Butcher Murders Priest, Then Beheads Him at Own Funeral
A gruesome follow-up crime in which a butcher, suspected of already having killed a Catholic vicar, burst into a room during the funeral and beheaded the body.
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Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 13, 1885 · Page 1
1 min readGIBRALTAR, Feb. 10.
GIBRALTAR, Feb. 10. The butcher who murdered the Catholic vicar a few days ago and who is supposed to be insane, burst into the office where the vicar was lying in state at the funeral here, and severed his head from his body with a butcher's knife.
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