The morning times., 1896-02-11
BODIES NOT IDENTIFIED
Detectives Hunt in Vain for the
Grave Robbers.
Local Cemeteries Have Not Been Dis
turbed and the Police Think They
Came from the Country.

The bodies OF the two colored women
found Sunday morning at the Baltimore
and Ohio station packed in boxes for ship
ment 10 Angus McLane, Detroit, Mich,
and transferred TO the morgue, had not been
identified at midnight. a large number of
people called there yesterday and viewed
the corpses. One man thought he recognized
a body as that of Mrs. Sarah Williams OF
Carried, but was not positive OF this. Later
he said he thought il WAS not the body OF
the woman he had known.
TheopiGion gains ground ihatthese bodies
were taken from some country graveyard.
Coroner Hammett and Health Officer
woodward have both given the matter
considerable attention, and have fur
nished aid and suggestions 10 Detective
Carter, who hes been working on the case,
but without any result.
The box that contained the bodies was ad-
dressed 10 Angus McLane, No. 223 Pelham
street. Detroit Mich. This address APP
peared on il in TWO places, but in another
place, written with blue pencil, was the
address OF some Baltimore firm, that had
evidently been left there through careless
ness.
it was left at the depot about 7:30 O'Clock
Sunday morning by three colored
men, who drove into the yard. The box
was unloaded, and the two younger men
drove away, while the third. a man ap-
parently about sixty years old, went up 10
Supt. Peck who gave him a receipt for the
package and promised TO send il out on
the O'Clock express. II was TO go col
lect."
Shortly afterward Mr.. Peek went off
duty, and when the other day man took his
place he became confused by the two ad-
dresses, and allowed il 10 lie over. Then
finding the hoX there the next morning, the
night men decided 10 open it, in order, as
they say, TO find out If possible by the con-
tents where il was 10 bc shipped.
The eXpressnan who pried off the end of
a top board and reached in had cold
shiver run up his back as his hand came in
contact with a clamnly human foot. The
top was quickly torn off, and two human
bodies, almost concealed 10y the oak leaves.
came into view.
The first description given of the men
who left the box simply told that the
old man was big and muscular, and the
younger men, who remained in the wagon
and drove off with il, were of slighter
build and about the same complexion.
From this description Detective Carter
came TO the conclusion that il was a
notorious grave robber named NARROW,
who, with two sons, who might have been
hlS iWD COupa MONS llAcS Just Mllln Tie
District line. MARROW, however, is of a
very light ginger color, and The expressmen
said that the old man, as well as the other
two, were black.
As the bodies had evidently been dead no
longer than five days, list OF the burial
permits for the past ten days was fur
nished Detective Carter by Health Officer
Woodward. From this the detective Sc
lected the names, etc, OF all women who
In the slightest degree answered the edes Grip
tion OF the two bodies at the morgue. Then
St was ascertained what undertakers con-
Quoted the funerals and they were taken
TO the morgue. They were only five In
number and all declared that the remains
OF the two were not buried by them. IL
could not be ascertained. either, that there
was any suspicion that any of the local
cemeteries had been visited by ghouls.
Everything indicates, according to the
pOIicc, that the bodies were stolen from
some outside cemetery, and shipped from
here. as the most available point In that
case the participators in the horrible traf-
fic could only be prosecuted in the District
for violating the health ordinance IN TAX
ing dead bodies through the streets with
out a permit. This is simple misde-
nleanor. punishable by a small fine or
short imprisonment.
In case the bodies are not identified
they will be treated as unknown dead and
delivered INTO the charge Of the coroner.
He will cause an autopsy TO be held 10 de-
termine the cause OF their death. and issue
q permit TO bury them in Potter's Field.