Friday 26 June 2015

The entrails they gave to their dogs

At Northampton assizes, three were capitally convicted for the murder of Thomas Carey. The deceased, who was a travelling Scotchman that sold stockings, calling some time ago at the house of one Seamark, near Gainsborough, in the way of his trade, was followed by the prisoners, then in the house, who forced him back, murdered him in the garden, and buried the body hard by; but being fearful of a discovery, in a few days they took up the body, cut it in pieces, and burnt it in an oven. The entrails they gave to their dogs. The discovery of this horrid fact was made by Seamark's wife, and corroborated by circumstances that amounted to a demonstration.

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