this night (Wednesday) at the seat of
Lord Vert'lam, the herd Lieutenant of the County.
The names of the prisoners indicted fbr the murder of Mr.
'Stream are entered in the folloviing' manner in the calendar
Jviiu Thurtell, aged 30, silk-merchant, Norwich ; committed
Oct. 30, 1023, by Robert Clutterhuck, Esq., charged on the
oaths of Philip Smith and others with the wilfully and feloni-
ously murdering Wm. Mare, late of Lyon's-Inn, in the
county of Middlesex. gentleman, by shooting him with a car-
tain loaded pistol. The said John Murton is also detained
by virtue of a warrant of Benjamin Rooke, gentleman, coro-
ner of the said count'of Hertford, charged on oath with the
murder of the said 1,1, tn. Weare. •
Joseph Hunt, aged 26, gentleman, King-street, Golden-
square ; William Probert, aged 33, wino-nierchant, Elstree,
alerts ; committed Nov. 1, 1023, by Benjamin Roolze, gent.,
Coroner of the said County of Hertford, charged on oath with
being accessories before the fact to the wilful murder of Wm.
Weare.
An evening Paper has stated, that last Sunday, for the
first time, the Chaplain performed divine service in the gaol
at Hertford, before the prisoners indicted for the murder
of Mr. Weare. This statement is untrue, for it is known
to the governor of the gaol, his family, and all the inmates
of the prison, that the chaplain has regularly performed divine
service on the Sabbath day for the prisoners ; and that Thurtell,
Prohert, and Hunt, have attended the chapel on each successive
Sunday since their committal, and heard with decorous atten-
tion the service and the exhortations of the Chaplain, as well as
repeatedly expressed to their respective Solicitors the cense.'
lat-9n they have derived from the daily, visits of the Rev. Gen.
tlenian, and the mild and earnest instruction which he has
imparted to them.