Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-11-10
LOCAL NEWS,
a s,sterfous Body -,natehinx case.
TWO DEAD coLoRsD w.NKSrxAP5x.

This morriny, sNout 80 O'Clock. rvn
coioTed men appeared VITA = push-ca-t a. N-s
Jersey avenue, near the Baltimore add ohio
rs'hosd depcf, and turning iuro Inc,ana Avenue
stopped A. the door Of Adams express dspot
defe they with some labor rem nsvsd from the
pu-t-cart ptne box shout feet long, % vide
ann deep. ard deposited n tn tue 4 pot
making apI licafiOu 70 fhn clerk ~ ~ ra n sar+
70 the place marked. The box was taken IN
cbarge by the clerk and the men depsrta5, The
attention OF Officer McHeury haf, however
oesn attrscfed to the hoy. aud after the men
mao leii, = basty examination OF Il was male
wheR u was found that sawdgst and a few
sfetfs OF brown paper hat been n sed as parlting
ior the contents. and removing some of the
packing The arm Of what appeared 20 be a col
ored girl, or yonug woman. still timber and
warn. was revealed The address on the HOY
= N INK and rather csrelessy written and is
as iolioWs: with care, VIM. Aulenreith, Gin
cinnst, Ohio, No. - West 18th street. p. n. To-
Lieutenant Kelly WAS immediatel informed OF
the anar and sent for Coroner Patterson and
Crncer McHenry, having in a very little time
obtained q clue 20 the parties he with oAscer
Atkinson, started on 10 arrest them.
A RoRRIBLB sIGHT.
ABOUT II O'Clock the box was removed n the
tth precinct station house II lent John y Eai
tey), corner OF LIST and r Streets where II was
opened in presence of Coroner Patterson. when
vas revealed most horrible sight the dead
bodies Of two cslored women doubled ana
twisted up in common pine box and hacked
WI WIN straw. The box is about feet long, and
IL inches deep, and one side is numbered ssa0',
IN red paint, with the name OF 0H AAler ,,
shortly after the arrival OF the Coroner az the
staIlon house, Major Richards Superintendent
anann' ol,cS' IN company with Detective Miller,
pp sppeared on the scene, and viewed the bodies
both OF which were s,srk naked, save a clout
OF Whlte cotton about the lower exfrem ties A
nc consoltatlon ensued, when the Major and
me Coroner retired, 10 meet at ? O'clock n m.
mysterious case. ~
The general impression is that the two sab
IecIs, having every appearance Of health be-
TORE death, were about being shpped 70 a
medlcsl college ia Cincinnati for dissection
,AkkksT OF ALLEGED BODY sNATCHgRs.
III be coroner, Dr. Patterson, and his assistant
W Hartlgsn, called at the station house about
II O'Clock, and examined IN bodies thoroughly
! ron consultation afterwards they came 70 tue
concluslon that an inquest was unnecessary
ooth the deceased having died from natural
eauses-one from cancer OF the breast and the
other OF consumption and pneumonia. The
u II ascertained that they were Inmates
OF the Freedmap's Hosnitai, and that
tLeS were inferred yesterday At the Washing
t9h poorhouse. An effort is TO be made by DR.
keene to ascertain who are the friends of the
deceased, and Lieut.. Kelly sent out Off GERS 10
arrest The coiored man who had the hand-cart.
through the efforts of officers McHenry and
AtchisOn arrests we're soon made OF G. a Chris
nan, tthe weit-knOwn resurrectionistD besides
Percy and Maud Brown, who were recently
discharged nom jail, where they have been
serving out term for burning the body OF A
child at their place on 18th street qfter having
produced an abortion on the mother. These
tNAoono nOAS dtTCcteu a low rancho near the
Lincoln hospital, and in the shapty was fonnd
large wardrobe OF grave clothes and Shroads
Ehich had evidently been stripped from dead
ocdles. Inc prisoners are sli held At the sta
ton-bcuse for hearing to-mOrrog in NE
Police Court.
OUTSIDE EXCITEMENT.
Apont the station-houss motley crowd had
assembled, speculating upon the probabjIitv. IL
not certainty, OF ghastly double murder but
When lt was ssccrtained that there was no
mutation OF the bodies, the multitude thinned
out AT O'Clock, it having been Whispered
around rather loudly that the coroner would
investigate, several hundred persons, mostly
temsie colored pecp!e blocked up the sidewalks
aid street neais he station house, esger TO gsi.3
ADMISSION to the de room; but the limited ac-
commonation" precluded the entrance of the
lnbohg, whertupcn "speculatiOns" were IN
order, foremost among which was one that the
hooulum man" was arrested, and would he
Kept In durance vile until he disgorgei his iii.
gained fortune The bodies were still at toe
station house at 3 O'Clock aud the eX,itglnsnt
was unsbated.