The morning times., 1896-04-15
GRAVE GHOUls ON Trial
NARROW and Jones Expect to
Prove an AIibi.
RAILWAY PEOPLE TESTIFY
Both Men Identified as Those Who
Brought Boxes Marked Hardware"
for Shipment to Hanover, N. H.,
Where the Dart tmOuth Medical Col
lege Is Situated.

The trial OF George NARROW and John
Jones, colored, who are accused OF robbing
graves in Woodiaw wn and Payne cemeteries,
was begun in Judge Coies court, criminal
division, No. l, yesterday and Will be com
pleted today.
Assistant District Attorney JeffOrds con
Quoted the prosecution of the case aud the
prisoners were defended by John M. Lang
ston. The defendants are both men OF ad-
vanced years, neither OF them being far
short OF fifty years OF age. Both are large
men aud Jones has a heavy black beard
that hides the lower portions of his face.
NARROW wears a heavy mouStache and is
ffee-coiored in complication The men
are making a stubborn fight for their free
dom
The indictment under which the men are
being tried contains two counts. The
first OF these charges them with having
entered Payue's Cemetery on the night OF
February 8, and taken from a grave the
body OF Ellen Wilmington, an aged col
ored woman who had been buried few
days before. The other count accused the
alleged ghOuls OF resurrecling the body of
a colored boy named George Qualls from
its last resting place on the night or March
s.
In his opening statement Mr.. Jeffords said
thatthe body OF the boy Was packed in box
with tive corpse of man named Williams
and the box was left in the Baltimore and
Ohio depot addressed 10 l.. Is Downing of
Hanover N. H. II vas supposed the bodies
were intended for the Dartmouth College
diSsecting rooms.
The body of the woman was encased with
the body of another woman named Tones
Mr. Jeffurds said, and that box was left
at the Pennsylvania station. There were
two addresses on that box, one Baltimore
and one Detroit. and because of this fact
the box was sent TO neither place and the
discovery of the contents was the result.
Both Of the boxes were brought to the
station at about $40 O'Clock in the morn
ing. the prosecuting attorney said, and SUBJ
sequent witnesses testified. Oak leaves
We're used as packing in each one and on the
outside OF both boxes was written N cIude
letters the Word hardware"
Mary Qualls was one of the first witnesses
for the government. She testified that
she identified the body OF young Qualls
her son, at the nlorgue after it had been re-
moved there from the station. The re-
mains werein one ofthe first stages of decay
When she looked at them.
f. b. Johnson, from the Baltimore and
Ohio express office. identified the prison
ers as the men who had brought box to
his office January 81. He gave them a
receipt for it, and shipped 1t TO Hanover,
n II. The witness did not know what was
In the box and ii, like the ones in which
the bodies were subsequently found. was
marked hardware" The assistant District
attorney cOntended that this box had also
contained dead bodies. and that there had
been many previous shipments.
W Il. Robey, OF the same office, was
called next, and he identified the men
as the same ones who came some days
later and attempted 10 ship the box in
which the dead bodies We're found.
Other witnesses testified that at the
Pennsylvania office Jones took a receipt
for the box he left for shipment. under the
name of William Johnson. Sylvester Peck,
OF tina office identified him as the man
who brought the body there.
With this witness, court ad journed until