The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-02-12
TELL OF A CHASTITY TRAFFIC.
Confessed GhouIs Accuse DIR. AIexan-
der of fSuneriufe End inc WnrL

der of Superintending Work.
At Indianapolis in the trial of DIR. ]
| {. Alexander OH charges of grave rob.
bing, sensational testimony swas given
| 10y two confessed negro ghouls. Samuel
Martin and Walter Daniels, directly con
meeting DIR. Alexander with alleged sup.
erintendence of the work of the shouls
and with the purchase of the stolen
bodies.
Colored men known TO have participate
| Cd i'll the grave robberies took the stand
| and swore positively that DIR. Alexander
! employed them to secure dead bodies.
They told the prices he offered to pay,
and gave names of bodies taken from
graves and delivered to him.
Samuel Martin, cclored, who was prom
inently identified with Rufus Cantrell in
the grave robbing business, was the first
witness Friday. He first met DIR. Alex
ander at the latter's Office last June, he
said. The doctor told him that he want
ed from seventeen TO twenty subjects for
dissection and would pay $50 each.
Martin said that ut this meeting DIR.
Alexander told Rufus Cantrell that he
would watch the death returns at the
board of health and would notify Can
trell. The first trip, he said. was in
July, when with Cantrell and the others
he went to the Anderson cemetery and
secured the body of Glendore Gates and
handed it over to the Central College.
The next day DIR. Alexander paid him
$40
His next trip was to the EbeneZer
graveyard. when the body of Wallace
Ial,v II t..-., .l.,,,
told him the subject was not a good one.
because it was mangled by the cars, and
Martin received but So. At the same
graveyard he assisted in getting the body
of Johanna Stiltz. for which DIR. Alex
ander paid him So. In addition TO these
bodies, Martin said he got body ut the
insane hospital graveyard. which DR..
Alexander said was a good subject, but
the witness did not remember how much
money had been paid for it. =
The witness assisted in raising the
body of Rose Neidlinger at the cemetery
near Traders Point. This was early i'll
August. For this body DR.. Alexander
paid him $40. At the German Catholic
cemetery Martin and others got the body
of Mrs. DOehring, for which, he said,
DIR. Alexander paid him $40.
William Jones testified that he was
taken TO DIR. Alexander's office by Can
trell, where he made arrangements to
join the gang of ghOuls as driver. Jones
said he took no part in rObbing the
graves and merely watched the team on
the different expeditions he afterward
went on. He testified that he was with
the gangs when bodies were stolen at
Anderson and Ebenezer cemeteries.
Rufus Cantrell. the chief ghoul of the
indianapolis grave robbers, made con-
fession in that city, in which he says
thousands of Chicago graves have been
robbed. He tells an astonishing story,
that grave robbers pool is
IN existence, and that the various medi
,al colleges in Chicago are in it. He
alleges that Chicago has furnished more
bodies for dissection than any other city.
Numerous Chicago undertakers, Can
rell declares, are engaged in this traffic
II human bodies. Often. when bodies
ire taken to Theirs shops, they do not |
Jury them at all, but put weights in the
,offins and sell the bodies. Cantrell says |
lie has a list of 1000 graves he has desc
rated. Cantrell's story is discredited |
" Chicago cemetery officials and officials |
# medical bodies