He usually reached home at about three o'clock, but on this afternoon lie did not return. The boy had before 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. Cutbath, the relieving officer of the Parish, gave him the usual amount of 9s. The boy arrived safely at Aylesford, when Mr. He was dressed at the time in a " south-wester," 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, March the 4th, the little fellow, who was described as having possessed peculiar intelligence and an amiable disposition, was dispatched to Aylesford to receive a sum of 9S., the amount of a weekly parish allowance to his father. From the evidence it appeared that Taylor was the son of a poor man of the same name, a tallowchandler, living at Stroud. Few cases had ever produced a greater degree of interest in the county of Kent than that of this wretched culprit, and his still more unfortunate victim. Taylor, a boy aged only thirteen years, in a wood in the parish of Chatham. He was indicted at the Maidstone assizes on Friday, the 29th of July, 1831, for the willful murder of Richard F. Our readers will be astonished when they learn that this wretched malefactor, at the time of his execution, had attained the age of fourteen years only but the circumstances of the bloody tragedy in which he was the chief actor show him to have been fully deserving the fate which befell him. Here is the story I found about this malefactor, the crime and his victim and also some background information how he was executed as well as what might happen to his body afterwards. He was the youngest to struggle on the gallows in 19th and 20th century. More like a coincidence I found the information that a boy of fourteen was executed in 1831 in England.
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