The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-10-08

Indianapolis, Oct. s.-This city il oecp'y
tirred by daily revelations concerning
he operations for three years OF gang
bf grave robbers. aided. It is charged
by physicians In local medical colleges
In this period fully $50 bodies have been
stolen from suburban cemeteries me
eader of the ghouls has confessed ana ne
hnd seven companions are IN JAN. wniie
number OF leading physicians nave
been arrested and released temporarily y"
bail.
The Indiana law against grave TOD
ng provides these penalties:
For disturbing a grave-Three 10 ten
years i'm state prison.
For removing corpse-Three 10 ten
years In state prison.
For concealng a stolen corpse-one 10
three years I'm state prison.
For buying n stolen corpse-One 10
three years I'm state prison.
For failure 10 produce record OF bodies
received by medical college-One month
to one year In county jail.
For receiving a corpse without record
-One 10 five years in state prison.
For making false entry in record or
corpse--One TO three years In state prison
For dissecting corpses OF which there
is no written record-Two to five years
In state prison.
Warrants have been issued for these
physicians: DIR. Joseph C. Alexander.
demonstrator OF anatomy i'm the Central
College of Physicians and Surgeons, ac-
cused OF aiding In robbing graves Dr.
Frank NJ. Wright. secretary ana treas
urer of the Eclectic Medical school, TOT
not keeping a record of bodies dissected;
DR. j. G. Wilson, of Owenton, n.y., an
inferno I'm the Central college. for aiding
IN robbing graves; George Haymaker,
fanitor OF the Central college, for con-
cealing stolen corpses: Rufus Cantrell and
seven other negroes, for grave robbing.
BODIES MISSED EVERYWHERE.
Each day fresh discoveries are being
made that bodies have been stolen. ana
the relatives of beople buried In the past
three years are growing more uneasy
Crown Hill, the citys largest burying
ground has not been disturbed. but bodies
are missing from every other cemetery
In Marjbn county.
Rufus Cantrell and the seven other
colored men have all made CONCESSIONS
duplicating themselves and Dr. Joseph
c. Alexander. Cantrell says that MS
band Of negroes was armed with shotguns
and was well equipped with horses and
wagons with which 10 do the WORK.
The bodies were sold TO the dinerent
indiana medical colleges, and disguised
as freight, bodies have been sent IN
bars and barrels to medical coileges III
Chicago. Cincinnati, st. Louis and Louis
Vile.
The negroes, according TO Cantren.
receiyed $40 for every body. The leader
admits that his share OF the pronts since
July mas been $4e0 and that severai
Of the other negroes realized almost as
much. a.
revelations is the statement OF the ne
rroes that their shotguns we're procured
through the help Of DR.. Joseph G. Alex
ander. who guaranteed to dealer that
they would be paid for. This factor In
the situation has aroused public senti-
ment more than any other single thing
MYSTERIOUS NIGHT ALARMS.
A mysterious man. riding in a closed
carriage at night, recently visited the
homes of people who had Just buried 'nen
dead. and notified the families that the
hodv Of the person buried had beer
.tolen. that II would be found at the
Central College of Physicians and sur
seons Some OF the families concerned
secured the bodies. but in other cases
they were unable 10 do So
The detective department set TO worf
m unrayel the mystery of the man II
the closed carriage. and has uncovered
the wholesale conspiracy. III develops
that Cantrell himself was probably tn
man who gave the mysterious warnings
that ne and the officers OF the Cenua
Medical college had disagreed over mat
o.
aentally TO create n demand Tor NOR
cornses and thus make business better
as fast as n corpse was stolen he notine'
the relatives of the dead---
The first real clue came when a gun
.r,,th named Augustus Habich secures
,,rit ~ replevin for four shotgun
nawned in a loan Office The detective
learned from Habich that Cantrell an
three other negroes had purchased thes
guns. and that payment was guarantee
bv Drs Alexander and Wright ines
circumstances were so suspicious tina
S,an,raI was arrested. He became fright
saas ana revealed the details Of the wor
ne had been carrying on.
cantrell said that he had taken bodie
from the Anderson cemetery, nortn
this city; from Ebenezer cemetery iroi
the German Lutheran cemetery from u.
Mount Jackson cemetery ana honl ~, ~
burying ground OF 'he Ne"u "'F
Tor the insane
CAN'T FIND GIRLS BODY.
There has been more interest In u
search for the body OF Miss Glendoi
Gates who was buried in the Anderso
cemetery, than I'm any other The myst'
,e,,s man Of the closed carriage warne
The Gates family that their daughter
hodv had been stolen. The grave wa
then opened. and the coffin box was Tour
untouched. The grave was filled and u
hody Of the daughter lay In the churci
yard. - Ar,
when cantrell confessed he said TN
tbe body of Miss Gates had been take
Assisted by newspaper reporters,
family hurriedly opened the daughter
grave a second time. and found that u
BODY was indeed gone. search OF
the medical colleges was made but
sr.cs ~ the body could be found
Cantren said that Dr. Alexander accor
nanIed the gang TO the Anderson Gem
terry one night to get the body OF = ms ms
named Dietz. who had committed ~
eide There were 50 many flowers on q
grave and the designs were arranged
such way that II WAS decided not
modest the grave. as the aoc'or W
afraid he could not replace the howe
and articles in TIE same way The y
xroes In the cross examination told the
tectives that they often found jewelry
the graves and took H.
The entire state has been aroused
Cantreirs confession that In the lant thr