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Advertiser Wednesday reported, "A striking instance of the way in which the Grand Jury laws operate to prevent public investigation, lately occurred at Stamford. In that corrupt place there has long existed a barbarous, disgusting, and disgraceful exhibition, called bull-running, which takes place annually on a given day. All the exertions of the Government and the local Magistracy to suppress this abominable nuisance, (for such it really is to all the respectable inhabitants,) have hitherto proved unavailing. The exhibition question took place on November last, when the usual riotous and disorderly proceedings occurred. Indictment against some the parties who took the most prominent part in the proceeding was preferred at the late borough sessions, when, although the evidence was, we understand, of the most clear and decisive character, a majority of the Grand Jury voted for throwing out the bill, which was accordingly done; and thus, for the present at any rate, further investigation is prevented."
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288:, some military troops, and police brought in from outside, to stop the bull run of 1837, but it happened anyway. The bull and the people ran through the security line, a riot ensued, and in the end no one was killed (not even the bull, which turned out to have been supplied by or stolen from a local lord, discreetly unnamed in contemporary reports).
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bells at 10.45 am opened the event, announcing the closing and boarding of shops and the barricading of the street with carts and wagons. By 11 am crowds gathered and the bull was released, baited by the cheering of the crowd, and (among other things) a man who would roll towards it in a barrel.
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Stamford man living who can remember the bull-running in the streets of the town. I can remember my mother showing me the bull and the horses and men and dogs that chased it. She kept the St Peter's Street â the building that was formerly the Chequers Inn at that time and she showed me
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Because the townsfolk were forced to bear the cost of this militia presence for several years in a row, they agreed to stop the practice on their own henceforth, and kept their word. The last known witness of the bull running was James Fuller
Scholes who spoke of it in a newspaper interview in 1928
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trial in July 1837 tried only five men and convicted three; William
Haycock, John Pearson and Richard for participating in the Bull running in November 1836. John Pearson was a private in the 6th regiment of Carbineers. This inspired some in the town to plan a bigger event for the next year. The
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the bull-running sport from a bedroom window. I was only four years old then, but I can clearly remember it all. The end of St Peter's Street (where it was joined by
Rutland Terrace) was blocked by two farm wagons, and I saw the bull come to the end of the street and return again.
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203:Enraged, they ran through Stamford.
184:You never saw the like, you'll say,
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233:We'll chevy-chase him up and down:
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