Excerpt from The Criminal Recorder, or Biographical Sketches of Notorious Public Characters, Vol. 1 of 2: Including Murderers, Traitors, Pirates, Mutineers, Incendiaries, Defrauders, Rioters, Sharpers, Highwaymen, Footpads, Pickpockets, Swindlers, Housebreakers, Coiners, Receivers, Extortioners, and Other Noted Persons
On their arrival near the village, William dismounted, and inquired if the child was living, and being answered in the aflirmative, he took it, and told his brother to wait till he came back. On his return, Charles demanded to know how he had disposed of the infant; to which he said, that he had placed 'it behind a hay-stack, and covered it with hay.
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