New-York daily tribune., 1858-03-22
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Tee Jury thes examined The can o. oas Of tA'
ssoks ant found n 10 b tast OF Dr. De 7'' vh' kea
aa Office 90 tie corner Ct Court asi BA tc s|sets
The iIquest vts the. c,curnA uatd yestesd.. aes
ing. when
Dr.. Csupber. Houhs -SIrg~oo C Bel,.yue Hessi.N .
was examined lie stated thai be " % aoqusaated vita
d. Bauer, but knew of no sutec toisg given 10 Ia
at any time knew of 10 dead body being t.kes from
the Hospital ard given TO Dr. Bauer q any tody .ss
since the Act Of April, 1855, called the "AB>tomy
Bill, rcquistors hsd been made for bodies b. ps2,i.
cians or the purpose Of dissection toe person sp
plying for them required to treat the body the lev
directs, with regard 70 it's nerment the surgeons o.
tie Hospital have nothing TO do With these bodes}as
that is the wardeps special charge; i. the deceased
he. no friends, the remains are disposed OF &c .he
warden fit; do not know what the Law q 1855 re-
quires but have understood that when the body was
no longer required for scientific purposes it shoud be
decenty inferred, and not thrown about careessy
the name of the warden s Timothy Daley physicians
in the Hospital have control over the body after 1t
is removed from the ward in which the patient dies;
it il then removed to the Dead-Iouse, and afterward
disposed of as the warden Directs there Is record
physicians who take the bodies for dissection when
they are 70 disposed Of
Louis Bauer, NJ. d., was examined without oath,
and stated that he Of the surgeons of the Long
Island Hospital at No. l45 Court street. He had long
been desrous of procuring the bodies Of persons who
had died in the public institutions, for the purpose OF
dissection and scientific experiments. He requested
medical friend to procure one of those bodies, AID
about fourteen days since furnished with sub
iect Another medical man and student in witness's
office several times afterward performed various sargi
cal operations ON the body. When tie warm weather
commenced it was msde necessary to remove The re-
mains and witness directed one Of his assistants and
student to take the box containing the remains to q
spot a. az possible TO Greenwood Cemetery and
there inter them decently. Witness was prevented by
business from attending to The execution Of his orders
and did not know but what they had beeS coupled
with strictly. On Saturday morning he was informed
that instead OF complying with his instructions they
had disposed of the remains in the manner they
found, supposing that the flow of the tide would carry
them out to sea; that they had taken the remains
out of the box in order TO transport them the more
readily. lie regretted very much thes the affair had
occurred. When the body was received at his Office
it bore evidences Of having been objected to post
morem examination, and the lungs were much con-
gested, showing that the patient had died from disease
of the lungs. Witness declined to disclose the name
of the person who furnished the body those of his
assistants as he considered himself the only response
bic party, and was willing to suffer tho penalty Of his
acts. The body was removed from his office about
or g O'Clock on Friday night.
DIR. John Byrae, Physician tothe Long leland College
Hospital, was also examined without oath. The body
was procured from DR.. Johnson residing in Middagh
street; saw the body the day after it was brcughtt 70
the hospital in Brooklyn, and it bore evidence Of
post mortem examination previous to being taken to
our Hospital.
Dr. johnson stated that he procured the body from
Bellevue Hospital in NewYork under provisions Of the
Anatomy bill Dr. johnson, having been for some inc
connected with the Hospital at Bellevue, was selected
o procure the body. The body had never beer
patient in our Hospital. Witness corroborated the
statement of DR.. Bauer as to the operations on the
body.
DR.. Bepno Gabriel assistant to Dr.. Bauer, likewise
testified without oath that he knew Of the body being
IN the dissecting room Of the Long Island College
IIospital for some two weeks, during which time he
assisted in making several surgical operations on the
body. DR.. Bauer told witness Friday to bury the
body in the box which contained it at place near
the Greenwood Cemetery. The Doctor being engaged
in the evening, witness did not have an opportunity to
ask further instructions and the box being too heavy
to lift into the wagon, be put the body into three
sacks and putting the sacks into the wagon, started
of to dispose Of them. While he engaged in put
ting the bags into the wagon he became alarmed
from the fact that some young men observed him.
Witness and student of DIR. Bauer then got into the
wagon, and drove down to Gowanus, and, when near
the place where the sacks found, threw them as
they supposed far enough into the water To give them
a chance to float out with the tide and sink. They
took no implements with them with which to dig
grave.
The inquest was then adjourned until O'Clock to-
day. for the purpose of examining Dr. johnson and the
steward of the Hospital at Bellevue.
The Act to Promote Medical Science, passed
April 1854 imposes penalty of from So to $50 tor
Del eglecting to inter the remains of human body N
some public cemetery.
DESCENT UPON 4 GAMBLING HE'LL.