Although the body was so much decomposed as to prevent his being able to discover by what means death had been produced, the remains of blood upon the shirt, coat and neckerchief left no doubt of the dreadful death which the boy had suffered. The mitten was cut from his left hand, and his clothes were disarranged, as if there had been a scuffle. On that day a man named Izzard was passing through a bypath in a wood situated at a distance of about two miles from Rochester, and about thirty rods from the highroad, when he found the body of the boy lying in a ditch. 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. Folk smile to hear an old man say that someday he will go Around the world that is so full of wonders.A Fourteen-year-old Criminal, who murdered another Boy for the sake of Nine Shillings, and was executed on 1st August, 1831 So year by year watched the ships a-sailing to and fro, The ships that come as strangers and the ships I've learned to know. I've heard, I've read, I've dreamed - But all the time I've longed to see - Around the world that is so full of wonders. The things I've heard, the things I've read, the things I've dreamed might be, The boyish tales, the old men's yarns, they will not pass from me. The shabby tramp that like a wedge is hammered through the seas, The little brown-sailed brigantine that traps the slightest breeze - Oh, I'd be well content to fare aboard the least of these Around the world that is so full of wonders. I'd find a thousand richer feasts than his - if she were mine - Around the world that is so full of wonders. My lord he owns a grand white yacht, most beautiful and fine, But seldom does she leave the firth lest he should fail to dine. The cruiser and the battleship that loom as dark as doubt, The devilish destroyer and the hateful hideous scout - These deadly things may also rush, with roar and snarl and shout, Around the world that is so full of wonders. ![]() The swift and stately liners, how they run without a rest! The great three-masters, they have touched the East and told the West! The monster burden-bearers - oh, they all have plunged and pressed Around the world that is so full of wonders. For many years I've watched the ships a-sailing to and fro, The mighty ships, the little ships, the speedy and the slow: And many a time I've told myself that someday I would go Around the world that is so full of wonders.
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