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<DATE>2007-09-03</DATE>
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<NAME>Elspeth Healey</NAME>
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<HEAD><HI>Mo&s;t Strange and VVonderful News from a place call'd the</HI> LEISTER, <HI>By</HI> Ca&s;tle-Street, <HI>in the Pari&s;h of St.</HI> Martins <HI>in the</HI> Fields: Of a mo&s;t Dreadful Di&s;covery of a Murther of a Man and a Child, made on <HI>Sonday</HI> Morning being the 11th in&s;tant, on a Dunghill there; of the finding the <HI>Skin,</HI> and <HI>Nails</HI> of a Mans Hands, with his Privy-Members, Heart, Liver, Brea&s;t, and great Quantities of the Fle&s;h of his Buttocks, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> al&s;o the Hart, Liver, Hand, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> of a Child, with the &s;trange Manner of the Di&s;co|very by a Butcher, and one <HI>John Williams</HI> a Labouring Man.</HEAD>
<P>AS for the Hainou&s;ne&s;s of this <HI>Sin</HI> of Murther, I &s;uppo&s;e none can be ignorant that it is of the deepe&s;t Die, <HI>a mo&s;t loud crying Sin.</HI> This we may &s;ee in the fir&s;t Act of this kind, that ever was committed, <HI>Abel</HI>'s Bloud crieth from the Earth, as God tells <HI>Cain,</HI> Gen. 4 10. And it is worth our Notice, what &s;trange &amp; miraculous means it hath often plea&s;ed God for to ufe for the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2+ letters">covery of this <HI>Sin;</HI> the very Brute Creatures have often been made In&s;truments of it: Nay, often the extream horrour of a man's own Con&s;cience that will in &s;pite of him be privy to the Fact, and that very often proves a means of di&s;covering of it to the <HI>World.</HI> But to <HI>proceed to the Relation:</HI></P>
<P>ON <HI>Sonday</HI> the 11th of <HI>March</HI> In&s;tant, an hone&s;t <HI>Butcher</HI> coming over a place call'd the <HI>Le&s;ter,</HI> a Heap of <HI>Dung-hills</HI> near <HI>Ca&s;tle &s;treet,</HI> not far from St. <HI>Giles</HI>'s<HI>-Church,</HI> e&s;pied the Skins and Nails, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> of a Chri&s;tians Hands, which taking up, and being Very curious, &s;hew'd them to &s;ome of the Neighbours, upon which great &s;earch was made, in order to a farther Di&s;covery; and between Eleven and Twelve at <HI>Noon,</HI> one <HI>John Williams,</HI> a <HI>Labouring-man,</HI> di&s;covered [about 30 yards from the Place where the <HI>Hands</HI> were found) the <HI>Privy-members, Heart Liver and Skin of the Brea&s;t of a man; and at the &s;ame Time were fouund great quantities of pieces of Fle&s;h, &s;uppo&s;ed to be cut off from the Buttocks and Thighs of the &s;aid Per&s;on, cover'd over with a little Bubbi&s;h onely: al|&s;o there was then found the Skinny part of the Hand of a Child, with the Heart</HI> and <HI>Liver,</HI> &amp;c. as &s;ince upon the View of &s;everal able <HI>Chyrurgi|ans,</HI> it does mo&s;t plainly and evidently appear; the Skin and Fle&s;h was fre&s;h and &s;weet; which &s;hews it was but newly done.</P>
<P>At This In&s;tant further &s;earch is made in all parts thcre abouts, in hopes to find the Heads, Legs, Arms and other Limbs belonging to the&s;e Bo|dies, that &s;ome Light may be given as to the Murtherers and murthered. But at pre&s;ent there is not any per&s;on we hear of, that is &s;o much as gue&s;&s;ed at: It was ob&s;erved, That the Skin of the mans Hands were ex|traordinary White, &s;o that 'tis thought they belonged to no mean per&s;on: <HI>That this Horrid and mo&s;t Barberous Murther may be detected and the</HI> Anthours <HI>thereof brought to Condign Puni&s;hment, is and ought to be the Prayers of all</HI> good <HI>Chri&s;tians, to whom this Relation &s;hall come.</HI></P>
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