%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; %ISOnum; %ISOpub; ]> Human Monsters!! / Account of a Human Monster, at Woodside, near Old / Windsor, who makes a common Praictce of EATING LIVE CATS, &c. He was / Yesterday apprehended and committed to Goal for the MURDER of an INFANT / CHILD. Also an account of a similar Monster at Reepham, Norfolk. / TO WHICH IS ADDED, / The Account of a RAPE committed by Mr. J, of / Broad-street St. Giles's. And an account of another Rape committed by a BOY of only / Sixteen Years of Age, who is committed to Strafford Goal for Trial. University of California - Santa Barbara The Early Modern Center Director Patricia Fumerton 1750-1750 Early Modern Center, University of California Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 06/01/2012 32442

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N68210 IT must equally be a matter of real / surprise and astonishment, that such Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 289716 Human Monsters!! / Account of a Human Monster, at Woodside, near Old / Windsor, who makes a common Praictce of EATING LIVE CATS, &c. He was / Yesterday apprehended and committed to Goal for the MURDER of an INFANT / CHILD. Also an account of a similar Monster at Reepham, Norfolk. / TO WHICH IS ADDED, / The Account of a RAPE committed by Mr. J, of / Broad-street St. Giles's. And an account of another Rape committed by a BOY of only / Sixteen Years of Age, who is committed to Strafford Goal for Trial. Human Monsters!! Account of a Human Monster, at Woodside, near Old Windsor, who makes a common Praictce of EATING LIVE CATS, &c. He was Yesterday apprehended and committed to Goal for the MURDER of an INFANT CHILD. Also an account of a similar Monster at Reepham, Norfolk. TO WHICH IS ADDED, The Account of a RAPE committed by Mr. J, of Broad-street St. Giles's. And an account of another Rape committed by a BOY of only Sixteen Years of Age, who is committed to Strafford Goal for Trial. Human Monsters!! Account of a Human Monster, at Woodside, near Old Windsor, who makes a common Practice of EATING LIVE CATS, etc. He was Yesterday apprehended and committed to Jail for the MURDER of an INFANT CHILD. Also an account of a similar Monster at Reepham, Norfolk. TO WHICH IS ADDED, The Account of a RAPE committed by Mr. J. of Broad-street St. Giles's. And an account of another Rape committed by a BOY of only Sixteen Years of Age, who is committed to Strafford Jail for Trial. 1750-1750

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IT must equally be a matter of real surprise and astonishment, that such depraved appetites as the following instances furnishes, can axist in this country; or indeed that such a monstrous cannibal could disgrace human nature. Many instances of brutality have of late astonished us, and almost exceeded the bounds of credibility; but the follow- ing instances leave all others far behind them in wickedness. A fellow who has long been resident at Woodside, near Old Windsor, who has been noted for the infamous feat of eating a cat alive, and who been in the censtant habit of the most brutal and beastly practices, has been apprehended and committed to goal, on a charge of murdering an infant six years old. That any man could be found who pos- sessed so much the appetite of a cannibal as to prefer the devouring of cats and other animals alive, to the ordinary food of mankind, is almost beyond belief: and we certainly should give it no manner of credit, was it not attested by an authority we could not dispute. But what renders this monster, if pos- sible, more completely and diabolically wicked, is, that he is charged with having added the worst of all sins, Murder, to the already black catalogue of crimes he has committed. Nay, some do not scru-
ple to assert that it was to satisfy his un- natural appetite he committed this most horrid deed. As a proof that the foregoing is not the only wretch of that description now living, we shall just mention the following instance of a similar depravity. --- A fellow at a pub- lic-house at Reepham, in Norfolk, for a trifling wager, actually devoured two live kittens and a whole candle. These mens enormously wicked deeds remind us of the Scottish traditional story of Sandy Bane, who, according to some who assert it on authority, used to devour with the most voracious appetite every thing while panting for life. He conceived the most delicious repast was a human heart taken warm from the body while the blood was issuing from it, and the pulsations of life remained. A man was apprehended in Broad street, St. Giles, charged with having committed a rape on the body of an infant under nine years of age; attended with some peculiar circumstances we shall at present forbear to mention. And a few days since, a boy of sixteen years of age, was committed to Stafford goal, on a similar charge, and with a girl of exactly the same age.