The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1913-06-19
SHERIFF ASSIGNS EIGHT MEN
TO ASSIST IN PREVENTING
BODY-SNATCHING.
NO POISON FOUND NV|SCERA
The Reports Show Only Negative Re-
suits and No Foreign Elements,
Such as Mineral Poisons Found, but
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Presence of Disease Was Apparent.

Jacksonville, June 1S.-Five men at
night and three during the day are
guarding the grave OF the late E. o.
PAINTER in Evergreen cemetery, to
prevent the body being stolen by
ghouls, six of whom are reported to
be in the city with the intention of
tunneling into the grave and carrying
Off the remains for felonious purpos-
es. Mrs. Painter also Is spending
much of her time during the day be-
side the grave, and there is little
chance for any body-snatching at
present
The Painter family was informed
that six men had come to the city to
steal the body, that they were detec-
tives in the employ of large New
York agency. that they sneaked into
the city in pairs, but that the eagle
eyes of a local sleuth had detected
their presence, and he stood ready to
guard the grave against molestation.
Instead the family called in the sher-
iff and his force is doing the work
vidocq's Tale.
The six men are alleged to have
come to Savannah on the Atlantic
Coast Line, where they switched to
the Seaboard. Two alighted at Grand
Crossing, two at Main St, and two at
the Union derot, according to the tale
told the family The detectives saw
the two men with six valises, so the
tale goes. and that gave them away
to the yidocqs. who FASTENED to the
Painters with the ghoulish tale.
However, the regular minions of the
law were put on the job, and the
sleutll was seen skulking In the vicin.
ity OF the grave one night, and warn
ed that a load of buckshot would be
his fate Of he showed up again. He
has not been seen since. The guards
nave orders to shoot to kill
No Poison Found.
The reports of the examination of
the viscera of the late e. o. Painter,
which has been completed in Balti-
more by DR. Chas. CHASER and DIR.
Standish McCleary, showed no traces
of poison as result of the analysis
sent to this city, one to the Painter
family and one to the Barnett Ma
tional bank to become the possession
of one of the local insurance COM
panies, III care OF the bank, and JUS
tice G. D. Abbott, who has been act
ing as coroner in the case.
Through its entirety the reports
show only only negative results ard
that no foreign elements such as min
elal poisons were found. Bismuth,
stomach specific, was found to the
extent Of one-half grain. 1t was also
shown that T.. o. Painter had arte-
rial sclerosis, or hardening of the ar
teries to some degree. The later con-
dition was discovered as a result of
the pathological examination of the
brain, heart and kidneys, made by
DR.. McCleary and while the presence
OF the disease was quite apparent in
the analysis 1t is not thought it could
have been far enough aayanced to
nave caused death
The report which consisted Of ten
typewriter pages showed the care
iulness and exactness used in making
the analysis and records every step
taken by the physicians, from the
time the organs reached Baltimore
until the oath was taken before no
tary public.
Two Reports Made.
On account OF the interest In the
result OF the examination being divid-
cd between the immediate family OF
the deceased and the many insurance
companies, who held the million dol
lars worth of life insurance on the
life OF Painter, two reports were
made in duplicate, one to be the prop
erty of the Painter family and the
other that of the insurance compa-
MES. It was stated today that the
cost Of each OF the reports. made IN
Baltimore was $4,000, making total
of $4,000 for the work of the spe-