Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1857-11-11

| tive in charge Of Quinlan was acquainted
with his man, and letting him go, started in
pursuit OF one of the fugitives. while the
other detective ran after the other.
Both fugitives disappeared In the dark
ness. One Of them was heard scaling
fence and was fired upon by the detective
| in pursuit but without effect Both for the
time succeeded in making their escape.
On returning to the buggy, Quinian had
also disappeared, but was soon overhauled
on the way to his house, which is in that
neighborhood He was conducted TO the
Office of Mr. Pinkerton and there kept until
morning.
In the buggy were found two human bod
les which had been disintei rcd and crowded
into canvass ba g, such as are used by the
, government for mail purposes, and john
Wentworth TO contain potatoes and goldfish
1t is supposed these bags were obtained at
jackson Hall" from the supply which
Wentworth has on hand, and 1t Is not IN
| likely that the ex congressional II ief iur-
nished them to his officer as he did TO his
farmer, with full knowledge Of the purpose
for which they were wanted. one oi the
bodies was OF "a man and the other OF wo-
| man One Of the legs OF the male had oeeh
annotated. and it was identified as The body
OF Il man who WAS Injured some time ago
by the falling of pile OF lumber, ana VINO
died soon after the ampntaton OF MS ilhio.
The female body was recognized by acq uaih-
tances of the deceased. both were delIv-
cred to the coroner yesterday morning who
proceeded to have them re-burled.
Yesterday forenoon, the city undertaken,
in company with one Of the detectives, pro-
| ceeded to the cemetery to examine the
graves which had beer robbed. In the
course Of their search they came upon two
other bodies which had likewise been disin-
TERED, packed in similar canvas bag-, and
concealed among the bushes on the east side
! of the cemetery. these and the two found
in the buggy were all the bodies OF persons
who had been buried i'll the cemetery OH the
previous day.
Qunlan was yesterday morning taken be-
fore Justice Miliken, who required him to
give bail in the sum of $4,000
From some circumstances which we are
| not permitted to mention, the detectives had
reason to suppose that one ofthc persons VINO
escaped was a medical student by the name
% Eli York Accordingly, steps were taken
to elucidatc this point. discreet person
took his place in the buggy, and the horse
was allowed to find his way home. After
trayersing a long and round about route he
entered the livery stable of Messrs. Wright
& Currer, in the North division, where he
! belonged. Ii was there ascertained that
| York had hired the turnout not far from
| I o'clock on the pre-, ious evrning.
The next thing was to find York, and in
this the officers did not have much difficulty.
He was arrested at his boarding house be
tween 8 and O'Clock last ey ching, and TAX
Ell before Justice Milisen, who required him
to give $500 bail for his appearance again
on Monday The third graverobber has
not yet been captured.
We hear that W entworth flew into a tow
erng passion when he heard Of the arrest OF
! Quinan, and swore horribly, damning the
private police and the traitorous aldermen
who had set them on, to his gizzard'5 con
tent. His anger and blasphemy knew nc
bounds.
In connection with this affair we have
learned that about two years ago strange,
from the east died in this city, upon who's,
person papers were found which showet
him to he the owner of considerable proper
", and it was deemed proper to cause inqui
ries to be made In regard to his relatives, i
he had any. Information was sent to thu
chief Of police of an eastern city, where i
was supposed the deceased bel nged, who
soon sent word that a person was on his way
to Chicago who would probably identify The
body, which meantime had been buried IL
the Protestant Cemetery. The person ar
rived here ana proceeded to have the grave
opened. 1t was found empty. Thinking
that possibly they had opened the wron-
grave, they proceeded to remove the eartl
from another. This likewise was empty
Curiosity now led to the opening, one ate
another, of eleven new-made graves in tn
public portion Of the cemetery, and all bu
) one Of them were foundto have been re bbc,
of their tenants. The one which remained
fortunately fer his peaceful repose and satc,,
in his last resting place, had died of eontlu
ent smallpox. The robbers had opened tn
grave, broken open the coffin and placed
J rope around the neck of the corpse for th
purpose of removing it, when the pecnli
! smell discovered to them the cause OF death
The rope and every thing were LETT behind
The person who held the Office Of city seXto
at that time is now one of the most zealou
officers OF John Wentworth.