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ktrby’s wonderful museum.
and said, “Now, my lady, I will be revenged of you; I
have a knife in my pocket, and I will have both your lives
and your money.” Mrs. H. replied, he should not have her
money but with her life. A violent scuffle ensued, when
Mrs. H. was again fortunate enough to get such hold of
him as to enable her to prevent him from carrying his threats
into execution, and to secure him till a person came to her
assistance. They immediately took the fellow before a ma-
gistrate, who committed him to the county gaol.
Courier, October 21, 1814.
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JOHANNA SOUTHCOTT’S FOLLOWERS.
We gave a full account of Johanna Southcott in Vol. V.
of our Work, page 337, with an account of her death, a sin-
gular will, and a list of persons who had presented her with a
great variety of articles, for what they foolishly expected, a
Shiloh. Having so exposed them, every one thought their
folly would have died with her. Instead of that, the follow-
ing will shew, that she is not yet quite forgotten-
Notwithstanding the ridicule and contempt to which the
followers of Johanna Southcott were exposed some years
back, when that unfortunate creature paid the debt of Na-
ture without bringing forth the promised Shiloh, of whom
her disciples publicly declared she was pregnant, a scion
of the old stock has again sprung into something like cele-
brity, and has contrived to draw round him a few credu-
lous fools, whom he has taught to believe that Shiloh was
actually born, although invisible to the eyes of the disbe-
lievers, and will shortly come forward, and, as he says,
“ Shame the devil,” and put an end to all doubts of his
divine mission. This wretched fanatic made his appearance
at Camden Town, on Wednesday last, October 14, 1818,
attended by about a dozen of his followers. He took up
his station near the pound, and delivered a long discourse on
ktrby’s wonderful museum.
and said, “Now, my lady, I will be revenged of you; I
have a knife in my pocket, and I will have both your lives
and your money.” Mrs. H. replied, he should not have her
money but with her life. A violent scuffle ensued, when
Mrs. H. was again fortunate enough to get such hold of
him as to enable her to prevent him from carrying his threats
into execution, and to secure him till a person came to her
assistance. They immediately took the fellow before a ma-
gistrate, who committed him to the county gaol.
Courier, October 21, 1814.
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JOHANNA SOUTHCOTT’S FOLLOWERS.
We gave a full account of Johanna Southcott in Vol. V.
of our Work, page 337, with an account of her death, a sin-
gular will, and a list of persons who had presented her with a
great variety of articles, for what they foolishly expected, a
Shiloh. Having so exposed them, every one thought their
folly would have died with her. Instead of that, the follow-
ing will shew, that she is not yet quite forgotten-
Notwithstanding the ridicule and contempt to which the
followers of Johanna Southcott were exposed some years
back, when that unfortunate creature paid the debt of Na-
ture without bringing forth the promised Shiloh, of whom
her disciples publicly declared she was pregnant, a scion
of the old stock has again sprung into something like cele-
brity, and has contrived to draw round him a few credu-
lous fools, whom he has taught to believe that Shiloh was
actually born, although invisible to the eyes of the disbe-
lievers, and will shortly come forward, and, as he says,
“ Shame the devil,” and put an end to all doubts of his
divine mission. This wretched fanatic made his appearance
at Camden Town, on Wednesday last, October 14, 1818,
attended by about a dozen of his followers. He took up
his station near the pound, and delivered a long discourse on