Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. parties. Good evening. This is crime classics. I am Thomas Highland. Listen.

The man in the

The man in non-descip

The man in nondescript uniform

dropping stones into that well is a mercenary soldier, more recently a deserted.

He's testing the depth of the well, the only way he knows since the length of rope is not immediately available and more

complicated machines are as yet on discovered. This is the year 1778 and the

deserter is named James Buchanan. Next to him is his friend another deserter is named James Buchanan.

Next to him is his friend, another deserter whose name is William Brooks.

These men are in the employ of Mrs. Bacheba Spooner of Brookfield, Massachusetts, whose well it is.

Mrs. Spooner will pay these men immediately they deposit

the body of her murderediba Spooner, the first woman to be tried for murder in the United States.

Crime Classics, a new series of true crime stories taken from the records and newspapers of every land from every time.

Your host each week, Mr Thomas Highland, Connoisseur of Crime, Student of Violence, and Ter of murders. Now once again Thomas Highland. The place is Brookfield, Massachusetts, the year 1778.

Seen?

The home of Joshua and Paschbus Funer, a large and respectable dwelling two stories

and height, situated on the north side of the road from Brookfield to Worcester. In the front of it, a nearly opposite on the south side of the road from Brookfield to Worcester. In the front of it a nearly opposite on the

south side of the road are stately elms and a well. And in the living room there's this.

What manner of women are you, Bathreiva?

There's no content in you and no happiness.

And what happiness have you given me?

A life that dies quickly, cooking and sewing, and from you drunken sleep. And you've not answered me you would like to see me

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