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throwing it into the pond close to Probert's House. It was first of all stripped, but where this opperation was earned into effect is not ascertained. On Monday night John Thurtell and Hunt went down to Probert's again, and with his assistance the body was taken out of the pond, put into a gig, carried a way a distance of nearly two miles, and thrown into the place where it was found.
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TRIAL AND SENTENCE
OF
THURTELL AND HUNT
ON Tuesday the 6th January 1824 the prisoners, John Thurtell and Joseph Hunt were brought up-for trial at the Hertford Adjourned Assizes, at an early hour in the morning. The evening was far advanced, when the exculpatory evidence were yet to be examined, and the defence for the prisoners
