The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-07

Chicago and New York. where DIR. Alex
ander said they were worth but dollar;
DIR. Alexander told US OF a body In the
Anderson graveyard. that OF Estella Miu-
dleton. and said he would like TO have IL;
i asked him hcw much my services Wouio
be worth and ne said &, II we got lns
body. We got il and DR.. Alexander paid
me for rIy services after he pronounced it
a good subject. Before we started OUT 4
asked him If there were any laws In IN,
diana against taking the body and he said
he knew OF none but advised me not TO
get In the way Of the police
The next time 1 saw the doctor was IN
September. | met Rufus Cantrell on me
street and he told me OF the statement
printed in the newspapers about DR.. Max,
well talking about grave-roboinS ana
Cantrell was worried about IT. he ana !
went into the doctors office and talked
with him about IL. Cantrell told MIN that
he ought TO see DIR. Maxwell and advise
him TO say nothing to newspaper reporters.
but to put them off when they asked MIN
questions about the dissection material OF
the colleges of the city. Alexander said ne
thought this a good plan and he advised
Cantrell and myself to keep still ABOUT Il
and TO leave the office, as the reporters
might be around at any time and II would
look bad TO see the three Of US together.
l only helped take the body of the one per-
son, the colored girl. Estella Middleton.
AN INTELLIGENT PERSON.
The cross-examination of Daniels showed
that he was something more than the rest
fN@~1N-N--
intelligently and without any attempt at
evasion. He denied having been accused
of theft by his former employers and that
his picture occupies place in the Rogues'
Gallery. He was asked if he wasn't a
party to the lie of Cantrell that he had
worked for a physician in Chicago in secur-
ing bodies and he said:
We'll, J listened to it,
Attorney Span also asked him If he had
rnrf 49, - - he
introduced as 1.-THE gentleman from Chi
cago." and he answered:
mo, / said as the man from Chicago
Mr.. Spaan suggested that he might have
made the distinction rather than permit
the witness to do so and excused him.
Samuel Martin, another of the band OF
said he was a laborer, twenty-seven years
old, and had known Cantrell for several
years He said he first met Alexander in
June last at the physicians office. He
said the doctor told him that he wanted
from seventeen to twenty bodies. and would
pay $50 for each. He said he assisted
Rufus Cantrell In stealing the body OF
Glendora Gates from the Anderson Gem
terry. The body was delivered to the Cen
trail College, and Martin claims that Alex
ander paid him $40 the next day. From
the Ebenezer graveyard he helped steal the
body Of Wallace Johnson. Alexander. ac-
cording 10 the witness. said that the John
son body was of little value as IL had been
mansled at death and therefore paid him
brought him s. after its theft, and Alex
ander paid him the money, he said.
Martin said he helped TO steal the badly
OF Rose Neidlinger, and received SO for
his work from Alexander. He talked OF
other trips, and told OF an episode when
the ghouls were frightened away from
the German Catholic Cemetery.
Martin, when cross-examined, stuck
steadily to his first statements and be-
came exasperated at the persistence OF
Spaan in questioning. He admitted that he
had been arrested twice on trivial offenses
and also that the ghoulls always took
gin and whisky with them on their night
trips. He denied, though, that he had ever
become drunk while on trips to grave
yards.
HOTEL DE HOSS PROPRIETOR.
Douglass Case. proprietor of the Hotel
do Hoss livery stable. was witness fol-
the State. He testified that he had hired
horses and vehicles to Cantrell and received
the gay for them from Alexander.
Case testified that he had seen Cantrel
with a guncase I'm his hand at the barr
once. His best recollection was that Il
was night time, and he aforementioned
whether IL was taken away. He did no
know whether there was a gun in the cas-.
or not lmmaterial points in his TESTIMONY
were gone over before the witness haC
concluded his testimony against the accused
physician.
Cross-examination led Case to say: Eyes
Rufus Cantrell seemed to be a sport
never raised the price Of a rig to defraut