The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-05-19
Sells.

the residence of T.. Gill, near this city.
The corpse is said to belong to Il medi-
cal student, but the coroner fears there
is something crooked abont the affair
Sandusky city Ttlegrdm.
And thereby hangs "a tale" Mr.. Gill
lives several miles from sandusky city,
ana his son is student of medicine.
Recently he procured n Subject" in
Cincinnati and had it shipped to his
home, where the bones were placed in
barrel of lime water. Some one, poking
around, saw the subject" and suppos
ing IL murder had been committed, and
an effort made to hide the body, report
ed the ''faets, which spread. In San
dusky city the details were horrible, and
the Mayor, Marshal, Coroner and
physician set ont for the seat of war,
armed with the proper implements of
their offices. Arrived there, the re-
mains were found, as described, and the
Coroner was aDont to call jury to i'll
vestigate, when Mr. Gill explained how
the bones came upon his premises. The
word sold was written all over the
countenances of that SanduakyCity dele
CATION, and they returned home in the
dusk of eventide, and sought the Sc
clusion of their homes without report
ing to the public generally the result of
their investigations.
Tho (nrfn.r
the matter over, and wasn't axactIy sat
isfied with matters. The result was. as
we leard from the NorwaIk Chronicle,
that the following correspondence took
place;
SANDUsKY, o., May 10th.
Or. w. T.. GILL:
Mr:-Iour lines are received 1t will
be to your benefit to furnish me with
sworn statement from the party that
those ''honcs" were sod to you by such
a person of Cincinnati. and for what
purpose. 1Ours truly,
Louis TRAUB,
Coroner.
NORwALK. o., May 11th.
In matter of those GOReS:
Louis Traub, Esq, Coroner OF Erie
Co, Ohio,
quill DOWN YOUR VESTr
w. 4. GILL.
The above incident recalls one less
than year old, IA which the Mayor,
Marshal, Coroner, et al, OF Norwalk
were called upon to perform ia like
manner. y youth, whose nature was
unregenerate, had been desecrating the
Sabbath, on the borders of Erie county.
by hunting on ;Iic banks of Huron river
All ut once L.; si,'i aghast and horror
stricken. iiefog, him lay quantity of
clothing Grenclicd in human gore, and
jnst within the river, with its head rest
ing upon the shoe. hay CHASTITY corpse.
Terror SEIZED him, aIid "A naturally vivid
fancy added TO his CONSERVATION. Con
science, too, had awakened within him
for his Sabbath desecration, and lie fled
az men flee when seized with panic. He
stopped not until lie reached the village
the Mayor, who heard hiIa patiently.
The locality described was, however,
without his bailiwiek, and so he dis
patched a messenger to Norwalk with
the news. As the hour was then late,
proceedings were deferred until the NOR
row, and then the delegation that left
Norwalk had an air of business secrecy
about it that alarmed the tinid and pro-
voked the curious But the delegation
neither found the body of the murdered
man nor his raiInent, though they jour
neyed 10 Milan by way of the river, and
sought the boy, and interviewed the
Mayor, and stepped into medicine
shop, and swallowed sundFy eoneoctions
suitable to such occasions; and the mys
terry remains unexplained till this day.
But that boy Jackson has been a stand
ing seapegoat for the ''Bear Clubs sins
ever since The Norwalk boys swal-
lowed the sell with the connections re-
ferred TO, and have remained aniabie
ever since.