In the night the three men placed the body in a sack and carried it to a pond near Probert's house and threw it in.

The next night they fished it out and threw it into another pond some distance away.
Thurtell meanwhile had divided the spoil--some L20, which he said was all that he had obtained from Weare's body--with his companions.

Hunt, it may be mentioned, afterwards declared his conviction that Thurtell, when he first committed the murder, had removed his victim's principal treasure, notes to the value of three or four hundred pounds.

Suspicion was aroused, and the hue and cry raised through the finding by a labourer of the pistol in the hedge, and the discovery of a pool of blood on the roadway.

Probert promptly turned informer; Hunt also tried to save himself by a rambling confession, and it was he who revealed where the body was concealed, accompanying the officers to the pond and pointing out the exact spot where the corpse would be found.