![]() ![]() It was not until the 11th of May that the real facts of the murder of the unhappy boy were discovered. The fact of his having received the money was ascertained but all search for him proved unavailing, and his parents were left in a most painful state of doubt as to the cause of his sudden disappearance. As night advanced his father became alarmed at his absence and the next morning he determined to go himself to Aylesford, for the purpose of making inquiries for him. He usually reached home at about three o'clock, but this afternoon he did not return. The boy had previously been instructed by his father as to the mode of carrying the money, and the little fellow had shown him how completely and how securely he could conceal it, by putting it into a little bag, which he could carry in the palm of his hand inside a mitten which he wore and on this occasion he was observed to place the silver in the customary manner in his hand. The boy arrived safely at Aylesford, when Mr Cutbath, the relieving officer of the parish, gave him the usual amount of nine shillings. He was dressed at the time in a "southwester," with a belcher handkerchief round his neck, blue jacket and waistcoat, brown trousers, and shoes and stockings and his father, at his request, lent him a knife, with which he expressed his intention to cut a bow and arrow on his way home. On Friday, the 4th of March, the little fellow, who was described as having been possessed of peculiar intelligence and an amiable disposition, was dispatched to Aylesford to receive a sum of nine shillings, the amount of a weekly parish allowance to his father. Taylor, a boy aged only thirteen years, in a wood in the parish of Chatham.įrom the evidence it appeared that Taylor was the son of a poor man, a tallow-chandler, who lived at Stroud. He was indicted at the Maidstone Assizes on Friday, the 29th of July, 1831, for the wilful murder of Richard F. THIS malefactor, at the time of his execution, was only fourteen years of age. A Fourteen-year-old Criminal, who murdered another Boy for the sake of Nine Shillings, and was executed on 1st August, 1831 ![]()
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