Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-06-07
An Outrage on the Dead.
TIE BODY OF A SON OF PRESIDENT
HARRISON FOUND IN DIS
SECTING ROOM.

TIE BODY OF A SON OF PRESIDENT
HARRISON FOUND IN A DIS
sECTING ROOM.
There is intense excitement in Cincin-
natl over the finding OF the body OF Hon,
John Scott Harrison, son Of ex-PreSident
Harrison, 10 medical college in that city.
He died Suddenly Saturday night or Sun
day morning and the funeral took place
Tuesday, the body being inferred in the
family burying ground at North Bends
When preparing the grave it WAS found
that the grave of August Devins, who
died ten days ago, had been despoiled
Devins was friend of the Harris MS,
and the discovery caused them to be especi-
ally careful in preparing the grave of Jno.
tScott Harrison. 1t was strongly walled
up, the body, in a metallic casket, placed
in, and stone as heavy as sixteen men
could handle. put on it. The funeral over.
Carter Har iScn, a son OF the deceased, and
Geo. Eston. grandson, came to Cincin-
natl to search for the body of their friend
Devins. Guided by clue given by an
item in the morning papers they went to
the Ohio Medical College md in the dis
secting-room, a rope being drawn from the
chute, body was found attached to it.
Mr.. Harrison said: s'Ths is not my friend;
he was much wasted with consumption,
while this is a stout man." Col. Smell Ba-
ker, chief of police who was with him,
suggested that he take good look. A
cloth over the face, the only covering
about the body, was removed, when Car
ter Harrison trembled and turned pale,
saying "Great God it's father" The
,Ot late I,,% >;,Ix1
were cut Off and the jugular vein cut and
blood let out. The body was taken to an
undertakers and prepared for reburial.
The discovery of the loss Of the body was
made Wednesday morning, and friends
came to Cincinnati to find the body already
recovered. The big stone had been remuv.
ed and the guard placed to watch the grave
is nowhere to be found.
DR.. Bartholow, dean of the Medical
College of Ohio, published card in the
Cincinnati papers Friday morning, stat
ing that the members OF the faculty were
entirely ignorant of the robbery of the
grave of the late John Scott Harrison. In
conclusion he said:
''In the search for motives which deter
mined the stealing of Mr. Harrison's body,
it IS alleged that the doctors had wish to
ascertain the cause of death, because it
had been sudden. 1t is scarcely necessary
to Say that the eXplanatian already given
is the true one-tlat a resurrectionist,
unknown to us, who was probably short Of
funds. took this means to replenish his ex-
chequer."
On Friday afternoon General Benjamin
Harrison published card accusing the
faculty with shielding the guilty from JUS
tice, and saying that it is silly to say that
the resurrectionist is unknown. His card
closes as follows:
Your janitor denied that it laid upon
your tables, but the clean incison into the
carotid artery, the thread with which it
was.ligatured, The injected veins; prove
h i'm d liar. Who made.that incision and
injected that body, gentlemen of the fac
ulty ? The surgeons who examined his
work say he was no bungler. While he lay
upon your table, the long white beard,
which the hands of infant grandchildren
had often stroked in love, was rudely
saorn from his face. Have you so little
care of your college that an unseen and
unknown ma may do.all this !? Who
took him from that table and hung him by
he neck in that pit Was it to hide it
from friends, or to pass his body to your
pickling-vats for fall use? For a reliable
Informant states that an order had gone
out to gather bodies against your winter
term"
Gen. Harrison was the republican can
didate for Governor of Indiana, against
blue Jeans'' Williams.