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wretched perpetrator of this deed 

 was about 30 years of age, had 

 always borne a good character, and 

 was considered to be a man pos- 

 sessing property. He had trans- 

 acted business on the Saturday 

 preceding ; was seen walking on 

 the Hoe, at Plymouth, on the sab- 

 bath evening, with his family, ap- 

 parently a happy group ; and had 

 promised to meet several trades- 

 men at Plymouth-dock on Monday 

 morning. 



Another account. — On Monday 

 morning Mr. Hyne rose early, leav- 

 ing Mrs. Hyne asleep, and having 

 sent his two maid servants out of the 

 house on frivolous errands, he took 

 the youngest child, about thirteen 

 months old, to the bottom of the 

 garden, and cut its throat; he 

 then returned to the kitchen, and 

 placed the child on a chair. The 

 next victim was a fine child, three 

 years of age, whose brains he 

 blew out with a pistol. He 

 then rushed up the stairs to his 

 wife's chamber, found her awak- 

 ing, kissed her, and discharged a 

 pistol at her ; the ball entered the 

 left breast. He then went on the 

 staircase, fired a pistol at his left 

 breast, rushed down stairs, and 

 dropped dead in the kitchen. The 

 report of Mrs. Hyne's death is 

 premature ; and from some 

 symptoms which have appeared, 

 her recovery is thought to be not 

 impossible. 



A coroner's inquisition was taken 

 on Monday last, at Osbournby, 

 near Falkinghafn, on the body of a 

 man named Page, who had died 

 under circumstances of peculiar 

 horror. The deceased was a pau- 

 per, belonj^ing to the parish of Silk 

 Wiiloughby, but not choosing to 

 Btay Ui the workhouse, he was 



in the habit of strolling about from 

 town to town, subsisting upon the 

 provision which he begged. It 

 was his custom to deposit what he 

 procured in this way beyond the 

 immediate cravings of nature, with- 

 in his shirt next to his body ; and 

 having considerable store of meat 

 and bread so placed, he, in the 

 early part of last week, it is sup- 

 posed, feeling unwell, laid himself 

 down in a field in the parish of 

 Scredington, to sleep. The meat, 

 from the heat of the weather and 

 of the man's body, soon becoming 

 putrid, was struck by flies ; and 

 in a short time the maggots which 

 were so occasioned, not only prey- 

 ed upon the inanimate pieces of 

 flesh, but began literally to con- 

 sume the living substance. Fa- 

 voured by the drowsiness and sloth 

 of the wretched man, these ver- 

 min made such havoc in his body, 

 that when, on Tuesday, he was 

 found by some persons who were 

 accidentally passing in the field, he 

 presented a sight disgusting in the 

 extreme. White maggots, of an 

 enormous size, were crawling in 

 and upon his body, and the re- 

 moval of the outer ones only 

 served to show hundreds of others, 

 which had penetrated so deeply, 

 that it was clear the very vitals of 

 the miserable man were invaded by 

 them. Page was conveyed to 

 Osbournby, and a surgeon was 

 immediately procured, who dress- 

 ed the parts affected ; but the suf- 

 ferer died in a few hours after. 

 The jury returned a verdict to the 

 effect that thedeceased was " eaten 

 to death by maggots ! " 



8. Avery extraordinary robbery 

 took place at Galley's Quay, at the 

 Custom-house, early this morning. 

 Ten bales of valuable silk, and two 



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