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Gili’s-hill Cottage and his associates, late, on Tuesday night Mr. Probert and a man named Thomas Thurtell, were taken into custody and lodged in St.Alban’s Castle for farther examination. On Wednesday morning early, a Mr John Thurtell, (the brother of Thomas), and a Mr Joseph Hunt, were taken up the former at the Coach and Horses, ,Conduit-street; Bondstreet, and the latter at his own lodgings, No. 19, King-street, Golden-square, under a warrant from the Magistrates at Watford. In the room occupied by John Thurtell, a large and a small pistol were found, and some clothes which were much marked, and in some places almost soaked in blood. After a short examination at Bow-street, they were conveyed to Watford, and there-examined. The examination of the persons apprehended, of the witnesses’ above-mentioned, and of Mr Probert’s servants, was continued through the night, and did not terminate till nine o’clock oh Thursday morning. Before that time, Joseph Hunt, one of the persons who had been apprehended, had been induced to disclose the particulars of the suspected transaction; when it turned out, according to his confession, that John Thurtell, one of the prisoners had, on
