St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-10
ACRIME, IN ANY CASE,
Is Credited With the Horror
Found at Lake Jo-
hanna.
Positively the Body Is Not
That Of Young Charles
Kemper.
Sheriff Bean Has Information
That 1t Was a Medical
Stiff,
In Which Case the Guilty Par
ties Should Feel the
Law.

The corpse discovered by Timothy
Delaney on the west shore of Lake
Johanna was brought to the city yes
terday, but the mystery surrounding
the strange case been in no way pene-
trated. All day long crowds of curious
people swarmed in and about the city
morgue. Some feared that the remains
might be those of some missing relative
or friend, but by far the larger number
went in obedience to the prOmptings OF
a morbid mind. Among the first named
class were several friends and late as
soeiates of Charles KempeT, the missing
son of Yirginia's ex-governor, but they
were happily disappointed. in that they
saw undisputable evidence that the body
is not that of young Kemper. The teeth
might have been his, but
ALL DOUBT WAS DISPELLED
when bunch of clotted and discol0red
hair was washed out and dried. Kemp
er's hair was dark, while that of the
corpse was sandy - almost yellow.
Pinkerton's detective agency is search
for the missing Kemper, and member
of the local force called at the morgue
with a description of him furnished by
his parents. He left satisfied that 1t was
not Kemper'S body.
During the day Sheriff Bean came out
with story that was intended to settle
the theory that the man met his death
at a murderer's hands. The sheriff
claims to have positive assurance that
the body is that of railroad accident
victim, and that it was turned over to a
local surgeon and partly dissected by
four young students. The body, he
saws, was taken out to Johanna for
burial. that being considered the best
wav to dispose of it. The revolving and
words "a Traitor" on the barrel
head is
ATTRIBUTED To A FREAK
of one of the young men. who con-
ceived the idea from the CrOnin case.
Sheriff Bean, however, refuses to
diYalge the name of the reputable sur
geOn who is said to have given him the
Information, or of any of the young
men. and says that the facts are known
10 but one other man outside of the
parties he speaks of. Still there are a
very great many people who refuse to
accept the sheriff's story, which was
characterizedin in the presence of a GLOBE
reporter last night as "a cold bluff on
the part of Mr.. Bean" The speaker
was one of those people who will have
it nothing else than murder. And
there are certainly facts which make
the story look doubtful. In the first place
students who obtained the body in a
regular manner would have given it
proper and legal burial. and even had
they decided to bury it with a permit,
the body would not. under ordinary cir
cumstances, have been driven so far
from the city. Then. the body was never
diSSected as students would have dis
sected it, having been
PRACTICALLY THROWN AWAY
after the removal of the cap of the skull
and the brain matter. There are few
medical students who can afford to
throw valuable subjects away, and it
seems but natural that other uses would
have been made of this one had
the students only wanted the brain
matter. And again, had the the body
been purposely buried to create senSa-
tiOn il would have been deposited in a
place frequented by more people. The
only point in favor of the medical
student theory, except the sheriff's in
formation, is the sawed skull. Ad
herents to the murder theory explain
this by arguing that a cunning mur-
derer took this precaution to give the
officials false clue should the body be
by chance discovered. Coroner Quinn
has not yet decided whether an inquest
will be held on the body. 1t would
seem. however, that some official in
Quiry should be made in the event of
possible future developments. One
thing is certain-Whether the man was
murdered. or whether he died from in
juries received in railroad accident
and was turned over to medical stu
dents,
A CRIME HAS BEEN COMMITTED.
The manner of burial was most re-
voting. and wSs IN direct violation of
the state and city laws. Is there any
just reason why the perpetrators of
such crime as the sheriff describes
should not be punished? Looking upon
the case in the mild light of a Students
hoax. gross outrage upon common de-
cency has been committed, but it is hard
to believe that intelligent young men
could be guilty of such an Offense
against the laws of nature. If Sheriff
Beams information is the correct one,
the public will not be slow in demand
ing that the guilty parties be made
known and punished according to the
laws of the state.