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Extracts from April 26th 1849

ATTEMPT to EXHUME A CORPSE

On Wednesday se'nnight the son of Mr. R. Brown, of Reedham, who had been long afflicted, and was lately deceased, was interred in the churchyard of that village. From some cause unexplained the servants were ordered to watch the grave, an office which they took by turns. On the Friday following the interment it was the groom's turn to keep watch, and about two or three hours after midnight he observed two or three men in the churchyard, busily employed in throwing out the mould from the newly made grave. They had got to the depth of about two spades, when he presented himself, and told them that if they did not immediately desist he would shoot them. One of the men instantly turned round and shot at the groom, whom, however, he fortunately missed. The groom, who was armed with a double-barrelled gun, immediately levelled it, and discharged one of the barrels at the aggressor, who it is believed received the charge in his breast. He shrieked out violently. The groom then ran for assistance, but by the time he returned the parties had decamped. The blood from the wound was traced to some considerable distance, but no clue has yet been obtained likely to lead to the identification and detection of the parties implicated in the transaction. - Globe.

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