Show A TRAFFIC IN CORPSES double address leads to a discovery A box that carried a load of two dead bodies A regular body steal ing traffic church fight in texas with fatal results washington feb zo 10 cwi owing ng to a misunderstanding of 0 address on a large box MX left at the baltimore ohio depot to be forwarded by express the existence of a trade in corpses for dissecting purposes was unearthed the box bore two addresses and the employee emp loyes ol of the express company were unable to decide as 29 to which address it should be sent cent to after the box had been at the express office all day the employed emp loyes forced its cover and one of them thrust in his hand hoping the contents would indicate whether the box should go to baltimore or detroit which were the two addresses add reses the employed caught hold of a human body th the box was then opened and found to contain the bodies of two women at first it appeared that murder had been committed and that the bodies of the victims were being shipped out of town the bodies were nude and one of them was that ot of an old colored woman the other one seemed to be the corpse of a young while woman after working all day the detectives came to the conclusion that the bodies were shipped by grave robbers it was learned that a regular system for shipping bodies stolen from the cemeteries around washington exists the work has been carried on with astonishing boldness and dozens of bodies have been sent out of town recently large boxes sent by the same set of men have been forwarded to new haven hartford baltimore and other cities some we were re so heavy as to lead cad to the the belief that they contained three or four bodies |