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Human Monsters!!
Account of a Human Monster, at Woodside, near Old
Windsor, who makes a common Praictce of EATING LIVE CATS, etc. 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. And an account of another Rape committed by a BOY of only
Sixteen Years of Age, who is committed to Stafford Goal for Trial.

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.

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