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suited on the best steps to be taken; and in the cow se
of conversation, John said; as he had brought down a
spade, he would, in the course of the night, itncleavenr
to dig a hole to bury the body. The next; morntngrlohti
Thurtell shewed me, Probert, and hit brother Thomas,
where he had commenced digging the bole, but said he
found he had not sufficient strength to complete it,
and bad therefore filled it up again ; and it was arranged
that the body should be removed that same night to
some spot where it could be concealed.
After what had passed at Mr. Nicholls's, we all be-
came very much afraid that some stir would be made
in the business; and in order to prevent the boy from
being questioned, or giving any information as to what
he bad 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, in order that one of the Thurtell's
might get him a place in London.
On the Monday morning, John Thurtell told his bro-
ther, Probert, and myself, that he had been endeavour-
ing to dig a hole for the body, but finding the task too
laborious, he had given it up. He shewed us where he
had made the attempt, and the earth appeared to have
been newly disturbed. Several plans were then talked
of for disposing of the body. • • sug-
gested, that it would be a safe way to get rid of it, to
cut off the head and bury it, and bring the body to the
house in Manchester-buildings, and secrete it there until
a convenient opportunity occurred of throwing it into
the Thames ; arid then, if it floated, no one would be
able to recognise it : and this plan, I understood, was
to be adopted.
According to the arrangement which had been made
overnight, the boy came up to London, on the Monday
morning, with • • and me, in Probert's
gig ; and as the lad was with us, nothing particular
passed, except, when we were passing over a small
bridge, near Edgware, • • , pointing to
the water, said; 44 This would not be a bad place." At
another time lie said, " we might find some difficulty
to get rid of the job ; but it was well planned to leave
the big one (meaning Probert) at home."
e a • quitted the chaise at the corner of
Maddox-street, and sent me on to his attorney, in Cle-
ment's Inn, to inquire if the bail had been accepted. I
went there, but the attorney was not within; and, on
my going to Tetsall's, I found Thomas Thurtell there,
reading the newspaper. Re then sent me to my mo-
ther's, whose name had been given as one of their bail,
to ask if any inquiries had been made there. On see-
ing my mother, she was displeased at her name being
used, because she knew nothing of the Thurtells, and
said she would decline becoming bail. Just after I
came out of my mother's, I met John Thurtell, Miss
Ann Noyes, and Thomas Noyes, in the gig I had hired
at Charing-cross ; and John Thurtell left the gig he was
in, and joined me, and we rode together as far as Ox-
ford-street, when he got out to go to Tetsall's. I took
the chaise to the end of Conduit-street, where Tetsall's
man took it from me ; and Mr. Noyes having come up
with the hired chaise and horse, I received it from him,
and took it home. lat the same time ordered another
horse and chaise to be ready for me the same afternoon,
at three o'clock, and then returned to Tetsall's.

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The two Thurtells, Noyes, Ennison, and myself,dined
at Tetsall's; and at three o'clock Thomas said to his
brother, "John, you h. 41.1 better go down and tell Pro-
bert 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 again, and we will ride down."
And he directed me to drive to Tyburn-gate, and there
wait for him.

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It was nearly six o'clock before J. Thurtell joined
me; he was dressed in a great coat, and trowsers over
his breeches, which I 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 discovery, and begged that the body might be re-
moved as early as possible that night from his pre.
mises ; and he stated his determination, in consequence
of the repot is in the neighbourhood, to leave the cottage
entirely,•with his family, on the following Thursday.
Probert suggested the propriety of cutting all the
clothes off :he deceased, so as to prevent his being iden-
tified ; and he undertook to tend or cut them into small
shreclq, and distribute them in such a manner as that
they Could never be put together again or be known.
Between twelve and one o'clock, Probert and John
Thurtell left me with the females, while they, under
pretence of getting the horse 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 Thortell was waiting for me. I then
took leave•of Probert and his family, and on joining
John Thurtell, perceived the dead body, inclosed 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
discovered. 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 forenoon I
,joined the Thurtells at Tet-
sail's ; and about three o clock Probert's chaise was
brought there, and Thomas Thurtell desired me to go
down to Prebert to arrange about bringing up his
children the next morning. I accordingly went, but
happening to stop at Field's in my way down,-I heard
some people talking about a woman having been found
drosimed in a pond; and suspecting it might be Weare's
body 'that • had been discovered, I became greatly
alarmed; and instead of going on to Gill's Hill Cottage,
I returned directly to town to the Thurtells, and told
theni what I bad heard, and my fears that something
was wrong ; on which John was as much frightened as
myself, and he said to his brother, " You had better go
down, Tom, and inquire the particalars, sand you scan
do it with safety, because no ono knows you." !Thomas
Thurtell accordingly went down almost directly, with
the same horse and gig, and that was the way he hap-
pened to be at Probert's when the officers wentthere that
night and apprehended him.
All the things belonging to Mr.Weare had been taken
to my lodgings, until John Thurtell should have an op-
portenity of taking them to some•tnan in the City, whom
he said he knew would buy them; but as there was
•now some danger-of' suspicion falling on us, and a pro-
bability of a search being made at our lodgings, it was
determined to get rid tat anything that was likely to be
identifed;.and also to retriove, the marks of• blood from.
the eat coat which had been worn by John Thurtell,
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mine, that was in pledge at a pa wnb;,_
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wishing the sleeves of the coat, '
blood, Isis could not succeed, and
termined to cut the sleeves off, and
rately away, and secrete or otherwit
of the coat. The sleeves were left
of, and I threw them down the priv
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And sent my wife reit on an errand, to redeem a coair'i
Rine, that was in pledge at a pawnbroker's,
lake, while we did what was necessary. We tried, I, v
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washing the sleeves of the coat, to remove the stains rt .
3100 d, but could not succeed, and it was therefore dt. -• i
'ermined to cut the sleeves off, and throw them ‘epo.
-ately away, and secrete or otherwise disphseof the both '
sf the coat. The sleeves were left with Me to get :id
rf, and I threw them down the privy of the house where tsi
[ lodged. and the other part without the sleeves was .
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hopped in Mary-la-bonne. Thurtell ,cut Mr. Weare's ra.
tat in small pieces, and threw the pieces in a street near ...
Vladdox-street. He also threw a white handled razor
end strop on the pavement in a street facing Maddox- 1
street and Bond-street, which was directly after picked
ip by a man accidentally passing by. Mr. %Veare'l AO
ortoiseshell comb and hair ',flush be dropped in till
piddle of the same street, and a housewife filled v ••,11 lor
bread and needles belonging to the deceased was thfc..•,n N
rehind the railings of a house in Maddox-street. Ma
The next morning I was apprehended, and 3 :hi sal
I'hurtell also, when, after undergoing a short examin.i.
ion at Bow-street, we were conveyed to Watford ; ariit
here, in consequence of the solicitations and p: umi•ii.•
nade to me, I disclosed where the body was concealee, .
ind confessed many of the leading particulars of the St
torrid transaction. I also told the officers what article P.m
hey would find belonging to Mr.Weare,sat my lodging..
The reason for marking out Mr. Graham, who is, ai fee
' understand, related to Mr. Clutterbutk, was to get rid 11
if a prosecution he was carrying on against some par- -se
ies who had. won a large sum of money front him; an t its
Areare and others were supposed to be urging on the -sa
trosecution, because the party who won the money Pi
efused to let him share with them. JOSEPH HUNT.
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MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, FEB. 21. sh
George Prizeman, a Barrister's clerk, and &eked hi
7aker, his sister in-law, were placed at the bar, on in. di
lictments preferred against them by the parishes of St. .
files and St. George, Bloomsbury, which charged them
with almost unheard•of ct uelty to an infant child, on
tithe male prisoner.—The father was charged with
)eing an eye-witness of the cruelty to his own elild : the
ether prisoner was charged with inflicting that cruelty. •••-•
Eliza Scott—l ant servant to Mr. Eaton, of Totten-
ism-court-toad. Prizeman occupied part of the house.
The female prisoner had the care of the children. The r
child's person was not taken care of. She said she would
be the death of it before she left. The miscreant had b
cut, bruised, and deformed the child, until it was quite 11
a piteous object. The witness informed the parish, (I
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officers, who took the child.
Mr. J. Cutter took the child on the 29th of January. a
It was then black from head to foot. rr
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Mr. Burgess, a surgeon, deposed that the child was a
miserable object. It had not been properly fed or r
cleaned. It was in a state of starvation, with many bruises b
about the body, and a wound on the right eye-lid.
Mr. Eaton exarnined.—He spoke to the prisoner: (
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asked him if it Was his child? Prisoner answered
] Yes." He did not see it after, for the fact was he did
not like it. - b
The Jury acquitted the father upon the Chairman !
passing a censure upon him ; and found the female ti
Guilty, who was adjudged to fourteen days hard labour •
at the tread-milt. . _
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UNIVERSITYand CLERICAL. INTELLIGENCE,
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CAMBRIDGE, FEBRUARY 28. 1
At a Congregation on Wednesday, the following Geotienten were b
admitted to Degrees : 'v
.61astra. or A ars.—Rev. John Hothersall Pinder, Caius College. h
BACHELOR Li Crum. Law.—Rev. Charles Thomas Glad efts, v
Jesus College.
BACHELOR or A ers—Gervas Harvey Woodhouse, Si. John's Cot. •
OXFORD. FEBRUARY 21.
Tuesday se'nnight John Edward Willis, M.A. Fellow of Mae- s
dalen College, and of Richmond-place, Cliftoii, was called to the
Bar by the Hon. Society or Lincoln's Inn. t
Thursday last the fhilowing Degrees wete conferred: • M
MASTERS or Axes.,—Rev. Robert Lowrance, St. Salloala4 Hall;. a
Edward Hay, Student of Christ Church. •
.4. •
BAIPHELORS OF Aria—John Henniker, E . c=iistiat. 1
lege, grand compounder; Anthony 'Vidor I
Church; James 'William Mylne, Beiliol (uer.- •-' a- r • - '-e• al
• ECCLESIASTICAL PROMOTIONS, ....; •
The Rev. William Hughes, 'A.M. '')Rectosof Bradenhant.osi .
Pitchcott. in the county of Buckingham, is appiiinted Chaplain'to
Fienne;s' Wykiliam Martin; Esq. of Leeds Curie, 'High Shenif for 1
the County Or Rent; and-luitexpetted 'etrptebels the lifeise •Ser- i
mon before the 'fidget namealo Me' Majeeate Comminden. ]
The Rev. Mr.. Moldy has boVreossted to the Vicarages of II
Westwell, Gothnershatn, and Cita k, vacant by the death of the
Rev. J. G. Sharer. 1
Rev. J. tidier, to the Vicaragrof Bathford, with liatkitapton I
annexed. '
The Bishop of Elf has presented the Rev. J. Bruklebank, '
B.D. Chaplain to his Lordship, and Rector of Teverslaam, to the 1
Rectory of Willingham, vacant by" the death of the 'Rev: lir Henry . ~
Bate Dudley, Bart.
Rey. William Arundel! Boaverie, M.A. Follow of Merlon
College, has been licensed to the augmented Curacy of HOlywell, •
in Oxford, to which he was nominated by the Warden and Fel- i
lows of Merton College. 1
The Bishop of Cloyne has presented the Rev. John M. Brooke; :
M.A. Chaplain to the Duke of York; tb the Inedrif of lKillnalten,
in his Lordship's diocese.
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IIeARRIEIk.' ---.-. ' -.-- -' - e
Thursday se'nnight, the Re*. Charles Mein Diglitoo, to Maria,
fourth daughter of the Rev.. Archdeactin Probfu, of Me.libpor
Mau, Longhope, Gloucestershire.
At Clifton the Rev: W. H. Grey, to Ann Jane, daughter of Mr.
Watts, of
.Barnstaple. •
February 9, Lieutenant William Dunne, of the 2Stk, or Bang's
Own Borderers, to Entity the only daughter of the late..l2l6h!Wile
lock, Esq. and of /Milne./ Park, in the annty of Dahl&
Tuesdaf ie'nnight, W. H. Quayle, Esq. of the MindbeiNdipieihe '
,
Miss Jones, of Pakenham, Suffolk. - .
December 4, at Barbadoes, Lieut. C. F. Lardy, of the '400112
King's awn Regiment, to Thomasine, relict of J. Pinder, Ralyeind
&tighter of General Haynes, of the same place.
'At Bombay, on the 17th of July last, Captain J. Taylor, of eke
Bengal Commissariat, to Sarah Falconer, eldest daughter of Wit- .
tiam Graham, Rector of the Grammar School, Haddington.
Mr. M. Geoghegan,' of Galway, to Miss Sutherland, daughter
of Adjutant Sutherland, of the Galway Militia.
. DIED.
Feb. 13, at Sendwick, Kirkcudbright, Lady Gordon, of Bubo..
August 22, at Bombay,John Hector Jones, Esq, in his 8d year.
At Haverfordwest, the Rev. T. 11. Jones.
At Leith, the Rev. R. Dickson, D.D.
At Bockkton, Worcestershire, aged 88, the Rev. Peter Miller,
incumbent of the above parish, and of Leysters, Herefordshire, and
one of the oldest Magistrates on the Bench, in both counties.
At Tunatead, the Rev. S. Woodrow, curate of that parish. 4,,
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