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GRAVE ROBBERS, ST LEONARD’S CHURCH, STREATHAM

GRAVE ROBBERS, ST LEONARD’S CHURCH, STREATHAM

A newspaper cutting recording the charging of J Watts, C Butler and W Lane by the Streatham constable on suspicion of intending to steal dead bodies from the church yard. Butler had enquired of the Sexton the previous day about the burial of a woman whose grave was fresh. The three men were sent to trial. Dated 1814
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Collection:Cuttings Files
Image type:Print
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Ref:14147
Identifier:Cuttings 12/820
Date:1814

#-Before 1850  #LAW AND ORDER  #Print  #STREATHAM CENTRAL