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Show PHILADELPHIA PRACTICES, A New York Htfttd correspondent from Philadelphia tells of the way the oflu'ials of the M'n;ue of the Quaker City manage matters. Thos. Munce, a wealthy old gentleman, disappeared from Pittsburg. His body was found in Schuylkill river at Philadelphia, and taken to thu Morgue by the corporation corpora-tion dead cart. Thence his remain were carried whither? The secjucl b'lls. friends notified the police of Philadelphia of his disappearance, and ottered one thousand dollars for his recovery, alive or dead. Through the number of Munce'a watch, lournl at a pawnbroker's shop and traced to tho driver of tho dead cart, his body was traced to the Morgue. The officers there in charge exhibited their regis-ter regis-ter book-s, showing that tho deceased hail been buried on the fifth of July, and produced a burial certificate to that effect. The officers went to the cemetery and found there had been no burial that day. The driver was then interrogated and confessed that the coroner, Thomas Baxter, had held the body. The medical college was next searched. At livst a house, connected con-nected with that interesting institution the University of Philadelphia, was inspected. A burly negro guarded the entrance, but gave way to the detectives. de-tectives. There, in a vat of liquor of some unknown composition, was discovered dis-covered twenty-live human bodies, of every shape, si.e, age, and color, and of both sexes apparently having been tumbled into the place promiscuously. ''The starved, the butchered, and the suicidal in that immense vat together awaiting the keen point of the dissecting knife!" The next step in order was to tike out the Iwlics and compare them with the printed description of the m Using man. To do this the officers were forced to go into the vat, and fish up one by one the diilerent corpses. 1'iually Munee's body was discovered. His friends at Pittsburgh were notified, and, taking the first train to Philadelphia, they recovered the remains of the beloved one and gave them Christian burial. The evidence elicited shows that the Ixxly remained at the Morgue but a short time, and was then transferred with the clothes, to an agent of the Medical Medi-cal College and sold to the students who consigned it to their regular soaking vat to remain until in proper condition to put under the scalpel. The statutes of Pennsylvania provide that the kxiies of all Grangers shall be buried, not scut to colleges: and an ordinance of Philadelphia requires the coroner to expose Kxlies in the Morgue not less than seventy-two hours for identification, while the clothes a iv to be kept tor a given length of time alter the burial of the bodies. These law have been di-rcrard-cd by the coroner and hi-deputies, and dead men have been tran-ferrvd to students, with the in-t indecent haste, whenever there was a fair chance to turn an "honest penny" thereby, without too great ri.-k. How many pennies have been turned will probably never appear. The solution of the problem would require an unknown un-known amount of research into liorri-, liorri-, HescvTL:-. the way. from the hour of sudden death and quick plunge into either river of the city of Philadelphia, lllJS undoubtedly been very straight to tiie M-'ivue, the vat, the dissecting knife, and finally to one of tho six phs underneath the University Uni-versity kiilclit:g. The requirement of svi-nee may demand an intimate ku"" ledge of the human frame; but the many atrocious and viilainors nuvles adopts! adop-ts! by medical student- to eeure suH-jr.-ts, and tb.e criminT; collusion of s' rv.Mits of tr.e p-'i'-e. as i!!ust:aicl ly this Pi.ilad. Iphia ca.-c. call for the nnt strini ut and explicit law; on the .-v.bj.Tt, and certain puui-iiment when ti o.-e la- are cvadl. What e.-:trse v.iii lo p-iP".i.d iv::h JTr. Tii. -ir..-- loxl- r. tl.e coroner eon-e- ru'd hi (he M'.-.n-v a:;'air. b.as not vn l-.'ui iua-ie k:--wu. Further hearing hear-ing was to be had. |