The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-06-21
HORRIBLE.
The search for Devine's Body In the Ned
ical College at Ann Arbor Reveals n
Terrible Sight.

ical College at Ann Arbor Reveals
Terrible Sight.
[Ann Arbor (Mich) Cor. Cincinnati Rnquirer.l
Col. Snelbaker arrived here tonight
in search of the body of Young Devine
whose disappearance led to the discovery
of the body of Scott Harrison. Gaining
admission to the medical college, the
| ianitor went to three large watts, full Of
dead bodies floating in brine, and the
inspection began.
First he hurled from their places huge
rocks which had been placed above &c
weigh down and keep in place the bod
les. Then, with barred arms, and an ex-
preston of fiendish satisfaction, he be-
gan reaching down into the watts in search
of the bodies. AS the weights were re-
moved they foated to the surface, and
were seen to be closely packed in tierces
in the watts, like 80 many slaughtered
hogs packed for market.
First, next to tine front, was the body
of young and handsome woman of
about %, with long, golden hair, matted
and discolored by the filthy brine into
which the body had been rudely thrown.
The face was one of great beauty, and,
though discolored by the process, still
showed that it was the face of one who in
life had known no want, and upon which
the cares of life had left no traces.
Alongside of it, naked, as was the first,
lay the body of large negro, in an adj
vanced state of decomposition. the black
skin in large clots slipping from its
place, and revealing the discolored flesh.
AS the body foated to the surface with
that of the woman the short, kinky wool
was falling from the head and floating in
the water, mingled with the golden tress-
es of the woman at his side.
Next in order beyond, and pressing
against the body of the negro, was that
OF an old man, his feet incased in rough,
filthy wooden socks, the body again
naked, the eyes sunk deep in the sock
cts, the mouth opened and filled with
the liquid in which itfoated, the features
distorted and discolored beyond recog-
nitisn, and the shaggy, gray whiskers
were loosening their hold and slipping
from the face.
AS old Negley made dive at the
body, preparatory to hauling it out of
the vat, aided by stalwart student,
whom he had pressed into the service,
the old man prepared to remove the
bodies from the vat, in order that we
might see whether or not those for whom
we searched were there. Selling the
first roughly by the head and shoulders,
his assistant grasping the feet, the body
was lifted to the edge of the vat, and,
without word of coution or show of
tenderness, or even the consideration
one would use toward dead animal, it
was tumbled rudely to the stone floor,
the beautiful head, which had been pill
lowed on some manly bosom, striking
hard upon the stone floor, the shapely
limbs and well-rounded form thrown
prone upon the cellar filth and bones,
and the golden, streaming hair, soddeu
with the filth of the vat, falling as veil
upon and over the body, hiding it and
the face from its shame.
He followed with another and another,
until within few minutes there lay up
on the filthy stone floor, mingled with
the bones and fragments OF the apart
ment, pile of about twenty CHASTITY
corpses, of all sizes and colors, and all
ages and conditions; the old, the young,
the emaciated, the well-rounded figure,
the shapen and misshapen, black and
white, pauper and honored citizen alike,
in one promiscuous heap.
For perhaps an hour longer this fiend-
ish, sickening work went on, until the watts
were emptied, and no less than forty
naked corpses lay in heaps upon the
floor, of all ages, sexes, and nationali-
ties, thrown promiscuously together,
without the least order or attempt at or
der. sickening mass of human corrup-
ton. The skin slipping from the limbs
and bodies where they had been rough
ly handled, the hair falling from the
heads, or saturated with brine, dripping
it's filth upon the bodies below. The
dead, distorted, meaningless faces look
ing out through the dim, CHASTITY lamp
light in all forms and in all terrible po-
sitions of countenance on the fends who
were disporting with their sacred flesh.
Then the work of inspection began.
Col. Snelbaker carefully inspected all
the bodies which bore resemblance to
the dead for whom he sought, and sue
ceeded, he thinks, in identifying several
of them. Young Devins' body he has a
very accurate description of, and has
found one which so closely corresponds
with it that there seems to be little
doubt, from the description, that it is
the one long sought for.