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