Hi Have only subscribed, so I can pass this on. If I've chosen the wrong list, would SKS please forward it for me? Will be unsubbing right after sending this. Thanks, Caroline Boston NOTTSGEN, DERBYSGEN, ENG-KENT member http://www.londonancestor.com/bells/1827-starve.htm (No.1827, Sunday, April 3, 1831.) A Prisoner starved to Death. An inquest was held at Rochdale, a few days since, on the body of a young man named Richard Pilling, a pauper in the Wardleworth workhouse. It appeared that the deceased had been taken to the prison, and confined in a solitary cell, in which there was no bed, no covering, nor any thing for him to lie down upon but a bench of wood of about a yard broad; that he had been confined therein fifteen days, and was discovered by a person (who was appointed to consign another wretched being to the same den) lying naked on the stone floor, which was covered with filth! He was in a dying state, with a portion of his clothes in his mouth, and he had been in that state nearly the whole of his imprisonment. In consequence of representations made by the person who discovered the unhappy man, he was carried, about ten o'clock that night, to the workhouse, where he died in ten hours afterwards. The jury returned a verdict that he "died from hunger;" and in consequence Richard Hargreaves, Eli! zabeth (otherwise Betty) Burrows, and Hannah Holt, were committed to Lancaster for manslaughter. -Manchester Herald.