The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-06-22
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KEsURRECTIONIsIs.

KE>URRECTIONIs
How Their shocking Trade Is Piled
The ConeCaImenI Of Cndsvers-
Experienced at Ann Arbor.
From Last Evenings Detroit News.
The detectives say they can easily dis
tingush the worK of a occasional
body -Snatcher from that OF 8 novice.
NEW MAN, OR AN APPRENTICE,
will, at first, work twice rs hard as nee
esssry. The frs. few graves he robS ne
takes the trouble OF entirely opening.
The professional merely digs a small
hole down to the head OF the coffin, at an
angle OF 20 degrees or more. The en-
bryo ghoul opens the whole top OF the
coffin, and sometimes takes the trouble To
upscrew the lid aud TO carefully screw 1t
down agsis! The professional, when he
digs down to the head Of the coffin, takes
large suger and bores number OF
holes close together across the coffin
lid, about eighteen inches from the top.
Then he knocks in the lid, and ties
n rope around the neck of the body, and
with
a FEW DEXTERoUs IULLs JERKS IT
OUT
Of its resting place and land: it on top OF
the ground. Tie clothes are torn ct and
placed back in the empty coffin, aSd the
hole covered up.
The body snatchers seldom or never
steai the grave clothes. He deserves no
praise for his forbearsnce. 1t Is too risky.
The chances of getting caught are too
great One instance is known where u
resurrectiOnist dressed up in the clothes
taken from body he had stolen, and
was detected wearing them ia the house
OF God. The stolen body WAS that OF a
brother of the preacher, and when the
latter recognized the GARNER IS he tainted
dead away, supposiDg the same
HIS BROTHERS. GHOST.
After the body is taken from the coffin
and the clothes removed, 1t is wrapped in
a coarse bag or sack, and tum6led into n
conveyance which Is always IN waiting.
If the cadsver is intended for distant
generally an clubhouse or barn, where 1t Is
crsmmed INTO box or barrel, and saw
dust or straw packed around II. Saw
dust is preferred because 1t absorbs the
odoriferOus fluid that might otherwise
leak out and excite suspicion. The "stlit
is seldom shipped from the town or VII
LACE where 1t was stolen. A neighbOrlng
place is generally selected as shipping
point The bulk of material received q.
Ann Arbor last winter was
BILLED AS STURGEON
The body-anatchers IN the employment
of the Michigan University were last
winter instructed not TO send directly to
Ann Arbor, rs the tracing Of stolen
"sLiffs" there WAS becoming altogether to
frequent. So Ypsilan.i and other places
along the Michigan Centrsi road were
used as receiving points. The express
agents at those places had instructions to
forward anything addressed to certain
fictitious persons-a firm name generally
bonn Chosen-tO Ann Arbor, where the
express agent, who was posted, lmme-
diately csrted them to the medical col
lege. An express agent told The Nea'S
reporter that while the bodies were really
shipped to different places, they were,
BY VIRTUE OF AN UNDERSTANDING
between the express agents and the Uni
versity, sent directly 10 Ann Arbor, but
were re-blled from the nominal receiv-
ing points rs though they had actually
been taken of the train there. The
names 70 whom the cadsvers are for
wsrded are Entirely fictitious, and the
the name is varied at pleasure. The last
shipment was made to "Quimby " CO.,
and it is said that one Of the bodies
wss that of Augustus Devin, OF North
Bend, Ohio.
Wh,n Il stolen body is traced to the
Medical College, and there is great dan
ger Of its being found, it is packet up and
expressed to some distant institution, and
there, if possible secreted or got rid Of.
This was the case with Devln, whose
body was first traced 10 Miami College,
Cincinnati, where it was njected, and at
terwsrd sent to Ann Arbor, where 1t was
found. The medical schools all have an
understanding; they are in the ring to-
gother, and always stand ready to help
one another out of bad scrape.
SAD AND FEARFUL STORIES
are told OF the search for the stolen dead
stories which chill the blood and cause