Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-07
EIGHT HUMAN BODIES.
Shipment Of cadavsrs Destined for an
Iowa School Seized in Chicago.


Iowa School Seized in Chicago.
Chicago, Nov. Flight human bodies
and part of another We're discovered
last night in two boxes which We're be-
ing SHIPPED by freight to Brashear. Mo-.
as secondhand laundry machinery. The
bodies had been packed In excelsior.
The bodies were received at the Bur-
lington freight depot here from man
named Jones, and were consigned to
person Of the same name, in Brashear.
Expert boxmakers say that the crates
were made in Milwaukee. The Chicago
address given by the consignor Is that
of a local medical college.
Police officials believe that the dis
covery discloses a carefully planned
scheme to traffic in cadavers. DR..
Francis NJ. Schoenlberg Of 141 Eugene
street is under arrest, and DR.. Francis
Dickinson, president of the Harvey
Medical College has been called on to
explain his connection with the affair.
DR.. Schoenleber refuses to discuss the
charges against him, but according to
admissions made by DR.. Dickinson and
facts learned by the police he attempt
ed to chip the bodies to Brashear. Mo-,
under the name OF ]. r. Jones. DR..
Dickinson informed the police that pre-
vious to being prepared for shipment
the cadavers were the property OF the
college and that she disposed of them to
DR.. Schoenleber with full knowledge
Of how he intended to use them.
1t was stated by student of osteop-
athy in this city last night that the
shipment of bodies for which DR.. Scho-
enleber was arrested was designed for
the Still school of osteopathy in Des
Molnea The purpose was to reship
them from Bradshear, Mo-, to Des
Moines, to avoid detection. The police
do not believe that any j. r. Jones fig
ures in the case at all, but that the
name was assumed by the doctor under
arrest for the purpose of the case.
If such proves to be the case. 1t Is
rot the first time that schools of os-
teopathy In the west have figured In
sensational affairs on Chicago. Several
years ago number of the faculty of
the home school of osteopathy at
shipment Of dead bodies from the coun-
ty institute here. The bodies We're
claimed to have been illegally obtained
and considerable trouble followed. An
effort was made to get the physician
returned to Illinois by requisition, but
the authorities were not successful in
this. Eventually the criminal aspects
of the case We're dropped. but the ex-
posure brought about a revolution in
county institute affairs and many of
the employees of the poor house lost
their positions.
Charlton.
S. II. Mallory lost large amount
of corn fodder and his corn shredding
machine on Saturday evening. He had
been shredding corn in the field just
west of his Lincoln township home
and had cut up quite little bunch of
fodder which was piled up in the fields
near the shredding machine. The
men who were figuring on losing as
little time as possible did not put out
the fire in the engine, but banked it
up with the intention of doing the same
thing on Sunday and having the fire
ready to go to work early Monday
morning. Saturday evening the wind
raised and 1t is presumed staraed the
fire in the engine to burning and it
threw out % spark which lit in the
pile of shredded fodder and started 1T
and the northwest wind famed it so
furlously that 1T could not be exiting
uished until 1t had burned the entire
stock of shredded fire and the machine
and started in the corn field when 1t
was put out. The loss will probably
reach $3.50.