Year: 1878

TO he Citizens Of Cincinnati:


| did not suppose when called to your
city by message-the most shocking anC
horrible ever sent TO son-that / should
have occasion TO address you except tc
thank you for your solicitous kindness
and tender sympathy. That burden Il
heavy upon me this morning.


/ can only say for the children Of your
friend, thank you, thank you. God keep
your precious dead from the barbarous
touch Of the grave robber, and you from
that taste Of hell which comes with the
discovery Of fathers grave robbed and
the body hanging by the neck like that oi
4 dog, in the pit Of a medical college.


But the purpose Of this card is not TO
make any Acknowledgements for kind.
nesses received, but rather to fix, il l can,
the responsibility for this outrage where
it ought ultimately to rest.


We have been offered through the press
the sympathy Of the distinguished men
who constitute the Faculty Of the Ohio
Medical College. I have no satisfactory
evidence that any Of them knew whose
body they had; but l have the most con-
vincing evidence that they are covering
the guilty scoundrel. While they consent
to occupy this position, their adherence
is q pretence and thir sympathy is cant
and hypocrisy.


Who can doubt that il the officers OF
that institution had desired to secure the
arrest Of the guilty party, 1t would have
been accomplished before night on Thurs
day. The bodies brought there are pur.
chased and paid for by an officer Of the
college. The body.snatcher stands be-
fore him and takes from his hand the fee
for his hellish work. He Is not an occa.
sional visitant. He is often there, and 1t
il silly to say that he is an unknown.
After being tumbled like dung into that
shoot by the thief, some one inside
promptly elevates the body by wind
lass TO the dissecting.room. Who did It,
gentlemen Of the Faculty. Your Jani-
tor denied that i: had been upon
your tables-but the clean incision
into the carotid artery, the thread with
which II was ligatured, the injected veins,
prove him liar. Who made that Incl
sion and injected that body, gentlemen Of
the Faculty? The surgeons who exani-
ined his work say he was no bungler.
What has your demonstrator OF anatomy
TO say about this ? While he lay upon
your table, the long white beard, which
the hands OF infant grandchildren had
often stroked in love, was rudely shorn
from his face. Have you so little care
OF your college that an unseen and un-
known man may do all this? Who took
him from that table and hung him by the
neck in the pit? Was it TO hide il from
friends or 10 pass his body in your pick
ling yats for fall use2 For q reliable in.
formant states that an order had gone
out to gather bodies against your winter
term. Your Secretary has said, and l
can prove it over his denial, that be
thought he could name the man that did
liz. But he refuses my Just demand, that
be should do so. l denounce the man
who thinks he knows the guilty party,
and will not aid my search, re- the brother
Of that one who drew my father by the feet,
through broken glass and dirt, from his
honored grave. Have you advised him,
gentlemen Of the Faculty, that he ought
TO tell2 or did change Of purpose on this
subject come from conference with you?
You profess to the public that you are
extremely careful and solicitous that pri-
yate grayeyards shall not be violated. Do
you expect to foster 4 careful spirit 10
your grave robbers by covering them and
making yourselves party 10 the crime
when they violated your pretended in
structionsI Would you not give the pub
lie better evidence Of your sincerity ifyou
repudiated the men who, in their own
wrong Qfit was SOY, did this deed? have
not the composure TO state my case clear.
ly, but I think l have said enough: II
the Faculty would have Us believe them
clear Of knowing participation in this
crime, their conduct must be confornable
to reason. The law and the common
sense Of mankind hold him who conceals
the fruit Of crime, or aids the escape Of
the criminal, to partske Of the original
guilt. Very truly yours,


BEsJAMIs HARRISON.