Grave Robbery
The (leseeratiou of the venerable Hrrison's grave, neac Cincinnuti, is uofc out of the public mimi bcfore an equally ghoulish deed is reported from Cleveland. Mr. Edwin Frenoh, an aged resident of the town oL Willoughby, a few miles from Cleveland, died on Haturday and vu buried on Monduy in thefamily ■ lot in the vfUage eumetery. The case, from this point, presenta gome singular repetitions of the Harrison outrage. Mr. French's son, fearing that an iittempt might be made to rob the grave, hired i young jnan to watch it. Tlie youth absanted himselí teinporarilj', and the robbers took advantagc of thcir opportunity. Xotice of tho crime was i proniptly spread about, and o protraeted seiuch diseuvured a Cleveland bnggy which had been used all night, and on the seat oí which was a tuft of BH "ld niiin's gray hair. Of coui'He, none L tho officials of any medical college in OleyBland linil any knowledge of the whereaboate of the stolen body; bat the first oue searched, the homeopathie, on Prospect street, disclosed the disiigured j body. A vigorous prodding of th( 8Wdust on the ttoor of the di.ssecting-room revenled a trap-door, tightly tiailed. It was i] i-inM I . only to expose inoiv sawdost, false timbera and another j door. üeiieuth tliis, in u tank, was tlie body oí Mr. Freneh, a hideous gash in I his throat where tlie robbers1 hook had been inserted. None of the offleers f ! the institution had the slightest snspieion that the body was in the college of eourse not. Mr. Fréncli, during lus life, liad been o beneficiavv m the institnfion - a fact whieh may have constitnfi'd a claim ujion his body for the use of "science." Tüere are the usual assertions of a vigorous prosecution of the guilty part is. Every State should muke provisión for supplying these dootbr-factories with wlmt une uf their professors calis "medical college ]íiut." from ainong the uncliiiincd (l(id: I ml. docriicy. liimianity, ci lization itself, reqnire tlint a stop should be put to this ghoulish business of
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Subjects
Grave Robbing
Body Snatching
Old News
Michigan Argus