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Alexandria Gazette & Daily Advertiser
Alexandria, Virginia
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In Westchester, a deputy constable from Eastnammel township seized a man's corpse en route to burial for debt and attempted to bring it to jail. The sheriff refused, the constable was arrested and bound over for court, and the corpse was properly interred.
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Westchester, March 15.
On Saturday afternoon last, a deputy constable from Eastnammel township, arrived in this Borough, with the corpse of a man, which, while on the way to interment, he had seized for debt, and brought to jail.-- The Sheriff very properly refused to receive it. The constable was immediately arrested and bound over for his appearance at court for the act. The corpse was removed and decently interred.
Our feelings would lead us to speak in terms of warmth of this foul transaction, which would have disgraced the darkest age of heathen barbarism, but as the subject will undergo a judicial investigation, we suppress them.
[Village Record.
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Westchester
Event Date
Saturday Afternoon Last
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constable arrested and bound over for court; corpse removed and decently interred.
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A deputy constable from Eastnammel township seized a man's corpse while it was on the way to interment for debt and brought it to jail in Westchester Borough. The Sheriff refused to receive it. The constable was immediately arrested and bound over for court. The corpse was removed and decently interred.