Show TIle Almsboe IlIveURaUeD Boston30 TheTewksbury Alms house hearing was continued Dr Dixwell witness for the prosecu Hon said they dissected as many as fifty bodies in year Special cases of alleged starvation he could not describe except that the bodies were much emaciated The only knowledge he had that the bodies came from the almshouse was obtained ob-tained from Andrews now dead S H Chase didnt know of any bodies being sold from the almshouse Pencil jvork was always made on the head of boards when the body was resurrected from the graveyard grave-yard Funeral services over the coffin filled with wood was an iso lated one General Butler asked for the books of the institution covering cover-ing the records of deaths burials and contracts back as far as 1878 which were furnished Witness Wit-ness Chase became excited and shook his fist at the committee and said the half had not been told The governor said the committee might call on the witness for the other half What he the governor knew was sufficient suffi-cient Charles H Dudley night watchman from November 1878 to July 1877 testified to the manner in which dead bodies and stores belonging be-longing to the instution were sur reptatiousiy removed at night in il boxes He requested information as to his duty A subofficer named Elliott told him You dont want to see too much that might be extra work in the dead house There are nights for which you will get fees but you mustnt say too much about it and if you wish to stay you must get inside the ring meaning the Marsh family The witness detailed many mysterious circumstances of the removal of trunks by relatives of the Marsh family and the disappearance disap-pearance of bodies from coffins which they had prepared for burial r |