| Show D ILI AR E ROBBE dd BIR 1717 H 0 U L S R PA w wholesale work of Iff uinam jackall Jac feals arouses outraged d residents of indianapolis n dian di anapolis apoll i S the most amazing story of ghoul leh ish vandalism ever told in connection with any medical college in the civil iced world Is being recited by bitnes es in the case against dr joseph C alexander now on trial at ind anapo lis on the charge of 0 being the chief in eligator eti sti gator of wholesale grave robberies the prosecuting attorney declares that he will prove that at least 1200 1 graves were despoiled by the human jackals said to have been employed by alexander and that more than u bodies of men women and children were pickled in the vats of the medical colleges and were cut to pieces by boisterous medical stu dents and tho the remains dumped into cans and carted off for disposal as garbage there Is no telling how many daml lies of the indiana city have now angly and involuntarily contributed their beloved dead to alexander alexanders s chamber of horrors the outrage is po BO widespread and affects so many families some of them of high social standing and great wealth and in jf luence luence that a fear is expressed that the he medical college itself may be wiped out of existence j the state declares that it will show that hat it was under dr alexanders direction that a halt half dozen corpses stripped of their shrouds were taken atrom ney am the vats and thrown into an alley when the investigation of the police drew too close a scrutiny to the th e affairs of the college over whose dis bacting room dr alexander presided the state will insist that dr alex jander under himself assisted in the mid night ight robberies and drove to various ed cemeteries eme surrounding indianapolis land not only directed which graves were to be despoiled but ass assisted sted in ithe the work as well facts also will be brought to light lit t la Is said to indicate that dr alexan der er was the head of the business which developed later into an dished traffic in human hunan cadavers the cemeteries in the neighborhood of in wana an r polls supplying dissecting ma a orial for the colleges of surrounding cities the body dr alexander is special cally accused of stealing wase that ol 01 a hose rose Neld linger which had been beer aken a from the coffin coflin and had beer uriel again it was vias through rufus cantrell a liebro that the truth finally reached the grand jury the revelation made by Cartre Cart reIl II so startled the comman ity that scores of graces graies were exam ined to ascertain if the bodies of rela alve remained cantrell an tr e I 1 I 1 con T ased that more than 1200 1 2 bodies had been bee i tal en from graves tor for the dissecting tables of colleges in indianapolis and other cities he ile said that col ages from new york to san Francis francisco izo had bad been sup plied by the gang of grave robbers seven men including tl e a mentioned were arrested as a result of cantrell a revelations one of the most pati betic instances of grave robbery referred re erred to the re moval boval of the body of miss glendora G afes les a beautiful young woman of t twenty cuty who had died after a brief illness the body of pretty sarah matthews was another which was tal en from us its grave and dissected without the knowledge or consent of the girl a relatives shortly before cantrell a arrest he went to a small indiana cita cit tor for the purpose ol 01 pillaging graveyards there on bis his return he found a message from dr alexander awaiting him the demonstrator of the college wanted a grave robbed that night cantrell demurred but finally consented to undertake the job in spite of his ness it was dark in the graveyard he could not see the face of his victim he did not care to then her identity did not matter to him but when the body was stretched on oil a slab in the medical college cantrell turned on the light in its glare he saw the face of stella middleton he did not I 1 now until then that she had died during his absence then and there he says he vowed to end his worl he found a way to notify the relatives of his sweetheart where her body could be found when his continued exposures of the fact led to arrest he confessed at the trial there have been adais made and statements advanced that brought tears to the eyes of a hundred men who were brothers or fathers of girls and ft omen whose graves had been desecrated and ft hose bodies were torn from th their el r resting places to form material tor for the dissecting knives oi ok medical stu dents women in the courtroom from time to time added gaeir sobs and at moments even cantrell king of the ghouls felt the sorrow and hesitated in his answers to ane brusque ques t ons of the lawyers mason a witness test fled that he found the body of the th woman whom hom he bad had loved tor for fifteen years thrust roughly in a bariel ban el in tue medical college was as telling the grew some facts that surrounded the find ing of his wife a corpse he said we went to the carrels there were t least a dozen of them we looked into each the heads of the bodies coming to the surface of the brine the moment that the heavy stone cohering coi ering was removed finally after we had examined six cemeteries were desecrated twelve hundred bod es were taken bod es of women and children a olen robber es covered five years negro ghouls were employed bod cod es sh aped to med cal colleges all over the country prominent ur geons in ind anapo lis implicated I 1 i eight barrels I 1 saw a face in one that made my heart stop beating there was a scar sear on the cheek I 1 knew that scar my wife had carried it for 12 years I 1 ordered the body lifted from the barrel in a moment the sickening 04 0 04 4 ic A X f DP rola paw realization came that I 1 had come to the end of my search I 1 had recovered my wife a corpse I 1 I 1 told dr alexander then and I 1 tell him now that if this court fa Is te to pun sh h in I 1 will seek just vengeance for his terrible desecrate dese crat on myself I 1 w 11 II take the law into my own hands |
