Portraits, memoirs, and characters, of remarkable persons, from the revolution in 1688 to the end of the reign of George II Collected from the most authentic accounts extant . [V] %% &< 14 9 (Executed Novf 174O . GEORGE ii.] REMARKABLE PERSONS. 217 WHlli&m WILLIAM DEWELL, a young man of low con-nections, and vicious propensities, in companywith several others, of equal depravity with himself,committed a rape on a poor woman, in a barn atActon, and afterwards treated her in so cruel amanner as to occasion her death. Dewell, beingparticularly identified as the principal in this affair,was bro
Portraits, memoirs, and characters, of remarkable persons, from the revolution in 1688 to the end of the reign of George II Collected from the most authentic accounts extant . [V] %% &< 14 9 (Executed Novf 174O . GEORGE ii.] REMARKABLE PERSONS. 217 WHlli&m WILLIAM DEWELL, a young man of low con-nections, and vicious propensities, in companywith several others, of equal depravity with himself,committed a rape on a poor woman, in a barn atActon, and afterwards treated her in so cruel amanner as to occasion her death. Dewell, beingparticularly identified as the principal in this affair,was brought to trial, found guilty, and ordered forexecution at Tyburn, on November 24-, hanging the customary time, he was cut down,and conveyed to SurgeonVhall, in order to be dis-sected. Being stripped and laid on a board, oneof the attendants proceeded to wash the body, inorder to its preparation for the surgeons to operateon, but, during the process, symptoms of returninglife appearing, arid the breath coming quicker andquicker, a surgeon was immediately procured, whobled, and took several ounces of blood from him ; andin about two hours time, he was s
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