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Foreign News July 13, 1786

Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire

What is this article about?

Two men executed in Brussels for a brutal robbery where they gagged a couple, threw their infant into an oven, baked it, and tore its body apart before the parents' eyes.

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98% Excellent

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April 29. One of the greatest examples of savage cruelty the annals of mankind can produce, may be seen in the conduct of two men lately executed at Brussels. After gagging the husband and wife of the house they were resolved to plunder, in order to revenge themselves of the husband, who, in his struggle to break his cords, and prevent the robbery, happened to strike the legs of one of those hardened wretches, he immediately snatched an infant then in the cradle, and threw it into the oven, where this poor family were baking bread: the villains then threw fresh faggots into the grated part of it, and, as the father has since deposed upon oath, they drew it out at last with the baking hook, and, in wantonness of unexampled barbarity, tore it to pieces before the faces of the agonized parents, whom they pelted with the lacerated limbs. At what point will the human heart stop, when every principle of nature, religion and law, are broken down and trodden upon?

What sub-type of article is it?

Brutal Crime Execution

What keywords are associated?

Brussels Execution Savage Cruelty Infant Murder Home Robbery Barbaric Act

Where did it happen?

Brussels

Foreign News Details

Primary Location

Brussels

Event Date

Lately

Outcome

infant killed by baking in oven and dismemberment; two men executed.

Event Details

Two men robbed a house in Brussels, gagged the husband and wife. When the husband struck one robber's leg while struggling, the robber threw the infant from the cradle into the baking oven, added faggots, baked it, then tore the body with a hook and pelted the parents with the limbs.

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