The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-08-27
CHILD's BODY NUTILATE0
Margaret KuIlEeWind Killed by
Automobile, Victim Of GhouIs.
Coffin Of Eigtt-Year-Old Profaned at
Rernardsville, N. BODY Dug
Up ard RebUried by VandaIs.

Bernardsville, n. Through the
elimination of the body of Margaret
Kuhlewind, one of the victims Of the
fatal automobile wreck near Ber-
nardsville ten days before, it became
known that within few hours after
the interment fiend had desecrated
the grave. The body Of the child
had been dug up and mutilated.
When he had Finished his ghouIish
work the brute threw the body back
into the coffin and cast it into the
grave. But in replacing the dirt and
they had been left, and this led to the
exhuming of the body
The child was killed on August 4
while riding in the automobile of
Grant B. Schley, the broker. Thomas
Clark, Mr.. schley's chauffeur. had
picked up a party including the little
girl to give them ride. He ran into
telegraph pole and the child was
thrown out with the others Her
death was instantaneous. Clark was
also killed instantly and Ralph Hazel
ton, another occupant of the car, died
the next day in hospital, while Miss
Adelaide Pepper, of Brooklyn, and
Miss Anna Kuhlewind, sister of
little Margaret, were seriously in
jured
Three days later the body of the
child was buried in ST. Demands
Episcopal Cemetery. where for years
the dead of the parish have lain un-
disturbed. When the last word of the
funeral service had been spoken the
superintendent took the many floral
offerings and placed them on the
grave. He banked them higher at
the head OF the grave than at the
foot
While making his rounds the fol-
lowing morning the superintendent
saw that the flowers had been dis
placed. He looked, and the banking
of the grave, which he had attended
to, did not seem the same He be-
came convinced that some one had
been meddling.
Whlle there was no proof that the
grave had been actually opened, he
reported the matter to William r.
Bonfeld, one of the Cemetery Com
mittee. Mr.. Bonfield decided to do
nothing until Richard V. Lindabury,
a lawyer, of New York City, who is
chairman of the Cemetery Commit
tee, returned to Bernardsyille. Mr..
Lindabury arrived and ordered that
the grave be opened
The aged father of the little girl
was asked to be present, as was the
undertaken, Isaiah Bower. When the
outer box of the coffin was reached it
was apparent that the grave had been
disturbed. The box had been secure
ly fastened by the undertaken, but
the lid was now found to be loose.
Then the coffin was taken out, and it,
too, showed signs of ghoul's work.
1t was not, however, until the coffin
was opened that the whole horror
was unfolded.
The little body was found to have
been thrown back into the coffin with
the shroud nearly torn from it. No
care had been used, and the casket.
large for the child, had been tossed
back into the grave. The body had
slid to the foot of the coffin and was
huddled in heap
The examination showed that the
fiend had taken the body from the
coffin and, using the under side of
the lid of the outer box as an operat-
ing table, had made slash with
knife in a circular manner and then
removal the vital organs which he
wanted.