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/6

 the Friday evening in question, murdered a person of the name of Weare, at the spot in Gill's-Hill-Lane where the two men had been seen seeking in the hedge; that the body of the murdered man was, first of all, on that evening, disposed of in a pond in the grounds belonging to the house occupied by Probert, and lay there till Monday, when it was removed to a pond two miles distant, and there thrown in and left. Mr Hunt concluded his confession by offering to conduct the Magistrates to the spot where the body was deposited.

In consequence of this offer, Hunt, accompanied by Mr Noel, the Solicitor for the prosecution, and a sufficient number of officers, proceeded in post chaises to the spot alluded to; and on arriving near a pond which is on the side of a lane leading from Battledore Green to Radlet, in the parish of Aldenham, about two miles from the place where the murder was committed, Hunt said the body would he found in that pond. After two attempts with a drag, the body of a man, the upper part of which was enveloped in a new sack, the feet crossed and tied with a cord, having a red shawl handkerchief round the neck, was brought