The morning times., 1895-08-30

Tho manuscript copy Of the speech which
Virgo Jansen, the Russian resurrectionist,
who piled his grucsome trade in the Capital
for years, was To have delivered on that
long To be remembered night at the old
Opera Comique, has been found among the
papers Of a physician who recently died.
Jansen was a genius in his way, and so
successful in his calling that he and Percy
Brown, who is now feeble and infIrm, al =
wearing out weary, paralytic old age i.
Rydcr's castle, on Louisiana avenue, sup
piled all the colleges i'll the city with sub
jects," and Jansen was the man who ex-
hum"d the body of Alexander Shaw, the
executed murderer.
IL VIII be remembered that on the night
of the day upon which Shaw was buried
JanEPn dug up the body. He put it in a cal
and carried il to downtown college. The
price offered did not seem to Jansen TO be
sufficient for such treasure, so lie started
for Frecdmang Hospital, to sell The corpse
10 the Howard Unworthy authorities.
CHASTITY FINDBY POLICE.
On the way he stopped at saloon: in
fact. several of them. The corpse, which
was propped up inside, toppled over, with
the feet sticking out OF one window and
the head out of the other. While Jansen
still fingered IN the saloon, a policeman
chanced TO spy the feet sticking out and in
vestigatCd. His discovery frightened him
almost TO death and he telephoned for a
squad. The ghoulish escapade cost Jansen
one year in Jail for carrying Ii dead body
through the streets.
This attracted public attention TO the
resuIrectionist and he was prevailed upon
TO dci.N cr lecture on the tricks OF his trade.
Th,. night set for the affair arrived and
the old Opera Comique was crowded with
people at the fancy price Of So head.
The stage was set with "A graveyard scene.
The lights were so arranged as TO have
weird effect. Jansen attircd i'll ful
dress suit came on the stage, that is be
was pushed on because he was so drunk
that .c couldn't walk. A party of medical
studcrts were on hand p!entifully sup
piled with eggs Of uncertain age, and they
proposed TO give Jansen u reception that
he wouldn't forget in hurry, for disclosing
things that they well knew would create
sensation OF course, the lecture was post
poned, the egg-throwers qUelled by the
police and free fight ensued-
LOST HIS LECTURE.
Jansen was rescued. but ne lost his manu-
script A newspaper man got hold OF il
aui kept it for years. One night while on
a srree he sold it, but he could never re-
member To whom. IL seems that the ply
sician WHO recently died was the one who
bought The copy OF the speech. 1t viii
now tc put among the documents of Il
certain medical school in Washington and
the future reSurTectionistS viii make use
OF q: as text book. II is said 10
contain accounts OF the 'sBatching' OF the
bodies o. prominent people and the remains
OF man" Il great statesman and warrior,
whiah are supposed to have Crumbled 10
dust heneajl marble shafts or in Canopied
Urn, n Tcs.ty were used in the interest
o. s4cHCc II the lecture had ever been
d"ti-c5eG il Is said that many reputable
surgeons would have been implicated. Jan.
sens lecture viii, perhaps, never be heard by
the public ear, nor the manuscript be
disclosed 10 the gaze OF the initiated but
viii be TeCkoned forever, as far as the
generality of persons is concerned, among
the lost literary and scientific treasures.