The Grave Robbers Foiled

- While in Detroit a few days ago we had the privilege of examining a burial cwket and safe (or a safe bunal caskot) which has just been patented by John Gilbert, of Ypsilanti, and which, it would seem, raust furnish absolute protection to the dead body entrusted to its care until the sounding of the last trump. It Í9 constructed of hard boiler iron, 3-16 of an inch thick, with bars or straps of wrought iron running lengthwise along the inside aiigles, and around the upper edu, up and down corners, and transversely around the (iuuer) shell at small distances apart and securely bolted to the shell. Inside the shell is a wood case, nüatly and beautifully lined and trimmed, like any burial casket, and the case or safe is covered outwardly with black cloth or velvet, with silver trimmings and heavy ornamental handles, so that no one looking at it would have even a remote idea of material, weight, or strength. The cover is of the saine material as the case, and is faitened dowu by a senes of self-adjusting hooks and spruigs, or hookj which epring into place by the simple removal of a key or pin ; and once cloned cannot be opened except by the use of cold chisel and Bledge,-a work of from 18 to 24 hours. The weight dl the casket - some 350 to 400 Iba. without the body- would require several men to lift it from a grave, a fact alone almost securing protection, as uumbers do not engage in such work. And when lifted out the time and labor and noise necessary to open is another anc perfect guarantee against success. Consider ing the beauty, cost, and protection the caske affords, we are coufidetit that Mr. Gilbert has hit upott a good thing both for himself and the public.