, 1880-09-01
UNDERTAKED ELTON.
His Arrest for Having Dead Bodies
on His Premises.
Ills Explanation ns to How They
Came to 10 There.

There wns every prospect yesterday morn"
Ing TINT another sensation had been I'LL.
cnrthed. A rllinor escaped from the Central
Station that llcl,d III tic shape Of MI utstlcr-
takGr Ind capped tho climax Of tho sttc-
ccssion of horrors lately filling tic columns
Of tho city papers, and Instantly tho reporters
Of tic city were let loose upon tho SCENT.
TILE TRIBUNE en,Issnry followed it up With
Tho following result: 1t Rce,ns Tint y0t,l1g
man ilNmc,l II. ]. Dernhartlt, living Mt No 81
Randolph street, Ind reported Mt Central
Station that thcrc were
FouH DEAD nop1Es
lying In tho rear Of Nos. 53 and 81 Third nv
cnuc, premises useti as n stablo by George
Elton, undertaken. Officers Na.tIgan and
vcstiEato, and, according ia thor stories,
they found two Rna1rbuxcs III tho wnsll-ro0l,i
OF tito barn behind so1t,p lumber, md sltie
under soll,c wood In ono OF the stalls, Tho
t!lrce boxes contained the. bodies OF - four
chll'trcn Of different agos In lndly-lcconl-
posed stnte." They were brought To the std-
tIon and from thero removed to tho Atorg,te,
and tho Health Department WIS IlOtiliet.
atlt ELTON WAS ARRESTED
NM! taken to Tie Ar1aory. mud three sena1aHtte
Gf tllc city ordtnanees, which prohibits the
tltpOSlting OF body within the city limits,
under a penalty. ct fins ot, 500, were pre-
iorretl agsllst l lin; Furnishing 6ail tn TIC
was released until this morning, when lie Is
required to be In tho Police CURT for hcar-
\ tribune reporter called .!pon him in
the afternoon. md l,g enluhatlca'lyexpresscd
wnrrnntnblo Intrusion npon liis premises.
"Ho,t Ind tho bodies, then, III your sta
blo?' the rcpprter asked.
"Of course had, autl II I'd caught tho Of
finrrA trVfnr tn tnkN them nNnN Ry6tnNttt n
warrant, I'd hnyo inalo short work. Ut 'cn,."
:" but they. WGro SO decOnlposcd rs to bO
oi!onslyc to tic nelghborl,oodw
md hGsse sa % osbs st i ':f t9 NV %eS cSas s. ss
Why, ono Of them Ind been with mo about
slx mouths, and would occasionally take n
lOuk ut It Just to seellowIt WIS gottinE nlUng.
Ono Of them had Ind nearly year."
"wnEHE nm YOU OFT THE 1,onlEs?" ?"
"From doctors, Tl1ey wero stlIl-born. |
ilncntln1g upon them witt, en1ba1nllng OK
"l'Ht had yoy Q burlnt permItp"
WHEN cl'lit Is still.barn The midwife or
Il, my tlcntl-IlOise. When / want to bury
them, then get q permit Why didn't tho
officers take the others rve got? I've some.
for months. SONG Of my men feel a iIttIo
sQ,,eainlsh about moving around among 'cln j;
but, bless your soul, tho more dead people
l!avo around rne tho inorg l!kolt. Wllytlitln'
they take TINT body,n continued the INTER
''Y Yoa ain't sq.teamls1,, re YOUR ssi;l i,e,
turning to the reporter. "Noi well, III show
y0t how the county selltlS 1ts In bodies
This Is a negro woman who died at the III
snlle asylunl."
fho lliticrtn1scr opened tho door and there
lay box tint might have, bgen taken for q
cnsu nf tlry.gout(s, II tho stencil coming from
1t EMtl not been 30 Horrible.
That bntly may rcl1.nin with me for some
weeks. Nobody hns any. business with 1t.
l suppose sUMe bull-hcatlctl policeman Eot
tho story from the driver. l don't know Ills
,,nMe. discharged him for getting drunk
ut n funeral alNl l.a Is trying to mako fuss
over nothing Mt ALL
Tho substance OF the unilertaker's tn1k was
to tho effect that lie considered himself n
very much abused man.. wIEose experiments
OH tho dentl--sOlely made to soothe the feel
tnEs NJ the ltvIng-hatl undergone the sncrl-
leEl0us t0ilcll OF u gang Of notwithstanding
policemen. Lie. clnt,ne1 tint ln ,ntl tllo same
right Il, keep bodies for cmballnIIlg expert
,nents ms the colleges had for disscctlng. pur-
W'ses: Manufacturers, Of embaInlng fluids
sent. him samples with statements tint thGy
would 10 so and 80, aud LG wanted to find
out which WIS tho best. Bodies could not
['o preserved for more than n tlny or so In.
less they were cmbaltnetl. and how WIS an
undertaken to do the work unless he studied
the sub5tet2