"An unhappy girl, aged 14, the daughter of a washer-woman, residing in John-street, drowned herself on Monday last, through being detected in an immoral act. An inquest was held on the body, and a verdict of felo de se, &c. was returned.
The wretched girl was buried at midnight on Wednesday, in Bartholomew yard, and without any funeral rites, or the slightest manifestation of sympathy.
The body was borne on a plank to the grave, by two men, in the clothes in which she was found, and literally pitched in head-foremost, without one single expression of affection or regret from the breast of a relative or friend."
An immoral act! - buried at midnight! - borne on a plank fom John Street to Bartholomew Yard?
What more to be said?
A tear to be shed?
Source: The Western Times,1st August 1835.
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