Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-11-10
The Siamese Twins 0utdOne-Extra0r.
dinaru A,raaE of NnIura.


Correspondence Of tie Cincinnati. Commercial.
Delaware, Ohio, Oct. 17.-Our COM
munity is much excited over a freak of ma
ture in'the production of double baby.
The Siamese Twins are completely over
shadowed by this infant wonder. There
is living in Peru township, Morrow coun-
ty. family named Finley. Up to last
Wednesday morning it consisted OF MIR.
Joseph Finley, his wife Mary, and two
children, little girls, aged and 5 years.
On that morning Mrs. Finley was confined
and gave birth to twins, joined together
in a manner unknown to the books. When
the gossips brought the news of the event
to our city, and gave descriptions of the
child, or rather children, it was laughed
at by the professional and pronounced
q good hoax. A gentleman living
in the vicinity of the Finley home called
on one Of our physicians and assured him
that there was no exaggeration in the de-
scription, as he had seen the wonder. Con-
vinced that there was something IN the
case, \ party of gentlemen, consisting OF
Drs. j. A. Little and 7. B. Williams, W. 0.
Seamens, Professor of Natural History and
Chemistry in the Ohio Wesleyan University,
and S. X. Donavan, ON tae 10th inst, WIS.,
tied the family. Before reaching the Fin
ley farm the party called on DR.. A. z.
Westbrook, of Ashley, who had been called
to attend The mother, and learned from him
that half had not been told. DIR. West
brook accompanied the party. An hours
drive brought them TO the place.
On going to the gate leading to the yard.
q written notice was discovered announc-
ing that visitors would not be admitted.
This did not deter the party. They i'm
mediately entered the yard, aud on reach
ing the front door of the dwelling. they
were met by Mr.. Finley (the father) and
gentleman who appeared to be acting as
his aide-de camp, who informed the party
that the} could be admitted to see the
show on the payment of twent-ive cents
each. The Professor promptly forked over,
and the party stepped In. In few min
utes the nurse made her appearance with
the wonder A double child was exhibit
ed. Two perfectly formed heads, one on
either side of the spinal column.
To give clear idea of it, just suppose
that you sevsr the bodies of two men at
the lower part of the abdomen and then
put the two upper parts together, and you
have the trunk of this child. At the in
stance of Drs. Williams and Little, the
clothing was taken from it, and q critical
examination was made, so far as could be
without doing injury. From the occiput
Of one child to the occiput of the other,
there is continuous spine, in q directline
Upon one side, and directly in the center
of the trunk, were perfectly developed
hips. thighs, legs and feet They are in
nice proportion to the body of either child
On the opposite side there is one large.
imperfectly formed leg. presenting the ap-
pearance of the consolidation of two legs.
There are eight toes on this limb, two OF
which have the appearance of great toes,
being much larger than the others. Each
has well-formed head, good features,
good chest, good arms and hands, lung,
heart, liver and stomach. Between the
perfectly formed limbs, and properly sit
uate6, are the anus and sexual organ in
common. The lower portion of the bow
els, the bladder, and perhaps the kidneys.
are in common. All the other organs are
separate.
There was bu. one umbilical cord and
one placenta. The length of the body is
twenty inches, and the umbilicus is GEN.
trail in the abdomen, and equi-distant from
each head. It nurses well at both ends,
anu, Ssel first exhibited IN the party. ore
child vas asleep aud the other crying.
Wuie cue poyslcltnS were IndkluS tucH
examination, both cried, but, a few mo-
ments after. the one which was crying first
went to sleep, while the othsr remained
awake. When either head would cry, the
perfect leg which was nearest the head
kicked and drew up, while the leg nearest
the other head remained quiet When
either cried, the toes on the imperfect foot
would move. but the limb remained sta
tionary. Both heads nurse well, and the
child, or rather children, are in excellent
health. The physicians could see no rea-
son why it, or they, should not live. The
mother is doi'c. we'll.
Mr.. Finley /, alive to the importance and
value of this addition to his family. He is
now charging gate money, and he in
formed the writer that he had already en-
tered into an article of agreement with a
gentleman for the sale of the body, if it
should die. Price fixed is 500 Nego-
tiations are in progress for the exhibition
if it lives. He is convinced that there is
money in il, dead or alive. bat thinks there
is most in the latter condition. He says
that he is conscious of the fact that he sis
an unarmed man, but has sense enough
not to be fooled out of it. +"