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Show A BASKET OF ANCIENT BO' The Curious Discovery Made In u of a House, New York, Aug. 1). The J of the skeleton of a man iu the r corner of the attic of No. 3 St place, created comment ami &; sational rumors yesterday. Tfc is a three-story brick building, back to the first decade of thou On Monday morning Jlr. Son:! dealer in second-hand building i als, set a gang of men to work it down. James Kane, who ha rummaging in tho attic, kick human bone. He called the workmen, ami they dragged on: and time-stained clianipa filled with bones thrown inloos half wrapped in a yellow copy New York Courier and Enquirer, ruary 23, 1837. The skull was and bore evidence of the surgw in a hole three inches across cut right side. There were found attic a dozen or more of the lot; bags covered with bed-tiekinj! are used by surgeons in the sen fractures. It is probable that th' have lain in the attic siuce the doctor tumbled lliem into t ket and forgot all about them. I man Kilcline had the hones tain morgue, where they now await th consignment to potter's lield. |