American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-01-14
From the Spirit of the Times

TIL + L f s Il X &c ITO n | ST 5.
AS we returned to our lodgings, our CONVEX
sation naturally turned upon the agitatIng
event we had Just witnessed, and the extreme
caution necessary in the procuring OF subjects
for anatomical examination. Lee related an
occurrence that had happened to DR.. --,
a gentleman of high standing in South Caro-
lima.
Shortly after the American Revolution, he
visited Europe for the purpose of pursuing his
medical studies, and was received into the
family of the same distinguished individual
whom he had Just heard lecture, then begin
ming to rise to eminonce and notice; an advan-
tage which was necessarily confined to a very
few. In one of the dark and stormy nights in
December, MIR. Hunter and his wife having
been called to the bedside Of dying relative
in the country, as DR.. - was quietly sit
ting at the parlour fire, absorbed in his studies,
he was aroused by a hurried ring at the street
door, and rising, went to answer 1t himself
Upon opening the door, a hackney coach, with
its half-drowned horses, presented itself at the
side of the walk, and two men, i'll slouched
hats and heavy sailor coats dripping with
water, standing upon the steps, inquired in a
low tone if he wanted a subject. Being an
swered in the affirmative, they opened the car
rage door, lifted out the body, which was en-
veloped in a sack, and having carried it up
stairs TO the dissecting room, which was the
garnet, received the two guineas which they
had demanded, and withdrew. The affair was
not unusual, and DR.. --, resuming his
book, soon forgot the transaction. About
ii o'clock, while still absorbed in his studies,
he heard u violent female shrek i'll the entry,
and the next instant, the servant maid, dash
ing open the door, fell senseless upon the car
l. Il,, Il stab yp,i rn -hn hAlI
rolling some distance as it fell.
, Perceiving that the cause of alarm, whatev-
er it might be, was without, he caught up the
candlestick, and, Jumping over her PROSTATE
form, rushed into the hall, where an object met
his view which might we'll have tried the nerves
of the strongest man. Standing half way down
the staircase was fierce, grinl-lOoking man,
perfectly naked, his eyes garing ieartully and
wildly from beneath coarse shock OF dark hair,
which nearly conceallng a narrow forehead,
partially mpeded stream Of blood trjcklmg
down the side of the face, from deep scratch
in the temple. In one hand he grasped shaIp
long belt knife, such as is used by ringers and
sailors, the other holding on by the bannister,
as he somewhat bent over TO meet the gaze OF
the Doctor rushing into the entry. The truth
flashed across the mind of Dr.. --- in an in
slant, and, with admirable presence of mind,
he made one spring, catching the man by the
wrist which held the knife, in way that pre-
vented his using it.
ain the name of God where am am Il" de-
manded the man in horror-strlcken voice;
fam to be murdered"
"Silence not a whisper" stenly answered
DR.. -, looking him steadily in the eyes
"sence, and your life is safe "
Wrenchit g the knife from his hand, he pull
III H. inf tha
yard, and hurrying through the gate, first ran
with him through one alley, then into another,
and finally rapidly through third, till, COM
ing to an outlet upon one of the narrow and
unfrequented streets, he gave him violent
misunderstanding his steps again on the wings
of the wind, pulling to and doubly locking the
gate behind him, leaving the object of this
alarm perfectly bowldered and perpexed, and
entirely ignorant of the place from whence he
had been so summarily elected. The precau-
ton and presence Of mind of DR.. - most
probably saved the house of Mr.. Hunter from
being torn down and sacked by the mob which
would have been instantly collected round it,
had the aggIieved party known where to have
led them to wreak his vengeance.
After few days, inquiry was carefully and
cautiously made through the police, and it was
ascertaned that three men answering the de-
scription of the resurrectionists and their VIC
tim had been drinking deeply through the af-
ternoon, in one of the low dens in the neigh
borhood of Mapping; that one had sunk into a
stupid state of ntoxlcaton, and had, in that si-
tuation, been stripped and placed in sack by
his companions, knife having been previous
ly placed in his hand that he might relieve
himself from his confinement upon his return
to sensblity; and that, in addition to the poor
wretch's clothes, they had realized the two
guineas for his body.
-, A SHOOTING AFFAIR. The Ripley (Miss.l
Advertiser contains an account of an alerca.
ton bcta cen Col. J. H. Buchanan and d. M
Sinclair of that place, on the ! It'll ult., in the
midst Of which, Sinclair shot Buchanan
Though the body with a rifle. Tho wound il