Connecticut western news., 1884-08-20
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 The half-body. half-skeleton remains lay uutstretched in all their ghastly terror. The blackened feshless face, barring marks of arctic toll, had no resemblance to the dead man. The head was covered with long, mathd, dark-brown hair, and a lighter col orrd mustache cleaved to the upper lip, while a wool-like beard of the same color surrounded the lower portion of the countenance. The skin was dried to the skull. The sightless sockets, the half-opened mouth, gave the dead man a look of mute, appealing agony.
 "That tells the whole story, moaned one of the brothers, gazing with 8 strange fascination on the awful scene
 The skeleton was shrunken. There was little if any, flesh on the arms and legs, and the body from the throat down was denuded uf it's skin The feet were incased Tn blush woolen socks and were emaciated, put almost intact Upon the right side of the breast, be- tween the ribs, appeared two gaping wounds, which did not fail to inspire those present with suspicion that poor kislingbury might have been foully dealt with.
 The doctors examined the mouth, and John Kislingbury, watching the movements, soon directed the attention of his brother to ev- idence which established the identity of the body, saying: ''That Is he, Frank; see ms tooth is gone Y A plate containing several false teeth was in the mouth. Further proof was furnished by marks ou the right toe, which
  guarding rebel prisoners at Elmirs by horse stepping upon his foot. For some time he expected he would have to have the toe ampu- tated, but it finally was saved
 When the doctors touched the mustache Of the dead man it came of partially. The nose was found, as described by officers of the re- lief expedition, partly missing and bent to the right. When the remains were turned over on one side, the skinless back and bare shoulder blades presented the same slckenlng spectacle as the front
 The physicians did not find any evidence of violence, and placed the body in it's original position.
 CROSS BODY TO REMAIN UNDIsTUBED.
 The report that the relatives of Sergeant Cross of the Greedy Expedition had decided to have the casket containing his remains opened is incorrect The family say that for the present at least, they have determined that no examination shall be made. At the same time it WAS stated that the brothers of Cross persisted in their purpose to have the remains exhumed in spite of the protests of the widow and the dead Sergeant's mother. One of the brothers said it was true that arrange ments had been made for opening the casket, and that his eldest brother was to do the work.
 "But," he added, 'I had talk with mother this morning, and after reading the story as to Lieutenant Kislingbury's body, we decided that it would do no good to open the coffin.
 
 better. The little boy. my broth CTS son, fourteen years of age, at first wished to know the facts. We do not feel Sc now, and I think the matter is ended. We shall bury him when the lot IS chosen and the body will be forever at rest. My best for him. We do not care to know anything different. Terrible as some of the stories are, we none of us know what we should have been done had we been in the same place. Possibly we might, if the stories are true, have felt that there could be no harm that the dead should help to save the living. It certainly did not harm the dead" LETTER FROM aREELY. letter from Lieutenant Greedy was re ceived by Major John H. Gardiner, of Phila delphia, father of the last but one of Greel, expedition to die, in which the writer expresse, the hope that Major Gardiner will not believe the horrible story of cannibalism, declaring | that there is not particle of truth in 1t | He said that Sergeant Gardiner died of inflam | nation of the bowels and water on the heart | and was buried in the ice at the foot of the hil | because the survivors were too weak to dil | a grave in the sand. He died on June I2 | with the photographs of his wife and mother in his hands and their names on his lips. CHIEF ENGINEER MELVILLE STEAKS. When a reporter went on board the Theti Chief Engineer Melville was sitting under tn | twill I say anything now?' he said, ro | beating the reporters question. "Yes, vii | say that Lieutenant kislingburys relative | should have known better than to have Ina, | his body disintered. They ought to have hat | sense enough to know from all they have reaS | that they would find a mutilated body. Wha | good did it do them? They should have le the matter rest, and I am very sorry the. | didn't.
 Really this thing is not 80 very horrible | The men were not killed and it was simply | question of the survivors eating the flesh 0 their dead companions or becoming corpse | themselves. Because those of the De Loni l party dId not do the same on the Jeannette ex ! petition is no criterion at all. De Long | party starved and froze to death in few days while these were suffering a lingering deatl from slow starvation. Lots of storie have been published which were entirel | wrong. The sailors did not know any thing as much as they pretended. Wi remained silent not because we received order to that effect. for no such orders were given but we considered 1t was none of the public business until the official statements wer made. Mind you, we have no evidence tha such thing occurred, for we did not see tn bodies eaten, and the survivors have not ad mitted that they ate them. We only have ou | opinions" :"