Murder Victim. He is remembered as the victim of a murder that involved a very publicized trial with headlines in the newspapers. He began his professional life as a waiter, but soon left for a life of a gambler and card-sharp; card-sharp meaning a cheater at cards. Although some source describe him as a lawyer, this is not proven. The 19th century journalist Pierce Egan described Weare as, “No spider darted with more eagerness on a poor fly, that did Weare pounce upon the unwary.” One of his victims was John Thurtell, the son of the mayor of Norwich, who lost three hundred pounds to Weare in a rigged game called “blind hookey”. Weare was then invited by Thurtell to join him in the country at the home of another gambler, William Porbert, for a few days of gambling and field sports. With Weare agreeing, the two rode from London in a carriage, while Probert and another accomplice Joseph Hunt, a well-known singer, in another carriage. As they approached Prober's home near the village of Elstree, just 13-miles north of London, Thurtell tried to shoot Weare, but his pistol misfired causing Weare to make an attempt to escape running for his life. Thurtell ran after him, ramming the pistol into Weare's skull with such force that blood, hair, and tissue were left on the barrel of the pistol. At this point, Thurtell sliced Wear's throat with a sheath knife. Wear's body was then thrown into a shallow fish pond in the garden at Probert's cottage. The fish pond was not deep enough and, during the night, they moved the body to another pond in the Village of Elstree. However, Thurtell had left the knife and pistol by the roadside, where they were later found by laborers. As Probet's cottage was nearby, he was the first to be interrogated by law enforcement; he turned King's Evidence and was granted immunity in exchange for testifying against his partners in crime. After the trial, Thurtell was hanged on January 9th at Hertford Gaol; his skull was placed on display at the Hunterian Collection at the Royal College of Surgeons in London in the same cabinet as the skull of William Corder, murderer of Maria Marten and the skeleton of Jonathan Wild. Hunt was sentenced to death as an accessory to murder, but this was commuted to transportation to Australia where, after he had served his sentence, he became a constable in Bathhurst, New South Wales, and died in 1861 from renal failure. Probert was granted immunity for this crime, yet a year after the murder, he was arrested for being a horse thief and sentenced to death by hanging for this crime on June 20, 1825 at Newgate. He is buried in the churchyard at St. Martin's presumably “In the Field” near Trafalgar Square. As for Weare, he was interred in an unmarked grave in Elstree Parish Church. Author Albert Borowitz's 1987 book “The Thurtell-Hunt Murder Case” documents the details of this crime. While doing research for the book in 1981, he was told “Even at the time, there seems to have been doubt about where in the churchyard the burial took place.” In 1991, another source stated that Weare's grave was ten paces east along the path near the grave of Martha Ray and then three paces to the south.