Davis County Clipper | 1902-10-03 | Page 2 | Body Snatchers Captured

BODY SNATCHERS CAPTURED wholesale desecration of graven it IL indi an oplin indiana Is discovered the wholesale robbery of graves in the cemeteries about indianapolis ind was brought to a close monday by the arrest of a gang of seven negroes degroes warrants were also issued for a prominent physician tile tho demonstrator of anatomy in a local medical college in which two stolen bodies were found about ten days ago an in terne in the college and the white janitor of the college rufus cantrell one of the made a complete confession and implicated the others ne he said the physician accompanied the negroes on several of the grave robbing expeditions the police say the ope operations radons of the gang were on a larger scale than any gang in the state ever attempted before upward of ono one hundred graves it is said have been robbed the detectives tec tives say the negroes wt ate e armed with shotguns and equipped with borses and wagons with which to do dothe the work the bodies were sold to different colleges which opened their winter terms within the last week