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I find many ‘Dead Ends’ during my research. Mere mentions of a body snatching attempt that quite often leads to nothing. I share them because otherwise they will be forgotten. They are intended to be just that, mere snippets of the past.
The Bone House…
The Morning Chronicle: 21 January 1831
On Sunday evening, as two men were driving at a furious rate through Woolwich in a one-horse cart, the wheel came in contact with a post and overturned them.
On several persons going to their assistance, the men scampered off, leaving the cart and horse behind them.
On searching a sack the dead body of a man was discovered, which proved to be the one that was placed in the bone-house preparatory to a Coroner’s Inquest, the individual having been drowned.
The horse and cart still remain unclaimed.
