The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-02-07
WATCHED THE
DEATH RETURNS
Dr.. Alexander Kept the Grave
Robbers Posted.
PRICES PAID FOR cADAVERS
SENSATIONAL TESTIMONY AT
THE DOCTORS TRIAL.


Indianapolis. Ind, Feb. 6.-There was
a promise that there would be no lack
Of sensations in the testimony in the
trial of DR.. ]. c. Alexander today IN
the grave robbing cases. 4 parcel in
the possession of the detectives was in
troduced as evidence. The parcel con-
tanned two shrOuds found by the detec-
tives in the basement of the Central
college during one of the visits made
10 the place with search warrants. One
of the shrOuds was identified by a wo-
man who did the needlework as the
one made for Mrs. Catherine Doehring,
whose body was stolen from the Ger
man Catholic cemetery.
Samuel Martin, colored, who was
prominently identified with Cantren in
the grave robbing business. was the
flrst witness today. He first met DR..
Alexander at the latter's office last
June. he said. The doctor told him that
he wanted from seventeen to twenty
subjects for dissection, and would pay
$50 each. Martin said at this meeting
DR.. Alexander told Rufus Cantrell that
he would watch the death returns at
the board of health and would notify
Cantrell. The first trip, he said, was
in July when, with Cantrell and the
others. he went to the Anderson GEM
etery and secured the body of Glen
dora Gates and handed it over to the
Central college The next day DR.. AL
exander paid him $40.
His next trip was to the Ebenezer
graveyard. when the body of Wallace
Johnson was secured. DR.. Alexander
told him the subject was not 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
DR.. Alexander paid him 49, In addition
to these bodies. Martin said he got a
body at the insane hospital graveyard,
which DR.. Anderson said was good
subject
The witness assisted in raising the
body of Rose NeidIinger at the GEM
etery near Traders Point early in
August. The next day he saw DIR. AL
exander injecting fluid into the body.
For this body DR.. Alexander paid him
$40.
Walter Daniels, with yellow skin and
restless black eyes, followed Martin
He first met DR.. Alexander n COM
pany with CantreIl in July. He was
introduced to DIR. Alexander bv Can
trell as walter Daniels, from chi
cago, a man who would stick" Dan
iels said:
"Cantrell told HIM I had worked for
Thornton ]. Barnes, demonstrate Of
anatomy at the Northwestern college IN
Chicago. DR.. Alexander said ne was
glad that some one would stick, f2r the
boys had fallen down. Cantrell sa1d
bodies were not worth much IN Chi
cago, and DR.. Alexander said they were
worth but a dollar in New YoSK. He
said he had nothing on hand, but he
would watch the returns and let us
know when we would be needed. the
following Saturday night We went to
DR.. Alexander's Office and he told. us
there was a good colored subject in the
Anderson cemetery and he wanted uS
to go out and get il. I asked what my
share was. and he said So So we vert
out and got the body of Stella Gid
dleton- He said it was a good subject
and paid me So.
DanieTs testimony was not shak en
on cross examination.
Liveryman Case testified that DR..
Alexander had paid him $40 for rigs
rented by Cantrell. Charles Medieras,
a pawnbroker, said DR.. Alexander had
twice taken CantrelPs clothes out of
pawn and had paid him $50.
William Jones testified that he was
taken to DR.. Alexander's Office by Can
trell, where he made arrangements to
join the ghouls as a driver.
Jones said he took no part in the
robbing. merely watching the team on
the different expeditions. On one of
the trips to Anderson, he said, DIR. Al
exander drove up in his buggy and
talked with Cantrell. He said DR.. AL
exander spoke to all the men. The wit
ness said he had been paid money
twice by DR.. Alexander, and once the
doctor sent him money by Cantrell.