Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-05-16

HORRIBLE DIsCLOsUREs-DEAD BODIES ExnUMED
AND BuRSED.-We learn that great excitement has
prevailed in the neighboring village of Concord
during The past week, caused bv the discovery that
several children who died recently, had been dis
inferred and their bodies removed
There are hundred rumors in circulation about
the affair. After comparing the conflicting stories
together we make out the following statement of
the CASE
\ quick doetor known by the name of Nucent,
applied to n to assist him in taking up a child
that had been buried few days before. The man
made the request known, and intimated that two lit
tie girls daughters of very respectable gentleman
residing in the vicinity, had been removed from their
graves by this man Nugcnt for the purpose of OK.
tracing medicinal properties from their flesh and
bones. To ascertain the truth Of the rumor the "a
Their had the graves re-opened, and found the cot.
fins and bodies missing Of course this created
deep sensation, and we are informed that it was de-
termined to inflict summary punishment upon Nu-
gent but visiting his house he was found very
sick and in dying condition. One report says that
he took poison after learning that his operations
were known to the public-and another, that he
died from disease contracted from frequent han.
ding Of dccomposed bodies.
Nugent died on Wednesday last. He made
statement before death, to the effect that he exhnm
ed about sixteen dead bodies in Concord and else
where and after using them (for making medicine)
he burned the flesh, collins and everything, to pre-
vent detection. His ash pile was examined and
teeth and bones found therein.
His theory appears to have been that medicine
could be made by boiling the liver of human be-
ing, that would cure liver complaint; and so with
regard to other diseases. We learn that Nugcnt
was from Forsyth county, and had been living in
Concord about two years He once lived in this
town we are informed, engaged in selling peppermint
end cinnamon drops. Before he died he gave the
names of three or four Of his accomplices Of
hon. white man named Bogus, was arrested in
MS place last week and committed to Jail.
What the fellow did with the medicine he has
cen making, knows. We heard some one
" he had agencies in Salisbury and Goldsboro',
here one or more OF his accomplices reside. Those
ersons who are in the habit of buying and swal-
4 wing every kind of nostrum offered to them for
re cure of diseases internally and externally, will
AXE hirt from the above. Char. Dem
Mr. Thadeus p Windley of jackson, an occasion.
visitor here, died few days since. With those
our citizens who formed his acquaintance during
is sojourn among us he was general favorite be.
,ggifted with social qualities, and that urbanity
address that wins the esteem of all who come
thin their influence. We saw him some months
nee. as he was returning home from vain pursuit
health" weary and pale and sad /" and noted that
assumption was drying up the fountains of life with
him. The work is done, and Mt the early age Of
twenty-five he has fallen victim to the grim tyrant
lat considers not the talents or the years Of his
.ctims. Gallatin (Niss.) Augus