The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-06 00:00:00

FETING A GRAVEDIGGER.

Broughty-ferry, near Dundee, has been for some
days the scene of considerable uproar, in conse-
quence of the resistance made by the population to
the attempts of the authorities to close a favourite
old burial-ground. On Wednesday a funeral under-
taker named Deas, and Wm. Skirving, a grave-
digger, both belonging to the Ferry, were brought
up in the Dundee Sheriff-court, charged with
illegally assisting in the interment of human re-
mains in the old burying-ground, after the latter
had been closed by order of the Privy Council.
Sheriff Smith found them both guilty, and sentenced

the gravedigger to pay a fine of £5, or go to prison
for two months, while ➢lr. Deas was mulcted in the
sum of £2, wish the option of thirty days' imprison-
ment. On the result of the trial becoming known

in Broughty-ferry, a subscription was organised for
the payment of Skirving's fine. The necessary
amount was speedily raised, and the popular sexton
liberated. The public honours showered upon the
gravedigger's head are thus described by the Dundee
Courier:—" Yesterday, about mid-day, great ex-
citement prevailed amongst our fishing population
in consequence of intelligence having arrived that
William Skirving, the gravedigger, had been fined
£5 in the Sheriff-court, Dundee, for digging graves
in the old burying-ground, after the latter had been
closed against their will. Shortly after the word
arrived, some persons commenced to gather sub-
scriptions for raising the amount of the fine, and
thereby securing Skirving's liberation. In about an
hour and a half the whole of the money required was
made up, and a person appointed to go to Dundee
and fetch Skirving home. The money, we believe,
was chiefly gathered from among the families of the
fishermen. A large number of the fisherwomen and
children assembled together in the afternoon,
and, preceded by three girls carrying large flags,
marched up to the station, to await the train which
leaves Dundee at 5.45 p.m., and with which it was
thought Skirving would arrive. Gn the arrival of
the train great cheering and singing commenced,
but subsided a little when it was found that Skirving
had been left behind. Before the arrival of the next
train the crowd increased to a very large extent.
An arm chair was brought on which to carry Skirv-
ing in triumph through the town. As the train
halted, and William hove in sight, the singing

commenced with renewed vigour, the vocalists a
ternately singing something like 'Skirving has won
the day ;' and ' We'll all feel gay when Skirviug
comes marching home.' On reaching the gate,
Skirving was put into the arm chair and carried by
six of the strongest fishermen present. The pro-
cession then marched down the street, the flags being
carried in front as before. At the time the crowd
left the station it was supposed that there were
three or four hundred present. The procession tra-
versed Gray-street, Brook -street, Fort-street, and
the beach, where they halted, a number of them, the
' hero of the day' among the rest, going into a
tavern there, where we suppose they had something
to 'strengthen their nerves.' On emerging from
the publichouse William again mounted the chair
and was carried as before along the beach, up Gray-
street, and down King-street until they arrived at
his house, where he got down amidst great cheering
and uproar. During the whole time William was
being carried aloft the crowd continued singing,
and the ' carriers,' when they got tired, placed the
chair on the ground, when its occupant got out and
commenced waving his hat and bowing to the crowd.
After the chair was emptied of its burden one of the
women got it upon her head, and, followed by the
girls carrying the flags and by a crowd which at this
time had swelled tremendously, they again pro-
ceeded up Fort-street until they arrived at the
house of Mr. Matthew Deas (who had also been
at the court in reference to the burying ground
case), where they gave three ringing cheers. They
then went singing and shouting through West
Brook-street and various other streets until about
8 o'clock, when they halted in front of the Victoria-
buildings, Gray-street, where they gave three ironi-
cal cheers and sung the four lines which they made
use of at the time of the last effigy burning, and
which have grown quite popular since that occur-
i ence. They then went their way singing mai
shouting as before, but not the way to their homes ;
and we cannot say at what time they broke up, as
they were heard long afterwards. Duripg the time
they were at the beach several of the women ex-
pressed themselves in rather strong language, one
of them proposing that they should gather all the
dead dogs between the Black Rocks and the Stan-
nergate and hang one of them, minus its head, on
the handle of the door of every one of the police
commissioners."
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dren wore assembled preparatory to attending afternoon
service at the church. Two little girls, aged respectively
eight and seven, wore killed on the spot, and four more
were injured, ono of them seriously, in addition to which
the school-house has sustained considerable damage. The
bell tower of the school seems to have attracted the elec-
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