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It Happened On This Day - 23 March


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March 23

March 23 I847.

RAZOR GRINDERS UNION Trial

Mr. Baron Rolfe passed sentence on the 4 prisoners, he said two men were convicted at the last summer assizes of a very serious offence, an offence which it appears from the evidence they had been previously guilty of perpetrating and which they repeated so as to be again convicted at the last assizes. The present indictment charges you that being persons in somewhat higher situations in life than those so convicted, you were the parties at whose instigation and incitement and hope of reward held out they perpetrated that offence. Now it is impossible not to see that whatever be their crime, the crime of those who incited them to it, and who ought to have known better, and held out a reward is much worse. The law always subjects such parties to at least the same amount of punishment and common sense suggest that they should be punished more severely and sentence you all to be transported beyond the seas to such places as her majesty by the advice of her privy counsel may think fit for the term of ten years.

(The following extract taken from the Sheffield Mercury)

Immediately after sentence of transportation was passed upon Drury and his fellow convicts they were handcuffed to each other, led out of court having previously shaken hands with some of their friends and conducted to the Castle. They were followed by a large number of persons among whom were three wives of the prisoners, and on arriving at the Castle the prisoners entered and the doors were closed upon them. The poor women then gave vent to their poignant grief in most heart rending cries, wringing their hands in a truly piteous manner and several men were to be seen weeping like children. The distressed women reeled about scarcely able to walk and had to be supported on their way from the Castle in the arms of their male friends and relations. One of the women seemed to be utterly heartcrushed & at times rent the air with her bitter cries and lamentations.

The Crown has commuted their sentence to 7 years.

They were liberated under writ of error July 13th 1849.

March 23 1861

First burial in Burngreave cemetary - Oscar Brookes

March 23 1899

Sheffield United drew 4-4 with Liverpool in an FA Cup Semi Final at Blunden Park.

March 23 1907

Wednesday beat Woolwich Arsenal 3-1 in an FA Cup semi final at St Andews Birmingham.

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