Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1873-09-16
THE GRAVE OF BEAU HICK-
MAN DESIGNATED.
The. ReSurrectiOniStS EXhUme
His Misunderstanding and
Revolving Spectacle.
from Richmond DisPatch.l

from Richmond Disratcb.l
Poor Beau Hickman. it seems, was
not permitted to rest quietly in his
grave; for the ressurrectIonists, in the
dead of night, visited Potter's field and
eXhumed the body for dissection in
the interests of science, whereat the
Washington papers, which silently
and brutally permitted his burial in
such a place, profess to be highly in
dignanG. We copy from the CiUORi-
eie,. itself a goul and digger in old
grave yards, the following condensed
account Of this dissertation:
Notorious in life, and leaving in
death a name that viii live for years
to come in certain circles, the addi-
tional fact Of the rifling of his grave II
POtter's field and horrible mutilation
of his poor old body will be heralded
throughout the country
"Iopoint moral or adorn a tals'
of mans inhumanity at the earthly
resting place of his felOw-man. But
few would have supposed, in looking
at his attenuated form. mummS-like
expression, and shamtling gait, few
weeks before the settling up of his
worldly accounts, that part of the re-
mains of
BEAU AFTER DEATH
would be spread upon the dissecting
table, his cranial development COM
mented upon, his limbs cut and part
ed, his brain laid bare, portion of
his body TESTED over, perhaps, and
the interests of demonstrated anato-
my" subserved. None would have
dreamed Of such Z beginning after the
end, more especially the kind friends,
mostly business men of the city, who
made up purse after the burial of
Beau in Potter's field, to take his body
from the place and have it decently in
TERED in Congressional Cemetery, 1t
will be remembered that
BEAU's BODY WAS TAKEN
from the hospital after his death and
inferred on Tuesday in Potter's field.
AS stated above, a subscription was ia
ken up among some of the prominent
business men of the city for the pur-
pose of placing his body elsewhere
The necessary permit having been
given by the Health officer, DR.. Z. Il.
Keene, Mr.. Anthony Buchly, the
well known undertaken, with an as
sistant, called at the washington Asy-
lum yesterday afternoon, at $50
O'clock. and showing Intendent Hodg-
son his authority, was directed to the
grave of Beau, and two of the hands at
the asylum sent along with the under
taker to assist in exhuming the body.
About the same time that Beams body
reached POtter's field on Tuesday the
body of a cOlored man was brought,
and side by side they were buried
Upon the arrival Of the undertaken at
the grave, the party commenced the
digging, but soon discovered that the
grave had been tempered with, and
before reaching the casket his grave
clothes were thrown up with the dirt
and upon reaching the coffin
A HORRIBLE SIGHT
was revealed. 1t had been broken in
to, and nothing left save the trunk o.
a body with the arms taken out at thtf
sockets, the legs cut and unjointed at
the hips, and the head severed from
the body. The skin of the face APP
peared to have been cut down the CEN
ter, and then, in a scalpiDg-like pro-
cess, taken completely from the skull
and thrown in the coffin with the hOr-
rible-Iooking trunk. The lungs and
vital parts of the body were taken out
and made away with, except the heart
which was found in the bushes near
by. The collOred man upon reaching
Ike coffin and revealing the s;ckening
sight exclaimed,
"GooD GOD, THE DOCTORS HAVE BEEN
HERE!"
What remained of poor Beau's body
was gathered together and placed in
i NEW CpFFIN,
and taken to the public vault in the
Cemetery, from whence
they VIII be removed in n few days to
his final resting place on earth. In
that silent city Of the dead his coffin
will rest undlstGrbed.