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
Date:
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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    r. ] venge for the Affront, did you not cut the Rope near through, in order to let him fail when he was to he let down into the Pit \ and the poor Man accordingly fell, to the great Hazard of his Life?—Upon this laft Queftion being put, Mr. Horne faid, (fhaking the Querift by the Hand at the lame Time) My good Friend, I have always found you fin cere and honeft to me *, and do ajfureyou, as lam Jhcrtly to appear before the juft, awful, and decifive Tribunal9 and as I hope for Mercy there, that all and every one of the above Reflexions are abfolutely falfe, ground- lefs, and malicious *, and that it muft be them alone who propagated fuch Falfhocds, that muft be an- fwenable for fuch their wicked Devices, for God does know that I am not gutly of the Commiffion of any one of them. The next Time the Qiierift was admitted to fee him, after fome Hours Converfation on the me¬ lancholy Affair, Mr. Horne,with Tears in his Eyes, and feemingly much agitated, faid, My Friend, ■ my Brother Charles was tried at Derby about twenty Tears ago, and acquitted, my dear Sifter Nanny for- - fwearing herfelf at that Lime to fave his Life. His .Life, you fee, was preferred to hang me but you 'll fee him-- He gave the following Account of the Murder of the CHILD. He appealed to GOD, “ That he had no Inten¬ tion that the Child fhould die : That, to preferve its Life, he put it into a Bag lined with Wool, and made a Hole in the Bag to give it Air : That the Child was well dreffed, and was defigned as a Prefent for the late Mr. Chaworth, of Annefley, and intended it to be laid at his Door; but, on taking it from his Brother, and approaching the ** aLALs^ Houfe, tj /73S/ a f-fiuzdrjf , fin. //it_