The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-10-22
RESURRECTIONISTS AT WORK.
Five Bodies Found in Dissecfing
Room and Thirty-nine Medical stu
dents Taken into Custody.

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[From the Buffalo (N. " Express.l
On Wednesday morning last the sexton
who has charge of the Holy Cross Gene
terry, at Limestone Hill, noticed that a
newly-made grave had been disturbed
during the night, and an examination
found it to be that of the wife of Richard
j. Carey, who had been buried the day
before. The foot-board to the grave was
not as il had been set, and there were lndl-
cations that some persons had been Dig
ging there. The sexton at once Informed
the Rev. Father Hines, who has charge OF
the reformatorv and orphanage, and who
is pastor of st. Patrick's Church, who, on
hearing the seXton's statement, directed
him to Investigate thoroughly and see
what had been done. The sexton, there
fore, opened the grave and found that the
body OF Mrs. Carey had been removed. Ii
appears that during the night the grave
had been opened and the body taken from
the coffin and carried away. the grave at
terward being filled, with the coffin itsef
undisturbed. The work of refilling the
grave had been hastily done, and it SEEM
ed likely that the persons doing it had
been frightened away before completing it
as thoroughly as they otherwise would.
On hearing this Father Hines informed the
husband of the deceased, Mr.. Richard j..
Carey, on Elk street, in the Thirteenth
Ward. Mr.. Carey was greatly incensed on
hearing the facts, and at once did what he
could to lead to the discovery of the body.
During Wednesday afternoon he called at
the police station, and gave Information
concerning the matter to the officers. He
then offered reward of 500 for the dis
covery of the body and detection of the
NO
which the body could be traced, and yes
terday it was decided to get out a warrant
to search the Buffalo Medical College, as
the only place in this vicinity that could
have any purpose to lead them to take
body. Accordingly, about O'Clock yes
terday, officers Bonnell, Boyle, and one
or two others, accompanied by Mr.. Carey
and relatives, went to the college, and on
entering the dissecting r Dom found large
number of students at work with five
corpses before them. One of these
Mr.. Carey and other members of the
family identified as that of Mrs.
Carey. The officers therefore arrested all
the students present in the room, and
also the ianitor, John Ferguson, and they
were taken to police station No. l and ar
raigned before Justice Nash, but as they
gave no information as to where they OBJ
tanned the bodies, they were permitted to
depart, with the understanding that they
would appear when called for. Mrs.
Carey, the deceased, was a woman about
40 wears old, the wife of Richard j. Carey,
who lives in the Thirteenth Ward, is a
man of some means, a grocery keeper, and
has been Justice of the Peace, Mrs. Ca
rey had been ill for more than year with
uterine cancer, IAN unusual disease, .and it
has been claimed that medical men were
desirous of examining the body on that
account, but the claim is pronounced false
by the doctors themselves. Mrs. Carey's
death occurred on Saturday, and she was
buried Tuesday. AS to the identity of the
corpse found at the college, there seems
to be some dispute. Mr.. Carey and the
other members of the family positively as
sert that the corpse is that of his deceased
wife, and Mr.. Timothy Crowley, the un-
dertaker who buried Mrs. Carey, bears
out the statement. On the other hand the
ianitor of the college, Mr.. Ferguson,
states that no corpse has been received
since the latter part of September, and
that he can prove by witnesses that the
body claimed to be that of Mrs. Carey
was in the college before Mrs. c. was
buried. 1t appears also that the work of
dissection had gone far enough to make
identification very difficult. The impOr-
tance of discovering the body will readily
be understood. The outrage is one that
ought not to be tolerated. We under
stand that Mr.. Carey will offer reward
for the conviction of the robbers, and the
law provides penalty for their punish
ment of Imprisonment in the State prison
not exceeding five years, or in the county
Jail not exceeding one year, or fine OF
$500, or both such fine and imprison-
ment. Persons receiving stolen body
are subject on conviction, to the same
punishment.
In case the identity of this body at the
college cannot be established, however, it
will not be very difficult to trace it, cases
sometimes occurring of bodies taken from
grave to distant city. Much interest
will of course be felt in the developments,
and meanwhile the college where the par
TALLY identified body still is is guarded by
police.