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London, England, 1826-10-13 00:00:00

HORRIBLE AHAB? AT LIPERPOOL.

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LIVERPOOL, OCT. Ilk
Considerable constematio was this de y experienced in thistown,
in convntomce of its be g ascertained (hat a number of desor
bodies, tenort ran so hig its 60, had been discovered, reedy fo:
shipment to Glasgow, the season for lectures on anatomy bites p
just commenced, or being about to commence, in the capital of
Scotland. I hare endcatimund to ascertain the truth of the various
rtperts which are afloat upon the subject, and the following 'is n•n
result of my int:ttiriee. The statement may be implicitly relied on,
as my authority is undoubted.
Yesterday afternoon a carter took down to one of our quart
three cask., to be shipped on board tho Carron Company's vessel
the Latona,uldressed to " Mr. G. H. 'moguls, Edinburgh :" the
casks remained on the quay all night, and this morning, previous to
their bring put on board, a horrible stench was experienced hy the
mate of the Lstona anti Miter persons. whose duty it was to ship
' them ; this caused some suspicion that their contents did not
agree with the superscription, which was " bitter salts," and
' which the si,if ping note described they contained. The mate cow,.
mitnicated his suspicions to the agent of the Careen Colotely,
and that gentleman very promptly communicated the eircum.
.tance to the police. Socket, a constable, WAY sent to the qtriy, and
he caused the casks to be opened, alien eleven dead bodies were
found therein, salted and piq..led ! Of course the casks were de-
tained, end, on further information being n?nt to tae police office,
Boughey, a polite officer, Went to the quay with assistants;
Boughcy succeeded In finding out the man who carted the casks,
and whose name is George Leech ; Leech readily accompanied hiwt
to the cellar whence he carted them, which Wound to be vitteated
under Dr..M‘flowan's school, at the back of Dr. M.G.'s house in
Hope-street ; the cellar was padlocked, but, by the ;ski of a erow.
has, Boughey succeeded in forciog nn entrance. and on trarebtor
therein, he found four caskt, all containing human hndit.e, salted a.
Meatier: were, and threecasks, each containing a dead belly„
1 i He
altiolbund a syringe, of thit description wtr.ll is used for theepur-
pose ef In :Leming hot wax into the veins and arteries of the dead
bodies used for the rurpose of anteornizstion; lie elan tOalld a
variety of ataotk.frocks, jackets. and tructsers,whicle.ro doubt a ete
generally used by the resteTrainNists to digitise theniselvel. In
this cellar were found 22 dead bodies, pirkled and !roil, and in the
casks on the quay ClC7eft, making in the Thelon 'rho aorta de.
berthed the persons who employed him rt , f a very respect:del.;
appearance, but lie tiid not know the names of any of them ; that
he was merely desired to take the casks to the vessel, with the stoup.
ping note, deseribSsyr them as containing " bit tt r salts." .
114mm:then of the above circumstance, 'fere speedily eon nntrui.
entail to hie Ationthip the 31ayeit. who sent for Dr. kl•Gowan. Th'i
Ft./Weller:tan is a Reverend Divine, and teacher of languages ' • he at.
tended the Mayer Immediately. and in answer to the quesnons per.
1 to him, we understand he said,' ther lie let his cellar In January
Iva to a perann named Ilendeeson, who, he understood, carried tut
I the oil trade, and that he know motidng about any dead bodies
i being Mere.

Richard Mullin, Esq. Alderman and C.,?otter• soon as lie
nf the circumstance, determined on sammuntng a Jury to decade or:
the mode of the deaths of the deceased persons, b.it no evidenot t..
that effect bring produe,d, it Tv' 33 deemed by hi.o unnecessary to
summon a Jury ; the following depositions on n.L.11 were, howtrer.
given before him, and the bodice ordered to be burie I.

George Leech deposed that he plies for hire as a carter (the cart
belongs to his brother); ycaterday afternoons between three ant
four o'clock, a tall stout man asked him the charge of carting three
ensks from Ilepe-street to George's Dock-passage ; he replied':..
They then went to Hope-street, where the witness found two
men getting the first cask not of a cellar under Dr. 111`nowa•
school.rootn, and witness assisted to get two other casks out of et
cellar ; the three were then put into his cart, and,tho man who en..
ployed him gave him a shipping note. describing the casks as co--
gaining " Bitter 5...1t5," and told him to becareful in laving them
down upon the quay, and that they were to be forwarded to Won.
burgh by the Latons. The man gave him lid. extra besides it a
cartaw. Mute's then drove toward, the quay, and Ilse not are.,
any of the men since. Vitness took the casks to rite quay
George's Dock-passage, and offered the shipping note to theniate
of the Latona, who told him to take it to the Garton Compaq',
warehouse in Hedcluss-strect; he did at., and left it on the eoutner
of the warehouse; witness identified the casks seized by the . olive
as the same which he had conveyed front llope.strect to George's
Dock quay.
Bohm 13oughey, a police-officer, deposed, thane being informed
there were some casks containing dead bodies op the vas' C
George's Dock passage, he went there, and found Agee casts con-
taining several dead bodies, male and female. George Leech stated
that he had been employed to cart them from a cellar in Hope.
street, and, according to his directions, witness took some other eoa -
stabler; Kith him to a cellar under Dr. 31.0owan's school-room,
!lope-street ; the door was lacked, and Dr. 111.0awan said be had
let the cellar to a cooper named Henderson, in January last, situ
he understood Henderson carried on the oil trade there. Witness
forced open the cellar dom, and found therein several casks and
sacks, in which were a number of dead bodies. Witness ordecol
them to be removed to the dead-house in Chapel-street.

Mr. Thomas William Dawes, surgeon, of St. Paul's-Roam
deposed that he had examined the bodies by the directions of it:
Coroner. In one cask he found the bodies of two women and ono
man ; in another two women and two men ; in the third three mr
and one woman, and in the other casks and sacks he found 2" bodies.
vii. 9 men, 5 women, 5 boys, and 3 girls ; the bodies were alt
in a perfect state; those in the casks appeared to have been dead
six or seven t:ays, and three men found in the sacks appeared to
have been dead only three or four days. In each of the casks, at.
a large quantity of salt. There were no external marks of
fence, hut there was a thread tied round the toe!, of one of the
w.'-
men, which it is usual for some families to do immediately af:,r
death. Witness had no reason to believe but that they died in .1
natural way, and he had no dJubt but the bodies had all lion Ms•
Interred.

The police were ordered to be upon the alert, to discover the per-
sons who hail been engaged in this transaction, but as )et nothii
further has been ascertained. The bodies, by direction ni the CJ.
toner, were buried this evet.ing in the pariah cemetery, iu tasks, ts
they were found.
The Coroner's warrant for the burial of these bodies states, that
There is no evidence to make it appear to a Jury how, or be
what mean., the said bodies severally came to their deaths; and
there is every reason to belicee that the said bodies have been dis-
interred by some evil-disposed persons."
ft is not yet ascertained whence these bodies have been bro4gl.l.
but it is supposed that the Liverpool Workhouse cemetery has been
the principal sufferer. Some of them are CO putrid that it is ex-
tremely dangerous to handle them.

I understand the reason of such a number of bodies being ex-
ported front different parts of England to Scotland is the difficulty
of obtaining bodies for the schools of anatomy in the latter countt,
so strict are the parish officers in appointing a sufficient guard round
the Farish burial grounds. Dead bodies Ire now, it is said. swat
front 61. to 10/. in Scotland, in consequence of the lectures nose
commencing for the season.

Bint.e SOCIETv.—The following is a copy of the Minute
expressing the decision of the Presbytery of Glasgow on
this subject, at their late meeting :
" The Presbytery having, agreeably to the Resolution espressel
in their Minutes of the hl August last, taken up, in preference ta
all other business. the consideration of the Report of the Committee
respecting the British and Foreign Bible Society, the said Report
was read, and, after long reasoning, the Presbytery did, and here-
by do declare., that, while they retain unabated their attachment 1.1
the principles originally adopted by the British and Foreign Bible.
Society, and their zeal for the most extensive dissemination of the
Holy Scriptures, yet, disapproving of the proceedings of the So.
ciety, in regard to the circulation of the Apocrypha, and certaia
translations of the Scriptures, and not satisfied with the Means
adopted for guarding against similar proceedings in future, they Ma •
not eclnsider themselves justified in renewing for the present dimu
accustomed collection in aid of its funds; but they resolve to con-
tinue an annual collection for objects conriected with the eirmaintisa
of the eleriptures, to be applied in support of such specific roes.
sures as shall from time to time be approved of by the Presbytery.
They further agreed that a Committee, via. the notlsratin Dr,
Dewar, and Mr. M'Firlan, he appointed to prepare a levee, ful
letter to Lord feignmouih, the President of the :tzortetv,
mg at great length the reasons of this Resolution."

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