The Osceola times., 1882-09-30

body reached Potter's field before noon,
and was stored in a shady corner Of the
tool-house until night, when it was
hauled away. Mr.. Bowman at once
turned his attention to the colleges.
In order that the body might be iden-
tilted if found, the widow and daughter
accompanied the lawyer during his
ghastly investigation. AT this season of
the year no bodies are dissected, but q
large stock is laid in for the fall and
winter season, when the medical schools
are in full blast. Armed with authority
10 search the college watts and the quick
lime pits, in which the mangled flesh is
thrown after dissection, Mr.. Bowman
and the two women began the painful
search. After the first vat Mrs Breslaw
fainted when body was dragged TO the
surface and exposed for her inspection.
She revived in a few minutes however,
and the search went on, corpse after
corpse being looked up without finding
the one wanted. At the end of two days
the watts. pits, and dissecting-rooms OF
every medical college and school of ana
tony in the city had been examined
without success.
The women, worn out by the unnatur-
al strain on their nerves, became hope
less and favored giving up the search.
but Mr. Bowman's blood was up, and he
resolved to pay another visit TO Ugly"
Casey, believing that that tricky old
blk had lied to him on his first visit
This conjecture proved correct, for
Casey at last admitted that he had sold
the bodyat Dr. Kecn's Anatomical school
in little thoroughfare which makes
off Tenth street, between Market and
Chestnut The corspc brought Sl4.
Casey, anxious to proptiate Mr. Bow.
mans offered 10 assist in searching for
the corpse.
The offer was accepted and an hour or
two later Mr.. Bowman, Casey, and Bre
slaw's weeping widow and daughter
stood on the brink of the corpse vat in
DIR. Keens school. The women were
agitated and even Mr.. Bowman was
made nervous by the belief that the
block basin at his feet contained the
long looked-for body.
Casey was by long odds the coolest
member of the quartet. He removed
his shoes and stockings, rolled the bot
tom of his pantaloons to the knees. and,
with a short pole in his hands, slid in
waist deep among the ghastly contents
Of the vat. Before the shuddering spec
tators fairly realized what he was about
he poled up the naked corspe of a man
to the surface of the pickle, thrust one
of his arms under its neck, raised the
head so that The face could be seen, and
said: Is that him? The women shook
their heads, and the ghoulish fisherman
allowed thecorpse to slip from his arm
and hide itself in the depths of that awful
pool. Casey then fished mp the corpse of
a woman, and the body of negro, over
which he used harsh strong language.
There were fifteen subjects in the vat,
but Breslaw's corpse was not among
them. The pit in the cellar was over
hauled, but no new remains were found
there. After searching the house from
bottom TO top, Mr.. Bowman and the
women departed, leaving Casey behind
to put on dry clothes.
The women went home, and the law
yer sought and found Dr. Keen himself.
On learning the facts of the case ne went
with the lawyer to the school and or
dered the janitor to tell where the body
was. The janitor denied all knowledge
of its whereabouts, and there the hunt
ended. 1t is Mr. Bowman's opinions
that after he first saw Casey at Potttcr's
field the body-snatcher became frighten-
ed and conveying fears to the ianitor,
they together, took the body from the
vat and buried it.