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 [ 5 ] to name the Partners of his Guilt; but as that cannot be, we muff blufh for him, when ’tis af- Terted, that not content with debauching his Mo¬ ther’s Servants, he added the abominable Crime of—-with his ******. A young Gentleman of Fortune paid his Addreffes to one of his Siders, but he foon difcovered the unnatural Commerce between the Parties *, lo that the Court- Chip was broke off almoft as foon as begun. Amongft the various Women Mr. Horne ufed to frequent, he had a more than ordinary Kind- nefs for-—-, by whom he had feveral Children. About the Year 1722, this Girl be¬ ing then big with Child by him, he was kind enough to remove her privately from Butterly to a convenient Place in Nottinghamshire, where fhe was well accommodated for lying-in: Whe¬ ther Hie did not like her Situation, or could not bear to be thus parted from her Lover, we do not pretend to fay ; however fhe was imprudent enough to return the next Day to Butterly, and as fhe was in her Wray to Mr. Horne's, the Parifli- Officers fecured her, that fhe, might fvvear the Child to the true Father. They left the Girl all Night under the Care of two or three People, (intending to go with her before a Juftice in the Morning) with a flridt Charge not to buffer Mr. Horne to come near her; but he found Means to bribe her Keepers, and was with her all Night *, the Confequence of which was, the next Morn¬ ing hie fwore the Child to Mr. Humphrey Ellis, of Bumbleftreet, London, though no fuch Perfon was then exuding. She was foon after delivered of a Female Child, which lived to the Age of fifteen or fixteen, and then died of a lingering Diftem- per, having for a long Time been convulfed, t