Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-03-30
Startling Revelation.

Sirty Thousand Bogus Medical Diplo
mas Issued-ProtessiOnal .Abortionist
People that Read Destiny Unde
the Light of Candles Made Of Human
| Fat-Loue Potcders- Puiuerieed Giz
zurd of Ch,ckens-Bogus Suicide o
Professor Buchanan.
The Philadelphia Record of las
Friday speaks of the notorious DIR
Buchanan as follows: When Buchan
an was entrapped, and the trick O
his alleged drowning was completely
exposed by his arrest in Michigan
last September, the old man saw thai
his last hope of escape had vanished
so he accepted the inevitable, and
bowed to the SUI 5femacy of the law
On returning to this city he promised
to do ali that man could do to right
the wrongs he had committed. He
has given up all the books he had
the matriculation books, the minutes
of faculty, minutes of trustees, ac
count books, alumni minutes-and a
mass of valuable information, includ-
ing a list of foreign diplomas sold
and catalogue of addresses includ-
ing over 5000 names of persons who
had corresponded with him. He
gives the names of wholesale drug
gists in Philadelphia who have sold
his diplomas, and he gives the names
of the parties to whom the diplomas
were issued He relates how diplo-
mas were signed by the faculty; how
in one instance three professors, for
So each, signed 500 dif fomas for him,
and how, for $3.50, the diplamas
which were to go abroad were certi-
fed to by Spanish Consul. In all,
abou. 10000 names are tangled up
in his disclosures. He has given the
names of many professional abor-
and the means whereby they
destroy life. He tells of faith in the
of fortune teller in
Philadelphia who reads destiny under
the light of candies made of human
fat. He relates how one doctor goes
to Europe annually and brings back
love-powders which he represented
were compounded at the shrine of
Cupid in Minerya's temple. He de-
scribes how one concern sells the
pulverized gizzard of a chicken as a
compound to produce artificial di-
gestion. He recites incidents where
In he robbed graves, and how on one
Saturday morning he stole five dead
bodies from Blockley Almshouse. He
tells how he kept himself clear of the
courts and their penalties. He tells
of twenty-five concerns in this coun-
try and in Europe by which degrees
are sold He figures that fully 90
600 bogus diplomas are current in
America, and 10000 more in Europe.
He gives the authorities a lever by
which they can uproot every diploma
dealer in America.
After Buchanans detection in Can
ada and his return to Philadelphia
public curiosity was satisfied upon
every point of the Deans strange
doings except as to the identity OF
the man who had personated him and
had jumped from a ferry boat into
the Delaware river. 1t is now posi-
bic to clear up that phase of the case
and to reveal the ingenious details of
the whole proceeding On the night
of the 10th of August last Buchanan
went to the Market street ferry.
where Nanduser and a man named
Sheppard, better known as "Shep,
were in waiting. Buchanan gave his
coat to his double and then drove of
in a carriage to the Connecting Rail
road Junction, and ''Shep" passed on
to the ferry boat, to be saluted by
Holton as doc" and to be pointed
out by Vanduser as DR.. Buchanan.
Of course ''Shep" had nothing to say
to any one on the boat, and this point
was used by Vanduser to impress on
the deck-hands the fact that .1the doc
tor is acting strangely to night As
the ferTy-boat turned to enter the
canal separating Ridgway Park from
Windmill Island a skiff crossed its
bow and lay close in under the shad-
ow of the piles that jft from the
point of the island. '.Shep" stripped
himself of Buchanans coat and
plunged overheard The excited pas
sengers on the ferry-boat rushed
wildly about and watched for the un-
fortunate TO rise. They saw the doe
tors head bob up in the water; they
heard him give one loud ear splitting
cry of despair, and then, after faint
sruggie with the waves. saw him
finally sink beneath the moonlit wa
ters- This was very pretty, but. as
matter of fact, '-:5hep" did not take
ten strokes in the water before he
caught hold of his partners skiff,
and, clutching lightly to the stern,
was hauled down the river to below
Point Airy, where lie clambered in
and was rowed along the Jersey side
of the river up to Coopers Point and
THENCE across to Palmer street wharf,
which was near his home in Kensing-
ton Meanwhile Vanduser went into
Mysteries ON the boat. He cried and
raved over the Doctors loss like
rnadman, and then went down Jersey