The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-02-13

AN ALLEGED viRGINIAN DIsPOsES or THEM
FOR TMENTY.FINE DOLLARS.

AN ALLEGED viRGINIAN DTsPOsES or THEM
FOR TWENTY-FIVE DOLLAas.
New YORK, February ll.-"Dr." Selden
Whiiaker Grove. the man VINO was arrcsle d
I'm The Astor House on Wednesday night for
drunkenness and dsorderly conduct and
the carving Of concealed weapons, was ar
raigned I'm the Tombs Court yesterday. He
gave the name OF Charles w. Selden when
first arrested, but furnished his full name
after arraignment. He was fined SO
for carving pistol without license,
$40 for drunkenness, and committed 10 The
city prison by Justice Smith in default OF
$500 bail TO stand trial for carrying gen.
uinc swOI cine. On his person were
found n case OF surgical instruments ana a
letter signed by &. j. Loggins. NJ. d., De-
monstrator Of Anatomy in the University
OF Vermont at Burlington. IL asked
Groves terms for procuring cadayers or
dead bodies, and purpOrted 70 be letter
on business, with the business in nut
SHELF the business being the procuring OF
dead bodies for medical use. The prisoner
promptly paid the $50 in fines before he
was taken down TO prison.
Grove lives at No. 49, Lexington avenue
with his wife and son. the latter OF whom he
says weighs pa pounds, although only four
teen years old. lie has an Office at No. IL
south Fifth avenue, and at his residence
there is nickel sign bearing the name
"Dr. Selden" on the front door. Grove
said be was irregular" physician, and was
registered on the Board Of. Health list. He
graduated from the Columbian University,
OF Washington, u. c., III 1857, previously
graduating from The Jefferson College,
at Philadelphia, in 1856. He had diplo-
mas from both institutions, and had been
professor of Anatomy IN the former for
four years. He attended now The course
Of lectures at the University Medical Col
lege, and produced his ticket for the course,
and also what he claimed were bona tde
passes 10 Bellevue and Charity Hospitals.
issued to him as " Selcen W. Grove, VI.
D." The letter from the man Lo2ginS, OF
Burlington, was answered long ago, and IT.
business transacted. Grove laughed at tbs
point, and said he had been engaged IN The
business OF procuring cadayers ever since
| liuchanan'S administration. lie got bodies
and disposed Of them at the rate OF S2o
apiece. lie refused to say where he pro-
cured them, declaring il wouldn't do 10
rive away the business" lie bagged
tramps." he SAID. They made tue best sub
| jects. lie would get them for anybody at
The rate he mentioned, or for $50 pair.
Grove said he had been in practice in this
city since 1865, coming. here after the close
OF the war. lie fought in the Twenty
fourth cavalry battalion, Confederate State,
army, Of Virginia, during the war, and had
been arrested In Washington on suspicion
of being implicated IN the plot to assissinate
President Lincoln. He said the pistol found
on him belonged to bis boy. He had taken
| it out to get some cartridges TO Mt the cham
bers. The sword.canc. he said, was very
innocent weapon, being made out OF the
handle OF his wfe's parasOl. He said be
would get his lawyer to "buy" him a
| bondsman to get him out OF prison. lie
would make it all right afterward.