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Show SAWED THROUCH A CORPSE. Th 8erin Charg. Brought Against a Cemetery Superintendent. New York, Oct. .-Superintendent trJ, Schneider. of St. John's cemetery, Middle Village, was accused some time ago by Herman Heintz, a discharged grave-digger, of sawing the corpse of bervis Gentil in two in order to make room for the foundations of a headstone. Heintz alleged that Schneider dug down to the coffin, and, having found he made a miscalculation, instead of O'gging back further he deliberately sawed off about eighteen inches of the coffin and body. Miss Gcntil, a daughter daugh-ter of the dead man, went to the cemetery cem-etery to investigate the story. She insisted in-sisted on the grave being opened, and tinaily Superintendent Schneider put a man at work to exhume the body. During the work the superintendent, while they were engaged in. loud argument, argu-ment, got too near the edge of the opening open-ing and the edge caved in, almost burying bury-ing the workman. He was dug out and then another man resumed the work. hen the box was reached it was found to be seventeen inches short. Miss Orentil insisted on the box being opeued, although Schneider and a lawyer tried hard to dissuade her. When the cover was removed a ghastly sight met the gaze of the onlookers. Jammed in indiscriminately in-discriminately in the box were what appeared to be the remains of three or four bodies, with a number of skulls scattered about and mixed with brick and mortar, which had been cast aside in building the foundation for the head-' stone. Miss Gentil contemplates a criminal prosecution. |