Page:Particular account of the murder of Mr Thos. Weare, the trial of John Thurtell and Joseph Hunt and the execution of J. Thurtell.pdf/3



N Friday, the 24th October 1823, about eight o'clock in the evening, as a Mr P. Smith was proceeding, walking behind a donkey chaise, wherein his wife was riding, from the house of a Mr Nicholls, at Batler’s Green, to his own residence in Kemp’s-row, Aldenham, in the county of Hertford, on approaching Gill's-Hill-Lane he heard the report of a gun or pistol, which was succeeded by groans seemingly from the same quarter. Mrs Smith being terrified at this, he was apprehensive of leaving her, and so made the best of their way home. The same evening, about the same hour, a man of the name of Freeman saw a gig with two gentlemen in it in Gill’s-Hill-Lane, an