The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-12-15
DENIES GRAVE ROBBERY.
PROF. OSBORSE'S PJRT IN REMOY-
ING BESSIE p4SLTE'S RODT.
Yale Man Says He Had the Permission of
the Girls Mother to Take Up the Body
She Denies It-Children Confederate
Her-Hraring Postponed Until Monday

hcr-hraring Postponed Vnul Monday
NEW HAVEN. Conn Dec li-when the
case Of DR. Oliver T Osborne. Professor in Yale
University Medical School was called in the
police court to-day. where he was charged with
unlawfully disinterrlnS the body Of thirteen
year old Bessie NanLue in the Westville Gene.
terry yesterday three hours after the coffin was
lowered into the grave Counsel for DR. Osborne
asked for a postponemeut Of the hear ing until
next Moaday and the request was granted The
doctors attorney declared that it would be clearly
shown that Or Osborne had no' undertaken To
have the body dlsnterred in violation of theiaw
In statement to-day DR. Osborne said:
Mrs NanLue was perfectly willing 10 have
the autopsy performed at her own house and II
was at first contemplated TO have II done there,
but she changed her mind and agreed 10 the plan
Of having a public burial and later. allowing
private interment II was her own suggestion
that the plan we adopted was finally decided
upon conferred with undertakers and was
given to understand that doing the affair as We
did there would be no violation Of the law Mrs
Van Lue kept declaring that il was her sole object
TO keep the affair from the knowledge Of the cbil.
dren
ON our part there was no form Of secrecy about
the matter. No one was told 10 keep quiet and
they went TO the cemetery and took the body I'D
as we agreed with Mrs Van Lue The idea that
any haste was 10 DO employed in the matter is
untrue The autopsy not set down In be
performed Till late this Afternoon. Does that
look as II we were going 10 rush through the mat.
ter The autopsy was TO be by one Of the leading
surgeons Of the city and DR. r. Z Peck and my
self. who have been the leading physicians en-
ployed on this scientifically Interesting case
TO show that Mrs Van Lue knew of the entire
ARRANGEMENTS toI the burial IL is only necessary
children when she changed her mind last night
She sent them right to Burwell' s undertaking es
Sody Mas Eaess ,sSIrdHg to the
was to have the body removed 10 Providence
later. This was understood between us and The
for by two or three Of us doctors, who bTonabt
her not only medicine, and carefully handled her
case but furnished her food as we'll An autop mr
would have been valuable from a scientific stand
point, as she was troubled by a cardiac weakness
which is rare"
Mrs Van Lue said Of the case:
i never gave the doctor permission 10 cut the
BODY he asked me continually after the girl
d dsd snd refused Hs as 10 often and all chill
500 II would allow him TO perform an autopsy
on on the body ! refused his offer. Ny children
Mrs. NanLue's children corroborated her story
The boys who watched behind the tombstones
oE the GemssIs ' see If the body be
HanLue the l7-year'old brother OF the dead gil
He said to-day: 49,
! want TO say that Ave Of US had suspicious that
the grave would be opened and we went there
IN the party were myself, William Glover Gift
ford NanLue William VanLue and John Folsom
We saw the body raised from the ground and nv
brother Clifford ran down the street and kept
the place where II finally stopped. That's how
We knew where the body was Nv"
The body Of the girl was this afternoon removed
from Burwelrs undertaking room. where the au
topsy was TO have been performed, and buried
Ia IN me grave from which y was taken last evening
IL was said tonight that WilfTed Ford sc.ton
OF the cemetery. was liable TO be arrested on The
charge OF permitting the removal Of The bodv
from the cemetery without a permit from, The
Registrar Of Vital Statistics Of this town Mr.
toId says that he was assured by Dr. Osborne
and by the undertaker that there was no violation
Of the law under the circumstances He saws
that Dr. Osborne assured him that he would stand
hom tho grave.