Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-11-13
RESURRECTIONISTS AT WORK
It is Believed That the Three Negroes
Captured Are of That Stamp.
Others Rob n Grave While These Are
Caged-The Body, How
ever, fs Left.

The arrest at an early hour Saturday
morning of the three negroes in a wagon
on the Brentwood road, as published in
Saturdays Star, caused some comment in
police circles. AS stated Saturday it was
supposed by some of the officers that the
men were probably the burglars who have
been visiting all sections of the District
and destroying so much furniture and wear
ing apparel. The fact that the men were
in a wagon gave rise to this belief, be-
cause when the men appeared at Takoma
they had a horse and wagon. When they
appeared in the Police Court Saturday
their counsel, Lawyer Moss, demanded a
jury trial and the case went over Judge
Kimball saw the arsenal taken from the
prisoners, the large sack and rope ladder
and then fixed the bond at $500.
The negroes were unable to give bail
and they were thereupon committed to JAIL
AS published in Saturdays Star, George
NARROW, ST.. one of the prisoners, is an ex-
convict and his home is in Ivy City In
that suburban village the residents were
delighted Saturday evening when they read
In Saturdays Star the account of the ar
rest of NARROW. Being arrested as they
were near Columbia Harmony cemetery
the first impression made upon the officers
was that the men were resurrectionists
and they are still of that opinion The ap-
pearance of the burglars in East Washing
ton Saturday night while the negroes were
In jail dispelled the idea that they were
the burglars while the interest taken in
the men by physicians caused the officers
to believe that they were violaters of
sepulcher. resident of Ivy CVity called
upon Mr.. Mullowney. the prosecuting at
torney, this morning, to tell him some
thing Of the elder NARROW, as many resi-
dents of that suburb are anxious to get
the case tried, as they are DESTROYS of get
ting rid Of NARROW as a neighbor.
Others at Work.
While the three men were enjoying
nights rest in Jail Saturday night resur-
rectionists were at work in Mount Zion
cemetery. a colored burying ground on the
suburbs of Georgetown.
The cemetery was visited sometime dur
Ing the night and there in sight Of several
dwelling houses the men did their ghastly
work and took from the grave the body
Of Spencer Mitchell. a colored man, who
departed this life earlier in the week and
whose remains reached the supposed last
resting place of the coored driver Mitchell
had been injured by q horse and his death
followed in few days. At the hospital an
autopsy was performed and on Friday the
body reached the grave. Henry Bowles
the colored sexton of the cemetery noticed
yesterday morning that Mitchers grave had
been disturbed and following footprints
from the grave he soon saw blood stains
on the ground. Following these stains he
went across Rock creek and along I'D the
hill to Massachusetts, avenue he discovr; ed
portions of the entrails of the dead man.
Finally he found the body that had been
stripped of its clothing and dragged so far
from the grave. When the resurrection
lists reached the spot where they left the
body II Is supposed that a physician saw
the body and did not want 1t because of
the post mortem examination having been
made.
1t was about o'clock yesterday morning
when the body was found and the police
removed 1t to the morgue. Undertaken Eur
horst of Capitol Hill prepared the body for
Its second burial, which took place today