Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-09-30
RALEIeA,s sTAR ATTRACTION.
THE EMBALMED BODY OF THos.
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JONES.
Raleigh, N. c.. Sept. 2e.-Some weeks
ago, Thomas Jones' who was under
sentence of death and confined in the
jail IN this city. sold his body to DR..
A w. Goodwin for So This money
was paid Jones. and with the most of
1t he procured all kinds of fruit ice
cream, and other delicacies. and lived
high" until the day he was hanged.
Shaw University, q college in this
city for colored boys and girls, has a
medical department attached, and
several of the white physicians deliver
lectures to the students OF medicine.
The medical department was endowed
by man named Leonard, and goes by
the name of the Leonard Medical Do.
partment." DIR. Goodwin purchased the
body for the purpose of dissectsng the
same before the students. and at the
time of the execution of Jones the Uni
verSity had not opened for the fall ses-
sion. In order to preserve the body
Mr.. John w. Brown, undertaken. em.
balmed 1t. and 1t Is in a state of abso
lutte preservation in the establishment
of MIR. Brown in this city. 1t is now
four weeks since Jones was put 10
death, and his body has been on exhi
bition In the undertaker's shop ever
since. AS soon as 1t was known TINT
the body could be seen the colored
people commenced to swarm around the
shop and Mr.. Brown was compelled ia
fix a way so that they could view the
body as 1t lies in coffin and then
pass out. Thousands OF colored people
have passed the body in review and
the greatest curiosity has been exhibit
ed concerning this dead body.
Jones murdered colored woman and
set llre 10 the house and burnt I'M four
children. The negroes We're greatly
incensed at this wholesale murder and
wanted to lynch Jones, but were pre-
vented by the white people. AS they
lions could be heard. and some would
shake their fists at the corpse and
others would declare that they knew,
the devil must then have his shirt.
some of them thumped the body and
were surprised to find that it was as
nard as adamant, and gave it as their
opinion that fire and birthstone would
do Tom Jones no harm.
Last week there was q convocation
mere OF the religious colored people
who go by the name of the Holiness
People" They believe in sanctification
whiie on earth. There were several
hundred OF these people in attendance
on their meeting, and one day they
adjourned and in body made a pill
grlmaSe to the undertaker's shop and
viewed the embalmed body of Thomas
Jones. Since he was hanged there
nave been several excursions of col
ored people to Raleigh from neighbor-
ing towns. and the drawing card to
induce the people to patronize these
predatory trips is the opportunity free
of charge to see the body of Thomas
Jones. Since death the beard has
grown out half an inch or more, and
this is great wonder to the colored
people. To-day there is an excursion
of colored people from Louisburg, and
their first place of resort was the un-
dertaker's shop and a sight of the
body of Thomas Jones.
Frequent demands have been made
on the sheriff by the colored people for
pieces of the rope used at the execu-
ton. Thy say 1t will keep the witches
away. and is never-failing badge OF
good luck.