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Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIX, Issue 4931, 14 June 1873, Page 2 (Supplement)

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To the Editor : Sir, — When passing the cemetery tina mommy, my attontion wa3 arrested by two youths of tho name of Wilkes, who came cut of tho yard, and informed me that thero was a naked dead man ju»t inside, lying under tho wall, with his throat either cut or strangled. I went immediately back with them, and found that it waa '\ female, apparently about forty years old She was lying upon her back, with both arms and legs extended, and in a perfect state of nudity, with the exception of her boots, and a black scaif partially wrapped round her face. I slightly examined the corpse, and it la my firm conviction that oho must have entered there when intoxicated, either alono or with some guilty paramour, and, imagining herself going to bed, had entirely stripped herselt of clothing, and then lain upon them, thinking, no doubt, that she waa going to bed. The night beincj damp and cold she would «oon perith. I slightly removed the scarf to see if I could recognise the poor creature. She appeared liko one of those miserable objects I have so repeatedly seen skulking round some publichouse door ; and, Mr. Editor, it is to keep ■uch house* of temptation as theso open, and to manufacture such sickening spectacles as that I have just witnessed, that poor m•bnates are requested to siqn their names to tho publicans' petition at the bar 100ms aud Market-place. Poor deluded wretches ! many of them would sign their own death warrant for a. glass of spirits. I trust that there will be a strict investigation made of these signatures, and that not meroly fictitious names be giveD, but residence and occupation properly entered and witnessed —I am, Ac, C. SrR\uu, sen.