The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-28
THE GH0ULS IN COURT.
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indicted for aiding in the concealment of
a corpse, that of Moore, stolen for the
purpose of sale to medical college for
purposes of dissection"
James Harvey and Cassius Willis. re-
spectively embalmer and undertaken, are
indicted for selling without the permission
of the nearest kin of the deceased or with
out due process Of law. to some medical
college, the body of Dora Snowden, and
later assisting in the concealment of it.
Spiers, the Mount Jackson cemetery own
and concealing this body, which was sup
posed to have been buried In that cemetery.
Adam Aut, one of the sections of the Gene
position of the body of Adline Best to
medical college.
The seven negroes, who are confined in
the county jail, were arraigned before Judge
Afford in the Criminal Court yesterday
morning, and each of them. Burford Cooley,
Walter Daniels, Sol Grady, William Jones,
Rufus Cantrell, Sam Martin and Isom DON
William Jones and Isom Donnell are
charged in two specific cases, and the 9TH
ers in but one. Ali of them. brought into
answered to the call for a plea through
their attorneys when their names were
called. with the exception Of Cantrell, who
said he did not want to plead at that time
such procedure, entered a plea Of not
guilty. The ghouls were represented by
Cass Connoway and Attorney Henderson,
and were taken back to the jail after their
of all of them at 81 900 In each case, with
the exception of Donnell and Jones. which
were placed at 500 in each of their cases.
DISPOSITION OF OTHER CASES.
OF the other persons indicted none Of
them will be arraisned until the day Of
their trial, which will come up as soon as
the court can get to them. The date set
for the first Of the trials Is Nov. II, when
DR.. Alexander will be tried. After the de
position of his case the others will he
taken Up.
In DR.. Alexander's case $1,000 has been
voted for his defense by the faculty Of the
Central College of Physicians and Sur
is said that more than $500 has already
been expended by this school In the search
| for evidence which will counteract that OBJ
yestigation. When the case is called 1t is
] expected by the persons familiar with the
cases that an application for change of
| venue will be filed before Judge Afford in
| a petition in which 1t will be alleged that
| the publicity given the investigation and
| the feeling OF the residents of the county
against the ghouls will influence any jury
that might be secured to try the case.
The grand jury will now take up the
| cases OF the men in the county jail on the
regular terms business. After the dispo-
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| cases the jury will go back to the ghoul
cases. and from what Is said by the de-
| tectives and persons who have kept In
touch with the investigation, the jury has
| only begun it's work. and will. before 1t has
| finished, return indictments against many
| other persons. No indictment was returned
| against Garfield Buckner. a negro now in
| the county jail with Cantrell and the 9th.
| ers No evidence against him conclusive
enough to establish case was submitted
to the jury. but Buckner will be held a.
| a witness and may be indicted in the SECOND
/ report of the jury.
The grand jury did not return an indict
| ment against DR.. d. E. Bretz, who was Al
one time demonstration of the Central Col
| lege of Physicians and Surgeons, and wht
was accused Of the concealment Of the body
| OF John Sargent. The body of Sargent wa.
removed from the college building by Dep
uty Constable Harvey Houston on an orde
j from DIR. Bretz. and not being found wheI
q search for II was made, Dr. Bretxs nam'
| was connected with it's disappearance
Houston appeared before the Grand Jury Il
defense Of Bretx