A genuine account of the life and trial of William Andrew Horne, of Butterly-Hall, in the County of Derby; who was convicted at Nottingham Assizes, August 10, 1759, for the murder of a child in the year 1724, and executed there on the 11th of December, 1759, to which is prefixed a particular detail of all the circumstances tending to the discovery of this long-concealed murder / [William Andrew Horne].

  • William Andrew Horne
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1760
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Credit: A genuine account of the life and trial of William Andrew Horne, of Butterly-Hall, in the County of Derby; who was convicted at Nottingham Assizes, August 10, 1759, for the murder of a child in the year 1724, and executed there on the 11th of December, 1759, to which is prefixed a particular detail of all the circumstances tending to the discovery of this long-concealed murder / [William Andrew Horne]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in ] his Lordffiip was pleafed to refpite the Sentence a Month-, at the Expiration of whkh he obtain'd another Refpite till further Orders. We with, we could fay he had made a proper Ufe of the Time granted him but, alas! it was too much fpent in fruitlefs Applications to Perfons in Power for Pardon. It was with Difficulty that he was perfuaded to think he had committed a Crime, in being the Occahon of the Death of an innocent Babe *, and thought it hard, extremely hard, to be convidfed of a Fact done fo many Years ago ; and its be¬ ing proved upon the fingle Evidence, he faid, of an own Brother, made it doubly hard. On Saturday the 8th of December, being afked. Sir, did not you hurt your Father, and abufe him fome way or other, fo as to haften his End? He not only anfwered in the Negative, but that he al¬ ways did behave in a dutiful and obedient Man¬ ner.—Being, at the fame Time, further interro¬ gated, Whether, dire Fly or in dire Fly, he had been guilty of murdering one of his Sifters ? Fie protefted his Innocence on that Account.-Being alfo afk’d, Did not you murder one of your Maid Ser¬ vants who was fuppofed to be pregnant, and bury her in your own Garden ? He alfo pofuively denied it.—Being further afk’d But, Sir, did not you beat a poor Man to fuch a terribleDegreeas to break his Arms, &c. fo that he died before he got out of your Grounds9 and all this only for ajking an Alms ? No, - -There was one Amos Killer, who was an Idiot, and belong'd to Ripley -, and l remember once, at Hedge-Court, we heard of him being found dead near Chatf- worth, or fomewhere that Way, at feveral Miles Diftance from Ripley.-Further, Mr. Horne, Had not you a Quarrel with a Steaver, and, in Re-