[list-cumbria] list-cumbria Digest, Vol 4, Issue 18

[Anne Sharples]

Hi Petra, what a horrific story! This was 1823, I thought this was at an earlier date.
So the knife crime of today is just a repeat of the going’s on of 1823. Some folk are unbelievably.
Thanks for finding these reports, provided interesting readings, especially as it is the times of my Gtx2 grandparents.
Have a nice Easter
Anne
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>   1. Carlisle Patriot, 13 Dec 1823 - Local News (2) (Petra Mitchinson)
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> Subject: [list-cumbria] Carlisle Patriot, 13 Dec 1823 - Local News (2)
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> Saturday 13 Dec 1823   (p. 2, col. 6 and p. 3, col. 1-4 + 6)     [continued]
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> So anxious were the crowd to witness these exhumations, that they rushed over the church-yard walls (seriously dilapidating them),
> and trampled down the graves, to their great disfigurement. This had attained such a pitch on Wednesday, that a printed notice was
> issued 'by order of the Clergyman and Churchwardens,' that 'whoever was found climbing the church-yard wall of St. Mary's, or
> otherwise injuring the yard, would be prosecuted as the law directed;' and five shillings reward was offered by the wardens for
> every offender brought to justice.
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> About the same time another printed bill, addressed to the inhabitants, was posted about the town; it was signed 'Humanus,' and the
> object of it was evidently to increase the commotion. The violation of the sepulchres of the dead was attributed 'to the supineness
> of the magistracy, and the parsimony of the clergy;' and the people were called upon to assemble and adopt means of prevention, &c.
> The true character and tendency of this sinister address were fully exemplified in the fact that the printer shrunk from attaching
> his name to it.
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> Every person of common feeling will grant to 'Humanus' that these violations, and especially the manner in which they appear to have
> been conducted, are most repulsive to our nature, and ought, if possible, to be prevented. But it remains to be proved how they are
> imputable to the 'apathy of the Magistrates,' or the 'parsimony of the Clergy,' inasmuch as they were carried on under the shade of
> night, unknown to every one but the unfeeling authors of them and their confidants. When it can be shewn that the honourable persons
> accused have participated in the crime, then attack them; but let us not have every occurrence converted into means of local
> disunion: of that, we have quite enough already. 'Humanus,' however, will say, we presume, that the Magistrates and Clergy ought to
> have provided means of prevention: this he may assert, for a particular purpose; yet, whoever he be, he knows better than to attach
> any weight to such an argument.
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> Many persons have met men about late at night, in various parts of the neighbourhood, for some time past, who evinced a particular
> dislike to be approached; and they even pursued some individuals, in order, it is presumed, to keep the way clear for their
> companions.
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> The depredators have doubtless left the town ere this, as a matter of prudence;-were they met and recognized by the populace, their
> lives might be pronounced of little value.
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> It is unlucky for the Scots Greys that any of their number were seen with them, as a violent suspicion is thereby raised in the
> public mind that the plunderers derived assistance from individuals belonging to that gallant and exemplary corps.
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> Among the many ridiculous rumours to which these events have given rise, we may enumerate the following:-
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> It was asserted that the offenders were murderers as well as resurrection-men: that they met people in the highways, even the
> streets, clapped a strongly adhesive plaster upon their mouths to stifle their cries, whipt them into a bag, and sent them off for
> the dissecting knife!
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> A little girl had strayed from her parents at Upperby, gone to Cummersdale, and could not be found for eight-and-forty hours-she had
> been carried off by the resurrection-men!
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> William GRAHAM, the coachman, cannot at present be found-he, too, has been carried off by the resurrection-men!
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> In the beginning of the week, female servants could scarcely be prevailed on to go out only a few steps after dark. On Sunday
> evening, one young woman of this class, was coming up Castle-street, brim-full of fear, keeping a sharp look-out against the common
> enemy. When she came opposite Long-lane, as it is called, a gust of wind caused the corner of her shawl to flap in her
> face-imagination instantly converted it into the dreaded plaster, and she screamed most loudly for assistance!
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> Letters from Edinburgh, too, have been intercepted (addressed to the parties at Long Island, and opened by somebody or other),
> containing an order for a general assortment-'an old cock, an old hen, a double hen, and three or four young chickens!' On inquiry
> at the Post-office, we learn that no delivery of letters takes place at Long-island; and we scarcely need add that the story is
> altogether a fabrication. * Who can help admiring the brilliant thought of the old cock, old hen, and the double hen?
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> It was said that a young man in the employment of Mr. ALLISON, in passing near St. Mary's churchyard late on Saturday night, saw a
> party of the marauders coming over the wall-and that on accosting them, he was terribly cut in the hand by one savage, armed with a
> sharp long knife, larger than a carving knife!-On inquiry at the fountain-head, we learnt that the young man in question, while in
> company with others in Castle-street, on Saturday night, saw two men on the other side of the way. A shout was set up, 'There are
> the resurrection men! when one of the two ran off, and the tobacco-spinner had a slight scuffle with the other, in which his finger
> was cut; but with what he knows not, neither does he know that the persons so assailed were otherwise than honest, well-meaning men!
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> Further depredation is now out of the question, for the church-yards are carefully watched by the friends of persons recently
> interred.-Do we not begin to feel the want of a Police?
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> * It is true, however, that double letters were frequently received from Edinburgh by one of the persons (the tallest) now known as
> the Resurrection-men, under the name of LAMBERT; he regularly called for them at the Post-office.
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