<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>The whole particulars of a most barbarous, cruel, and horrid murder, committed upon the body of W. Weare, Esq. --- : together with the dreadful confessions of Hunt and Probart [sic].</dc:title><dc:date>[1823]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>Caption title.</dc:description><dc:description>First line: On Friday night 24th ult. a murder was committed at a place about 6 miles from the town of Watford, Herts. ...</dc:description><dc:description>Printed in four columns. With two large woodcuts beneath the title illustrating the murder and the discovery of the body. A third, smaller woodcut depicting the burial of the victim appears in the lower right, above a poem with the heading "A copy of verses": A horrid deed I will relate, but newly brought to light, a deed so foul and barbarous, you've seldom heard the like ...</dc:description><dc:description>The Radlett murder, also know as the Elstree murder.  The victim was William Weare was murdered by John Thurtell, who owed him a gambling debt, and his accomplices Joseph Hunt and William Probert.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>