The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03
HAD A CORPSE TRUST.
How Chicago Sharpers Defraud-
ed Knights & Ladies of
Security.

The knights and Ladies of Security case
being tried in Chicago may be dismissed
there and brought to Topeka for trial.
The case results from what is alleged
to be an attempt to defraud the order by
the iian on o10S the life of Robert
OfGrady who is still living.
H s Lewis, business manager of the
the trial of DR.. Regent yesterday and
told how he had furnished a cadaver TO
James o. Brien, of the alleged con-
spirators in the fraud practiced on the
Knights and Ladies of Security This evil
dence came at the close of the state 5
caseF against DR.. Regent. charged wit h
collecting an insurance benefit on the life
Brentano's court Monday and testified he
still alive.
The manager of the corpse trust said
that he informed O. Brien that with the
body went the services Of DR.. William
Eckley, the president OF the Demon
strators association, who always went
with a body so that a perfect demonstra-
ton could be made before a class. He
testified that o Brien waived the services
of DR.. Eckley and informed him that he
had secured the services of Joseph Eckert
Andrew Nyquist, an attendant at the
Wonan's Medical college at Evanston,
said:
Il received a telephone message from
DR.. Eckley, who informed me that an
undertaken named OiBrien would call i'm
mediately at the college for a body and
that 1 to give it to him He called
and accompanied him TO the dissecting
the operating tables and missions had
been made in it for the purpose of making
experiments. We placed the body on the
elevator and lowered it to the main floor,
when he placed it in the wagon. That is
the last 1 heard of the body until the
present case became public
H. Friend, a shoe dealer in State street,
through whose efforts the lodge check for
the Insurance on 20 Grady's life was
cashed, was on the stand. 1t is claimed
that he is intimate friend OF DR.. Re-
himself in the matter of assisting Mrs.
Della Mahoney and Miss Margaret Shee-
han in cashing the check at the Fort
Dearborn National bank He admitted
tify Mrs. Mahoney.
Adolph Erickson. the driver employed by
the Demonstrators association to deliver
bodies secured by it to the colleges, testi-
fed that on November %, 1898, he drove
out to Dunning and was given the body
of the man subsequently buried as Rob
ert Q 'Grady He described the BODY in
detail and told of its delivery by him to
the Woman's Medical college He told of
the tag fastened to one of the dead man 5
toes, which bore the name Richard Nor
that of Nyquist, the attendant at the Wo-
mans Medical college.
James Koppelmeyer, a former clerk at
Forest Home testified to receiving a
burial permit from Undertaken O Brien.
which read that he had permission to re-
move the body of Robert O'Grady from
S37 West Congress street, the place where
OGrady was said to have died. Inc GER
tiffcate was signed by DR.. Regent as the
attending physician, and James . Brlen,
undertaken.
The state has closed it's case. and today
the defense will place its witnesses on the
stand. Attorney Geeting expects to enter
his motion this morning for dismissal
on the grounds that the Illinois courts
real cash was secured at Topeka, Kas., on
the Insurance.