The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-01-31 00:00:00

ALLEGED THEFT OF A BODY FROM A

WORKHOUSE.

On Wednesday *resists the Sheffield Board of Guardiase
holds protracted inquiry into a most remarkable case. A
mon named John Wood. formerly a draper in easy sitcom-
stances in fthelleld. has for seratal mars been in difilculty,
sad latterly lived with his wife In lodgings In Weetudreet,
On Sattirdey Wood becaroe exceedingly ill and bights was
despaired of. Hill landlady. •ho had three other lodgers,
was afraid that if Wood 41.4 1. her house the other three
lodgers might leave. no therefore requested Mn. Wood
to remove her dying husband to the workhouse. A cab
was procored, and the pas fellow, accompanied by Me
wife, wee driven to the workhouse, a distance of over
two miles. There Wood only survived fire minutes
after Ming put in bed. The same manias the widow
arranged to have her husband buried on Tuesday. On
that day ehe attended with several relatives from Kan.
' cheater, who were anxious to me the capes. lira Weed
accordingly asked that the body might be shown to
them. She was Informed by the.. In charge of the
Onion desel.bouse that the oath was screwed up. At
her request, a coffin, bearing her husband's initials on
a kW, wm opened, when it was found that the eorpm
was that of a than of 75. while her Mislead was only XL
The body was afterwards identified aa that of an aged
Eaureer named Ms. The attention of the governor. Mr.
Honig, having been called to the matter, he made inquiry,
and it wee discovered that Wood's body bad been takes
to the medical school in Surrey-Are/et, over two miles
away. A cab wet peocwed, and the body broueht beck.
The widow insisted before the gthedians on Friday that
the body bore marks of the operator's knife upon the
neck, which wee swollen level with tbe chin, and stated
that there wag blood upon the shirt A neighbour added
that there wore nine lancet marks on the neck. Yr.
Heath% the ()Torpor. said he had been assured by the
medical men that nothing had been done to the body,
but the widow and her friends stubbornly adhered to their
ststemeot. It appthrs that the bodies, when taken late
the dead-home at lb. workhouse, the labelled with the
loitials of ho dead persona There are usually four aseist-
nuts in rharse. One of these emistante was dismissed on
fistoodity by the governor, and betas* he left, accortottly,
the statement of the governor, tempered with the
and thus mixed up the bodies, out of spite at his removal.
The workhouee authorities adjourned the ease for a week
to admit of the fullest investigation.

Ti CONOUSAIRONAL Ullloll.—Tlio first list. saninnating
to ZPZ,4IOO in definite peomissa, of contributions to the
Surcial Jubilee Fund in the Ompergational Union hew Just
hien issue& In Wales • remarkable movement liss been
I initiated in oonnectiou with It to reduce the debts on the
Ousg,,,,siotat churches of the Principality. which are
' said to amount to £170,000. Of this. 1:30,000 vista upon
the Walsh chinches in the likerida Valley-es district un-
happily so well known on amount of the terrible colliery
disasters of remelt years. Though the district ischielly In-
habited by collier., yet at • reyereasntstare meeting re-
cantly held at the Touistrad. the church*. pledged
themselves to raise the whole of this amount during the
sox, sight ,ire, with SlO,OOO interrat thereon.
gnus COC•a—OILATErtII. AND COIIPOITIti0.—" By a
thorman giseeriedge of the natural laws which govern the
opOroWoos of digestion outrider), and by a careful anvil-
eetion of the Goo properties of well-selected Cocoa, Mr.
Zppg has provided oar breakfast tables with a delicately
Savoured beverage which may mare us many hravy
doctors Bill& It is by the Judicious um of such articles
of diet that • constitution may be gradually built op until
to Todd, *very imadooey to &mos.
litruTt Maof me,
reds übtle maladies are Battu/is mount us ready
to attack wherever there is • weak point. We may escape
many • fetid shaft by keeping °armies. well fortified with
pur, blood sod a properly nourished fracce."—Cisil
Scrota Gamic—Mods simply with boillag water or milk.
Sold only an Packets labialed—"Jaltss Zees I Co.,
togaorartic cheseleht London."—Aiso mak= d
artao• for stiersoce siss.