John Horwood

Papers in the Horwood Book suggest that John remained infatuated and continued to seek Eliza, turning to harassment and greater violence when he was spurned.Dr Smith noticed Eliza in a hospital waiting room on 31 January, and insisted that she was admitted for treatment of a depressed fracture.The prosecution included a phrenological report undertaken by Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck[15] to attempt to prove Horwood's guilt by the shape of his skull.[16] The strongest point in Horwood's defence was that the abscess on the brain might have been caused by the unclean dressings on the wound,[2] and not directly by the stone attack though it would appear that this evidence was never put forward.He was hanged two days later on temporary gallows erected above the New Gaol's gatehouse and his body was handed back to Smith for dissection in a public lecture[4] at Bristol Royal Infirmary.Horwood's friends attempted to rescue the body on its route to Bristol Royal Infirmary for 'anatomisation' (dissection) and spirit it away on the river back to Hanham.35893/36/v_i) (online catalogue) and is currently on display at M Shed museum in Bristol, alongside a contemporary dissection table, donated by Dr Richard Smith junior, which was used for surgical operations until 1890 when it was removed and re-used as a sideboard until 1999.[10] Horwood's skeleton was eventually buried alongside his father on 13 April 2011 at 1.30 pm at Christchurch, Hanham, exactly 190 years to the hour after he was hanged.