AN UNSEEMLY QUARREL
A Home paper, of a recent date, states that an unseemly exhibition was witnessed at the Brightside churchyard, Sheffield, on the 31st ult. The child of a Congrogatioualist named Penn was about to be buried, but the procession was met at the gate by the sexton, who demanded fees to the amount of 7s. Payment was refuted on the 6’’ oun “ that they were excessive, whereupon the gate was closed upon the parly. The father of the child and two friends, however, obtained admission, and one of them procured a spade and began to re-open the grave, which the sexton had filled up; but as fast as the earth was thrown out it wag returned. Eventually the coffin was taken home again. On Saturday morning the father returned to the churchyard with some men, who, in the presence of hundreds of persons, re opened a grave in which a child had bean buried. The sexton a”d his son tried to nrevent the men carrying out their wo»k, but the crowd put the sexton and hie son into the grave. They were rescued, but were held back by the crowd while the _ ceremony was proceeded with, a Oongregationalist minister conducting the service. Afterwards a collection was made to provide for Penn’s expenses.
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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2199, 14 March 1881, Page 3
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214AN UNSEEMLY QUARREL Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2199, 14 March 1881, Page 3
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