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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.
Transported Beyond the Seas
Hampshire Chronicle: 16 June 1823
‘Two resurrection men have been tried at Edinburgh for stealing dead bodies, and sentenced to seven years transportation beyond the seas’
