By Casey Weitz
An
update has been made on the case of the sheep murderer. From our previous
installment, Mr. Herder posted an advertisement asking for details containing
why his sheep were being murdered and who was responsible. The accused were
responsible for five sheep murders over the past two months and Mr. Herder was
demanding justice.
Two young women were found guilty of murdering Mr. Herder’s sheep. The two women were
found guilty on the evidence that they had taken the sheep from the herd and
dismantled the body. The two ladies were found carrying the meat from the sheep
which undoubtedly made them guilty. Justice has been served and Mr. Herder is
still without his sheep, but glad the guilty will be punished. One woman was
sentenced to ten years transportation and the other was sentenced to a year’s
imprisonment.
This
article is an idea from the last eperiodical which featured the advertisement
for the wanted “sheep murderer”. Both ideas were from Household Words, 1/2/1850,
pg. 38; in a section titled Narrative of Law and Crime. The section featured
certain crimes that were committed and the punishment received from the courts.
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