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Body Snatching Riots - 1862


dunsbyowl1867

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Notts Guardian 16 June 1862

A fine find and an interesting, and disturbing read.

They didn't ask for much, just a place to let the departed rest - which is surely the whole point.

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There is a fuller account of the events that summer at

http://www.chrishobbs.com/sheffield/agraveaffair1862.htm

It appears that ""the sexton (Isaac Howard) had been in the habit of disinterring bodies and disposing of them for dissection"

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