The Thurtell-Hunt Murder Case

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In October 1823 labourers found a knife and a bloodstained pistol in a dark and dismal country byway; a week later the corpse of William Weare was recovered from a nearby pond—
Weare's murder, and the subsequent trial of three men (John Thurtell, Joe Hunt and William Probert) for it, roused enormous public interest. The accused men came from the shady fringes of London's underworld, bad been involved in prizefighting and gambUng hells, and all England wanted to know more. Headlines featured the ghost-faced horse pulling the murdered man's... Tovább

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In October 1823 labourers found a knife and a bloodstained pistol in a dark and dismal country byway; a week later the corpse of William Weare was recovered from a nearby pond—
Weare's murder, and the subsequent trial of three men (John Thurtell, Joe Hunt and William Probert) for it, roused enormous public interest. The accused men came from the shady fringes of London's underworld, bad been involved in prizefighting and gambUng hells, and all England wanted to know more. Headlines featured the ghost-faced horse pulling the murdered man's gig, the suspicious wife spying on the division of the criminals' spoils, Weare's two watery burials and bis uncanny nocturnal disinterment. An avid readership was held in thrall by gruesome details reported in the burgeoning mass market newspapers.
This case, one of the first in which fair trial and free press collided, had an impact on British legal history, and many later writers - from Charles Dickens to twentieth-century thriller writers - have drawn on it, fascinated by the crime's themes.
In The Thurtell-Hunt Murder Case, Albert Borowitz adds important details to our knowledge of a period often thought of as romantic and elegant, and at the same time provides a gripping account of a real crime that is as mesmerizing as a well-crafted work of mystery fiction. Vissza