Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1857-11-25
From the .Jeferson Star.
BODY sMATCHIi.G IN BR0OKVILLE

On Sunday morning last, couple of boys
while passing through the alley North of JEFF
| ferson street, in this borough, discovered
! that the ice-house of X L. Blood, situate
| thereon, had been broken into during the
preceding night Knowing that considera-
bic quantity of butter had been stored in the
building, and supposing the entry to have
been made by thieves for the purpose of steal
| ing that articl e, they undertook to examine
the premises, Looking in at the door, they
| encountered startling sight. Extended
| upon the tioor was mutulated dead body
| Filled with horror, they ran from the specticle,
communicating the intelligence to every body
/ they met. The news spread like wild fire,
| disturbing the sabbath propriety Of our entire
population. Thoughts of terrible sucide-oi
| direful murder took possession of the public
mind Men, women and children rushed en-
~asse to the place designated We. also,
made our way to the scene of excitement Ar
rived there we found the corpse an apparently
stalwart man streached upon the floor of the
ice-house He was literally skinned-the
cuticlc having been removed from the crown
of his head to the sole of his feet He was
cleft open from the breast bone down to the
lower region of abdomen, through which fiss-
ure the bowels had been abstracted-a large
lump of ice having been placed in their stead
His toes were amputated, as were likewise
his fingers at the first nuckles, leaving
his hands and feet mere stumps 1t was a
slckening specticle to those unaccustomed to
such sights, and we saw many strong men
turn pale while gazing upon the fearful re-
mains. erfz
a single glance was sufficient to convince
every one that the deed was not the work of
lzl
dissection that was the general npression -
Community being satisfied upon this point,
the inquiry Immediately arose, who is the
dead man?' Some thought be was subject
brought from a distance, whilst the majority
were of the opinion that he negro by the
name of Henry Sutherland who had been in
TERED the previous week in the borough bur-
rying ground. The latter belief was strength
ened by facts that his size was about the same
of that individual, and that sen,e curling hair
resembling negro's wool, was found beside
the remains. To place the matter beyond
question, Mr.. ii, Il. Fullerton, accompanied
by a number of our citizens, proceeded to the
grave of Sutherland and began to open it
Alter throwing out a few shovtls full of earth
they came across slipper. Tha. looked as
II the place had been tampered with. Digging
little further, they found its mate. At
length the coffin was reached and discovered
to be broken. Raising the lid the clothes of
the corpse, spoiled and torn, presented them
selves to view; but tho body was gone. The
tomb had been robbed of its contents, and
there was no longer doubt that the dead man
lying in the ice-house was the negro Henry
Sutherland.
During the entire day our public officers
permitted the revolving specticle TO be exposed
to the view of all whom morbid curiosity i'm
PEELED to look upon it We question whether
delicate women and young children, or evvn