A large company who
followed, with the mourners, soon after retired, and left the
officer in charge of the body. After lying in this situation
for some time, one of the Grand Jurors ordered it out of the
high road; this was complied with by the Sheriff, by placing it
under the window of the said Bangs, and about sunset still
further removed it into Bangs' dwelling-house. By this inhuman
proceeding the aged parents were deprived of seeing their last
and only son buried, as were the widow of the deceased and five
children. So distressing a scene never was witnessed in this
place, and perhaps not in the most barbarous nations. Between
seven and eight of the clock, the same evening, the body was
buried by a few individuals, and by the consent of said
Benjamin Bangs, Esq., after he had inflicted all the wounds he
could on the feelings of the poor grey-headed parents and their
relations."
The barbarity and illegality of this conduct of B.
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