The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-18
is IT MARTIN?
Who Knows Who Stole the
Bodies.
A Certain "Dr." Martin Who
Pays No Tuition
Comes Dangerously Near Being
in the Tolls.
HE GETS THE BODIES
First When They Reach the Col
lege Says DR.. McClintOck.
Martin Denies This-Has a
Private Room
At the Medical College Where
He Works.
HE GETS THE BODIES
First When They Reach the Col
lege Says DR.. McClintOck.
Martin Denies ThiS-Has a
Private Room
At the Medical College Where
He Works.

The doctors and students of the Med
ical college are now trying to shift the
responsibility for the recent grave rob-
bipg outrages from one to another. and
it is altogether likely the guilty persons
will soon be known and punished.
DR.. c. S. AcClintock made statement
to STATE JOURNAL reporter concerning
the relative positions of the officers and
employees of the Medical college which
i'm mplicates TO a certain degree f. II.
Martin, one of the third year students
of the college.
Mr.. Martin the student in question in
turn says that DR.. McClintock ought to
know all about it.
DR.. McClintock insists that he has had
nothing to do with the dissecting room
of the Medical college this year.
To STATE JOURNAL repOrter today
he said: 81 have not been in the disse CT
ing room of the college this year and am
now only holding tn . position of nrofes-
sor of anatomy as an accommodation to
fill the vacancy causedAby the resigna-
ton of DR.. Alkire when he went to New
York.
when l returned from my wedding
trip about the first of November | found
the chair of anatomy vacant, and at the
request of the faculty l have been Civ
ing the lectures on anatomy since that
time. have had nothing whatever to
do with the dissecting room this year.
''Two years ago while conducting work
in the disseciing room as demonstrator in
anatomy, l contracted a disease in my
throat through being so constantly in the
room which is thoroughly saturated with
poison
"Since that time l have been compelled
to give up that kind of work, except in
special instances eand this year my work
as professor of anatomy has not taken
me into the dissecting room at all"
When asked whose business it is to
look after the dissscting room DR.. Nc
Clintock said: "That is the work of the
demonstrator in anatomy unless some
person is especially designated for that
service"
"Who receives the bodies that are sent
to the Medical college for dissection?"
asked the reporter.
That don't know. 1t may be one
and it may be another"
"Are the bodies sent to the dissecting
table Immediately when they are re-
ceived into the institution"
mo they have to be prepared by
process by which the veins are filled and
hardened which gives the veins, arteries
and nerves different colors SO that they
may be distinguished one from the
other"
''ls the person who prepares the bodies,
the one that first handles them. after
they are brought into the college?"
"Yes; he has to handle the bodies first
and would naturally know more about
the bodies than any one else"
"Who is it that performs that service
at the college?"
!
a usual thing Third year students have
but it is different in this instance. One
of - the IL Third year students.
F. H. Martin has a contract
with the college to perform certain ser
vices, among other things he makes
plaster casts of special cases operated on
in the dissecting room, mounts skeie-
tons. and he has been preparing the bod
les for the dissecting table.
"What is he paid for this kind of
work."
II don't know that he is paid anything
aside from his tuition. He has never
paid any tuition since he has been a stu
dent at the college"
Are Martins duties such that he
would know where the bodies come from
that are brought to the college?'
81 don't know that he would know just
that, but he is in a position to know
more about them than anyone else. He
has private room in the college build
ing and knows what is geing on about
the college,
The F. II. Martin referred to by DR.. Nc
Clintock is a man about 80 years of age
who at one time conducted a printing
office in Topeka and later has sold goods
on the road for the Smith Concern and
still later had a veterinary esta ablishment
on Quincy street.
Just now Martin has a sign out at the
corner of Fourth street and Kansas ave-
nue. as a Doctor and he said to Jour
NAL reporter today that he would gradu-
ate from the Medical college next spring.
Doctor" Martin, when asked about
his connection with the Medical college,
said: 81 have no connection with the in
stitution except that of student"
He afterwards admitted, however, that
he had contract with the college to per
form certain services. He would
not tell what this contract was, but called
on Dr. Alkire, the former professor of
anatomy 10 state what his connection
with the college is
DR.. AIkire then said that Mr.. Martin
had a contract with the college to make
plaster casts and mount skeletons, but
said this contract made no provision for
preparing bodies for the dissecting room.
Dr. Alkire admitted that Mr.. Martin
had done that kind of work on several
occasions when he was professor Of anat-