Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-23
JUDGE BINGHAM SENDS
LAWYER TO WILMINGTON
Wants to Know What Rumors In
Connection With ELIMINATION of
Wife's Body Signify.
NO LIGHT SHED ON SITUATION
Although There Is Much to Support
Opinion That Remains Have Been
Disinterred, There Is Nothing OFF,
cial to Substantiato 1t.

rRv A,.oo,at.d p,.,,1

tBy Associated ProBa.1
WILMINGTON, N. c., September 33.-
Shepard Bryan. an attorney OF Atlanta,
arrived here to-day to represent Judge
Robert W. Bingham. of Louisville, KY,
in any proceedings involving tho OK
humation OF the body Of Mrs. Bingham,
who was Mrs. Henry NJ. Flagler. and
who died at her homo In Louisville on
July 27 and was buried on the Kenan
family plot here July 81 last.
Mr.. Bryan, Immediately on his ar
rival here. arranged for meetings with
tho health officials. through whose Of
hce permit to exhume the body must
pass. and held consultations with DR..
Arnold Stovall. county physician. What
transpired at these meetings is not
given out.
The lawyer stated that he came here
10 investigate the rumors that have
sone out relative to exhumation or
contemplated exhumatIon, and to pro-
tect the interests Of Judge Bingham In
any eventuality. He stated that his
sired to know what the affair sIgni-
fed.
MANY RUMoRs IN CASE
NOT AUTHENTICATED
Statements as to whether a permit
to exhume had been issued, whether
tho body had been taken out of tho
grave and an autopsy held, or whether
such would be done. if not already
done. have not been issued, and ru-
mors that the body was removed from
the grave during Tuesday night have
not been authenticated
1t Is pointed out that tho body cou1d
not legally have been touched unless
an afhdavit were filed with a Judge OF
superior Court, on which a judicial
oroer could be made for exhumatiop
or unless the family of the deceased
maze the request for exhumatfon. In
either case permit would necessarily
issue from the health office, whose head
steadfastly declines to say whether n
permit has been issued or not. II is
further stated that the family, in thi.
instance is Judge Bingham, and nobody V
else would have legal right to request
the exhumation. and any one doing so
ana ordering the body exhumed. unless
judicial order had been made on affi
davit. would be guilty OF q felony un-
der the laws of North Carolina.
NO DEFINITE STATEMENT
FROM ANY SOURCE
III SO Iar as definite statement from
any source that would clear up tho
situation. there is no more light on
the affair now than there was three
days ago. and although there is much
to support the opinion held by many
that the body really has been disin-
TERED. there is nothing official to sub
stantiate 1t.
Two guards are on duty each night
at the grave. and trespassers are strict
ly warned away during the day by
cemetery officials. the guards being en-
ployed by the Kenun family and the
cemetery officials arc merely enforcing
rules about private lots in the ceme-
terry.
Mr.. Bryan when asked tonight what
he had found since his arrival In the
city, stated that he had been unable 10
discover anything more than mass OF
rumors, and that II he discovered any
thing. he had no power to act, but
would communicate with counsel in
Louisville.
Kline Ksrs advance iI00 October /. Buy
now.--Ady. .tlt. IitF7hIe