Thrust his head into the fire

A most horrid murder was committed at Haptonstall near Halifax, where a poor fellow having threatened to give information against the murderers of Mr. Dyghton, formerly mentioned, a gang of coiners, as is supposed, set upon him, thrust his head into the fire, clapt a pair of red-hot tongs round his neck, and filled his breeches full of burning coals, by which cruel treatment the poor unhappy man died in the greatest agonies, and the villains made their escape.