A Burglar Caught by a Skeleton & Other Singular Tales from the Victorian Press

Author:Clay, Jeremy [Clay, Jeremy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: newspaper reports, Victorian, comedy, horror, Illustrated Police News
Publisher: Icon Books
Published: 2013-09-04T23:00:00+00:00

Shocking and Fatal Mistake

A Dalziel despatch, dated Jasper (Indiana), Nov 26, states: A farmer named Thomas Atkins, while hunting yesterday, noticed that his dog had tracked something in a hollow tree-trunk. Thinking that he had found a ‘catamount,’ Atkins called off his dog and shot into the end of the trunk.

He then took a stick and pushed out the object that he had shot. It proved to be the body of his own boy, aged four years, whose head had been completely blown off. Atkins attempted to commit suicide when he found what he had done, but did not succeed.

The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, November 27, 1891

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