The Winnats Pickaxe Murder pt:2

Before long the 5 men could hear the sound of horses coming up the pass.
For Clara this setting was too similar to her dreams and she started to panic, re-assured by Allan they rode on until they were ambushed by the miners and taken to a abandoned barn. Allan handed over all the money they had saved, which amounted to £200. The miners looked on pitilessly as the couple begged for their lives. Then Allan, consumed with rage confronted the miners and started to beat them with his fists, seconds later the miners had slaughtered him with their pickaxes. Clara let out an uncontrollable scream, the last sound she would ever make as she too was murdered by the savage miners. After much debate the heartless miners buried the bodies and split the money, releasing the horses onto the moore. 
The miners may have been free of legal justice, but not free of from natural justice. John Bradshaw, was walking near the scene of the kidnap in the pass when a rock fell and crushed hid skull. Thomas Hall, became depressed and hung himself. Nicholas Cook fell from a high path near the pass and was killed. Francis Butler died a miserable death after 4 failed attempts to take his own life. James Ashton though out living the other cursed miners, found every business venture failed, and it is said every horse he bought died, on his death bed he confessed to his horrendous crimes. 
In the 1760’s miners were digging a new shaft in the pass when they discovered 2 skeletons, the remains of the young couple, that would spend the rest of eternity in the Derbyshire hills on Winnats pass.