Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-02-12
FRON So TO $50.
Prices Paid for CadayePs at
Indianapolis.
DIR. ALEXANDER'S TRIAL.
Men Whom He Hired to Lift"
Corpses Testify.
DIR. ALEXANDER'S TRIAL.
STOLEN SHROUDS In COURT.
Evidence Found I'm the Basement of
n Medical College Is Exhlbited-A
Number of GhouIs Tell of Their Op-
eratiOns In GraVeyards.

indianapolis, Feb. I'm the trial
of DR.. j. c. Alexander in the grave
robbing cases Friday, parcel in the
possession of detectives was intro
duced in evidence. 1t contained two
shrouds found by detectives in the
basement of the Central college, as a
result of a visit with search warrants.
One of the shrouds was identified as
baving been made for Mrs. Catherine
Doehring, whose body was stolen
from the German-Catholic cemetery.
1T was identified by woman who
did the needlework.
Samuel Martin, colored, who was
prominently identified with CantrelI
in the grave robbing business, testi-
fled that DR.. Alexander told him he
wanted from II to 20 subjects for dis
section and would pay $50 each
Martin said that Dr. Alexander told
Rufus Cantrell that he would watch
the death returns at the board of
health office and would notify Cam
trell. The first trip. he said, was
made in July, when, with CantrelI
and the others, he went to the An
derson cemetery and secured the body
of Glendore Gates and handed it
over to the Central college. The next
day Dr. Alexander paid him $40
His next trip was to the Ebenezer
cemetery, when the body of Wallace
Johnson was secured. DIR. Alexander
told him the subject was not a good
one. because it had been mangled by
the cars and Martin received but S..
At the same graveyard he assisted in
getting the body of Johanna Stiltz,
for which DR.. Alexander paid him SIS.
In addition to these bodies Martin
said he got body at the insane hos
pital cemetery, which DR.. Alexander
said was good subject, but the wit
ness did not remember how much
money had been paid for it.
The witness gave further particu-
lars of securing several other bodies
which he said were delivered at the
college and for which he received pay
from DR.. Alexander.
On cross-eXamination Martin said
there was generally liquor in the
crowd when they went out to rob
graves; they generally had whisky or
gin. and while they drank it. they did
not get drunk. Liveryman Case said
DR.. Alexander had paid him $40 for
rigs used by Cantrell Charles Medi-
ras, pawnbroker, said DR.. Alexan-
der had twice taken Cantrell's clothes
out of pawn and had paid him $50.
Walter Daniels said he first met
DR.. Alexander with Cantrell in July.
He was introduced as a man who
would stick. Daniels said: "CantreII
told him | had worked for Thornton
j. Barnes, demonstrator Of anatomy
at the Northwestern college in Chca-
go. DR.. Alexander said he was glad
that some one would stick, for the
boys had fallen down. Cantrell said
bodies were not worth much in Chi
cago and DR.. Alexander said they
were worth but dollar in New York
City. He said he had nothing on
hand then, but he would watch the
returns and let us know when we
would be needed. The following Sat-
urday night we went to DR.. AleXan-
der's Office and he told us there was n
good colored subject in the Ander-
son cemetery and he wanted us boys
to go out and get it. | asked him
what my share of the job would be
and he said he would give me three
dollars. SO we went out to Anderson
yard and got the body of Estella Mid
dleton. Dr. Alexander said that it
was a good subject and paid me the
So"