Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-09-04


"Thre is one spot that all mankind
keep hallowed-the last resting place
Of its dead-the grave. whether it be
Christian, Jew or gentle, civilized or
barbarian, man has always held sacred
the spot where all that is mortal rests
in Its last sleep. To commemorate that
spot mankind has always placed upon it
some mark which all respect and revere.
Whether that work be a costly shaft of
marble or the humble cross upon which
the Redeemer died, all humanity bows
in silence and does homage.
EVER HAVE CREPT
THERE TO MOURN"
with bleeding heart and trembling
limbs mothers, fathers, sons, daughters,
husbands and wives, have crept to that
spot and mOurned in silence since time
immemorial. They have placed on that
spot the most costly gifts in human ad-
miration: they have bent their knees and
wept; they have poured forth in prayer
and on that spot many have laid down
and died in grief. So great is the natu-
raj instinct to there give vent to grief
that dogs have crept to 1t and laid
down their lives on the graves of their
masters
There is one offense at which all man
kind shrinks in adherence There is one
offense which the most depraved can not
countenance. It is the dissertation Of the
= grave for which the human tongue has
no name to adequately describe.
Yet, my friends, this is an ofense
that has been committed by a member
of the Marion county republican ma
chine. a republican officeholder, the man
to whom the republican county officials
awarded the contract for the burial of
our peuper dead. Arthur c. Whiteside.
1t is a fair inference that the con
tract was given to him because he had
well served his party. In it's published
report of May IA, 1919, the state board
of accounts, after making an investiga-
ton of this affair, stated that Whiteside
buried a dog named woody" with the
bodies of three babies; that he put bodies
in graves ranging from eleven TO eight
cen inches deep and such that rodents
and vermin entered and made nests in
them; that he collected money from the
county for the burial Of persons whose
relatives also raid for their burial
REPORT DRAWS BACK
HORROR CURTAIN.
This report SAYS in part
Before this grave was opened two
holes were noticed running from the
surface of the ground down into the
coffin. The top and insides could easily
be viewed from the surface, and It was
plain to be seen that these holes ran into
the coffin, and 1t was plain to be seen
that these holes had been used by yer
min.
We were told By party that they
had seen groundhogs and a large snake
running into the grave" This grave
when opened. showed a skeleton which
had been too long for the coffin. as the
feet had been damned down into the
same. and the head had been damned to
the left as 1t was almost turned to the
shoulder. This had evidently been a
rendezvous Of yermin. for to the left OF
The skull could be seen a nest made of
weed stems and wheat straw gathered
from nearby wheat field No box was
used to place the coffin In This was
grave no. IS
We also opened grave which con-
tanned eleven small boxes. in which were
buried the bodies Of eleven babies. These
boxes were exceedingly crude, hand made
bottom Of the grave and three on top
Of the eight
"Of the cases for which claims have
been filed and allowances made against
the county, the report reads:
We find eleven in which no service
whatever was performed by Mr.. White
side, for the reason that the bodies were
delivered by him TO the state anatomical
board for distribution to various medical
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