The Sun.
London, England, 1819-10-14 00:00:00

SUBJECTS FOR THE SURGEONS.

Gump ALL.—A decent-looking labouring Ingo,
who gave his name John Williams, was brought
up yesterday before Alt.. Aiderrnaso ScHoLaY,
charged under the following rather singular cir-
CIIITIStHOCeb

The Chatham coach to London, which puts up at the Cross
Keys-inn, Wood-street., Cheapside, arrived there on Tt:esday
morning exteernely lwavily loaded, not indeed with passen-
gers, but packages, and the coachman. who is also the owner.
of the coach, was consuliug himself for the sibsenee of the for-
mer, by the unusual increase of the latter innonir. these I ne-
hages were two of snore than ordinary size, the oue a ham-
per, addressed to Joseph Wright, No. 33, Old-street, to he lett
till called for, and the other a heavy enclosure in a ittat,dircet-
ed to William Simpson, Na. titS, Oxford-street, with a similar
direction, to to left act he inn till sent ,far. '['his last-oieit
tinned package, from the porter's ioattention to the latter
part of the direction, was taken by hint in the course of the
day to No. I Y 6, Oxford-street, hut no Mr. Simpson was to he
found there, near had they any knowledge of a parcel coming
from Chatham. this of course seemed very unaccountable,
and on the return of the porter with his hell, led to sus-
picion that all was not as it should be ; and as from the heat
of the day, and the shaking the package bad hid, the efflo-
Via leen, it pointed out pretty acenrately its contents, the
people of the inn ventured to open it; when it was found to
contain the corpse of an elderly fent tle : notice wits then
given to the beadle of the parish, who opened the other
package, in which was the head and body of an elderly man.
Information was accordingly tells t, the Coroner, aril in the
interim, preparations were made fur the reception at the per-
soli who sight come to claim the packagoS: Early yesterday
morning the prisoner came to the Cross Keys, to inquire for
the parcials, and produced cards with the counter-directions
he.was permitted to pay for the carriage of both, and a coach
was called. into which he wah'ahout to convey one of them,
When the ottieerS, whit were in waiting, made their appearance
and took hitv.in custody. The prisoner at that time refused
to give tiaiae, or say where he was about to take the
packages to,
Mr. SinipSon, the owner and driver of the coach which
brought the bodies to town on Tuesday, bad returned back be
fore the disoovery was made ; he had, however, arrived in town
again yesterday; before the examination came on at this
office; but he could giVe no account by whom the bodies were
sent, us he lives. at Chathain, and the Coach aims up a mile
further on, at ilromptots ; and the packages were on the coach
whro brbm:elit it to hint at Chatham: but from some
cohversatiou he had with him, arising from the eiae of the
packages,.he conjectured they had been put on the coach be-
tween livutapton and Chatham.
The peisauer, when asked for his defence, said, he WWI
porter, at the service of any one who would employ him, but
bad no regular inasto he lived at No. 5, Star-corner, Lang-
liconondscy, and was suet by a gentleman in tit.
Thomas's-street, Burongli, on Tuesday, who gave hint the
cards to go for the packages, and the money to pay for the
carriage; his directions were to bring them to the corner of
St. Thumas's-street, where, the gentleman was to meet him.
Thif, account was, however, different to the one he had given
to the'aiticers, to whom lie confessed he knew the gentleman
lie was tU take:the bodies to, but he did not choose to bring
any body into trouble but himself.
From these circumstances it was evident the bodies were
intended as subjects for some surgeons, and from t he account
given ut them by, a medical gentleman who had examined
them, it did not appear that the selection of the subjects did
any creAlt. to the judgment 'of the agent in the country.—
The rewrite body was that of an elderly woman, who, he
judged, had-died of it consumption, it being wasted to a mere
ske4ttan„, I:tie ouster corpse was that of a- corpulent old man,
who, from the external marks of blistering and Weeding, he
conjectured had died inflammation of the lungs; this latter
subject bad itnelitte stem, so that the corpse will probably be
easily recognized, The Medical Gentleman was-also of opi-
nion that betli the bodies had been disinterred.—The pri-
soner was r'enialided.