Thurtell Murdering Mr. Weare.
In connection with the murder of Mr. Weare by Thurtell and Co., Sir Walter Scott, collected the printed trials with great assiduity, and took care always to have to hand the contemporary ballads and prints bound up with them. He admired particularly this verse of Theodore Hook’s[13] broadside:—
| “They cut his throat from ear to ear, His brains they battered in; His name was Mr. William Weare, He dwelt in Lyon’s Inn.” |
THE CONFESSION AND EXECUTION OF
JOHN THURTELL
On Friday, the 9th of January, 1824.
THE EXECUTION.
Hertford, half-past twelve o’clock.