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1857
D.V. (Res.) December, 1857 A few evenings since, three persons called at a house in the locality of Newport Cattle Market, and one of them requested lodgings for the night. He was accommodated and the other, two gentlemen, seeing their friend in comfortable quarters took their leave. The lodger retired to bed, but not making his appearance downstairs by ten o'clock next morning the landlady supposed he might be ill and gently tapped at his room door but received no reply. A couple of hours more elapsed and the good woman again went up but this time peeped through the keyhole, when to her great alarm she saw her lodger stretched upon the bed apparently lifeless. She called up her husband who went into the bedroom and without hesitation pronounced their lodger to be a corpse. At this critical moment there came a loud knocking at the street door; on opening it the woman saw the same two men who had brought their lodger the night before. As soon as they saw her they said "You have a dead man in the house!" The woman said it was so, but asked how they knew it? "Oh it hath been revealed to us by the Angel of the Lord", said the prophets. The husband who appears to have been more wide awake than his wife said "Oh I see, I see!" and fetching a moderate sized walking stick, he ran up to the corpse to which he applied the stick so effectually that the corpse sprang out of bed with one bound huddled on his clothes with as little deliberation and darting down the stairs joined his brother prophets and the three decamped with the least possible delay. A similar 'dodge' to this has been reported to the police in other parts of the country. [ Back ] |
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