A Ghastly Joke.
A gliastly joke has been perpetrated by three young men who were charged at f-he Bingley Petty Sessions (near Bradford) with breaking into a dwell-ing-house at Bingley. It appear that an elderly man, who lived in a house by himself, died, and a woman volunteered to prepare the body for burial. Having completed her task, she locked the door, leaving the body out on the bed ready for burial, intending to return in the morning before the funeral took place. The prisoners, knowing thecircumstances, during the nie-ht broke into the house where the deceased was laid, remov.d he body from the bed, and reared it up in a sitting" posture in a chair by the fireside. The woman on entering the house on the following morning found the corpse in the position in which the prisoners left it, and was greatly shocked. When she recovered her_elf she examined the deceased, and than found out the trick which had been played. She gave inform ation to the police, and from enquiries made by taem the prisoners were apprehended. The Bench inflicted upon each of the prisoners' a fine of £5 and costs, with the alternative of two months' imprisonment.
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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 93, 19 April 1883, Page 3
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202A Ghastly Joke. Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 93, 19 April 1883, Page 3
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