The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1894-03-17
The Ptends tninaske ed.

For the past week or more the West
End daily diapers have been publishing
exciting and dark lantern stories about !.
body snatching, grave robbing
cutting up men before they were cold
in death investigating committees
from the county board, not per
mitted to mention names etc, etc
Now when a crime has been com
mitted in a community it is the duty
Of the newspaper man to run it down,
find out what there is in it and give 1t
to the public, and not to publish one
side of the story and by inuendo and
implication cast criminal reflections
upon their neighbor.
AS we say, for two weeks past these
papers and a few Office seeking indlvid-
uals have made a great fuss over
what became Of the body Of one Olsen,
a pauper, who died in the hospital
some three weeks ago, but their stories
we're all one sided and no effort was
made to give all the facts, but their
aim was to injure certain persons by
certain MYSTERIOUS whisperings. To
get things in proper shape, the TINES
sent out man to run the stories down
and find out what was really going on.
lie found nothing worthy Of notice
under other circumstances, Int to set
matters right he will tell all there IS in
the big bug boo story
It seems that about the time the man
Olson died it was accidently discovered
that something unusual and very
strange was the matter with his organ
ism, though not anything that con
tributed to his death, which was
caused by fever and exposure before
being taken to the hospital lie beng
city charge and no friends to be
found to claim the body, number OF
PHYSICIANS petitloned the city physic-
ian DIR. Rene, who had charge Of the
ease. for an order for the body that
they might investigate the case ana
learn what his trouble was. Dr. Rene
gave the order for the body as request
ed. The physicians then repaired TO
the undertaking rooms OF Messrs. Lo-
que Il Whitney, on Tower avenue,
where the body had been taken, ana
on presenting the order the body was
given into the hands OF the doctors,
eight in number.
The physicians asked permission to
make their Investigations in the room
where the body then lay, and thus save
moving and handling. Permission to
do so was granted by Messrs. Logue \
whitney, and in few minutes the
little descecting necessary was done
and the information sought was OBJ,
tanned The body was then returned
to the undertakcrs who proceeded tC
So it for the grave, and this being done
il received plain but decent burial III
the NemadjI cemctary. The papers
also claim that undue haste was made
and that the man died one Afternoon
and was operated on the next morning
This like the rest is not true. Ih'
man died early in the afternoon o
Saturday and the investigation wa
made on Monday 50 much for that
This is the whole "Goulish' story Il
nut she'll. No secrecy, no occasion
for Withholding names, no occasion 10
the County Board committee OF invest
igation, no occasion for unusual CON
ment. Everything was done regularl
and according TO the statutes i'll sue
case made and provided.
The county physician, DR.. Collin:
and poor commissioner, Mr.. Kennel,
seem to be the ones whose sense Of PR
priety seems to be most seyereI
shocked AS ii IS near election tin
they no doubt wish to make 1t appeS
to the public that they are very watei
full for the welfare Of the dead as We
as the living. They also understar
that Mr. Whitney, the leading undo
taker in the matter is a candidate L
Supervisor from the First ward, Al
both gentlemen very much desire tn
some other man be elected, and th'
no doubt hoped to Kill him of
springing this aGoulish' story on hi
lust at tins time. Here, also, is I
venom and malice of the whole matt
in nut she'll Or Collins and Coz
missioner Kennedy and their new
paper satellites have not covered thel
selves all over with glory in this mise
able attempt to make political capt.
out OF nothing, Seat.