The evening times., 1896-03-05
ONLY TWO GH0u[S HELD
Young Mar!oWe Was Discharged
From Custody.
HEARING IN POLICE COURT
Testimony Was Offered ConclusiveIy
Showing That the Elder NARROW
and Jones Were the Guilty Men.
They Were Fully Identified by Svit-
nesses johnson and Peck

Judge Miller's court room was crowded
today with spectators who were anxious
| to see the Grave-robbers and hear the tes
timony against them. The prisoners were
| arraigned at 1910 o'clock, and ans weretl
to the names of George MARROW, John
| Jones and jeremiah NARROW.
| They were charged under the law passed
by the Firty-third Congress with desc
Grating graves. and pleaded not guilty.
| The prisoners were represented by At
torneys NJ. NJ. Holland and Pcyton, while
Prosecutor Mullowney appeared for the
government.
Undertaken winslow, colorcd, testified
| that Ellen Wilmington, colored, late OF
| Blagden's saley, wasburicd by HMM Pa yne's
| Cemetery. on the Bcnning road, on Febru-
| ary 1, 1896. A daughter Of the deceased
also gave testimony as to her moticr's
| burial.
sergt. John c. Daley was next called to
| the witnessstand. Hcdcscribed how he had
| received information that the box contain
| Ing two dead bodies had been left by two
| colored men at the Adams Express depot.
corner of Sixth street and Virginia avenue.
HE FOUND TWO BODIES.
Sylvester Peck, the night clerk at the
United States Express freight office, near
the Baltimore and Ohio depot, testified
to the discovery OF two bodies, found in a
box shipped on February s to Detroit.
He said that evening at 7:30 o'clock n
| wagon backed up 10 the platform ami two
| colored men unloaded a long pine box.
Il had one or the kind, before, from the
same man." said Mr.. Peck, pointing to
.IOhn JnnpS whose iinS iS
| '.and / became suspicious after the receipt
had been made out and the men left"
Mr.Pcck said he and the night boss opened
the box and discovered the bodies, which
were afterwards identified as the renia ins
OF two co!orcd women, Ella Whit ington
and Kate Thomas, stolen from Paync's
| cemetery.
Ernest l.. Johnson, another clerk, said
on the 31st of January box was shipped
over the lines of his company to L. B.
Downing, Hanover, n. H., by two negroes
| whom he saw before him in the dock. They
were John Jones and George NARROW.
HE WAS SUSPICIOUS.
johnson testified that the men represent
ed the box, which weighed $50 pounds. as
containing hardware. johnson had noticed
similar shipments from the same parties,
and did not believe the contents We're as
alleged. He pried open one end, and,
sticking his hand in, felt oak leaves. 1t
was in this way that the corpses stolen from
Payne's Cemetery were packed.
johnson renailcd the box and sent ii on
the way to Dartmouth College at Hanover.
1t undoubtedly contained bodies.
Mr.. Johnson's suspicious caused Mr.. Peck
to open the box shipped ON February g.
Considerable confusion ensued in q col
loquy between the judge and attorneys as
to the identification Of the prisoners. Peck
and Johnson were recalled and they both
implicated the elder NARROW and Jones,
but there was no testimony to connect
young jeremiah NARROW with the affair.
The court released him and held the other
two in 81 600 bail for the grand jury. The
case OF the two bodies discovered at the
Adams Express Company's warehouse on
Monday, shipped by Jones and NARROW,
was abandoned by Mr. Mullo wney, the as
sistant prosecuting attorney.