Show of the halt lake rolice it has been evident fur some tinta that bembera of the bait lane bolice force are a brutal lot of chaky bums but a case has recently boino lo 10 light that proves they are a nouh lot and investigation may land members in the penitentiary the tribune tells ahti story as follows richard M johnson aed 46 and unmarried was run into the aug friday night ha was all tup to 1 a in sunday and ate three hearty meals on but at daylight sunday morning he liia dead coroner harris 1113 immediately called inand not un inquest necessary he hadded the body over to undertakers obedient to instructions or intimation frair lie chief of police the facts are withheld aiom public so that reporters on the police were careful to see atiat the kept quiet the buried johnson monday without ano ity ln and it unil morlin that jehnwn who lias here shirly fiete 3 ears and is widely known learned ahat hia da dead lie biad cs sexton faylor exhume lie body to hi and grief by 1 l only in airty shirts a i a r if a d a I 1 coll in waa only a bo in ud with no lining ihor ware seve isil lalit 0 tle let fidei but over the liht belvia were two bresli incisions T ail sewed up as though b y one abo knew bow to eccli things edwin johnson the karpath warpath to find out who did the cutting and why no inquest waa held the polices knew nothing a bout it his honor the mayor could not tell and the undertakers said that chev bad the body for burial and neither noticed the incision in the abdomen mr boss said we took charge of alie re mains at the inquest ot coroner harris when we got ali e body it was clad only in a flannel chirt and socks we did not put the body in a shroud as the city allows 15 for burying the pauper dead and out of that fiam we are compelled to pay tor the ground and the coffin which leaves us a tery email margin for the other necessary expenses I 1 am gure that no operation bad been performed on the body up to the time we delivered it to the grave diggers at the city cemetery we left it there with them and so do not know what after that we are as much in the dark as anyone and as the affair has placed our firm in a bad light with the public we hope that the cordner will give the matter a thorough calion and if possible locate the blame where it belongs dr meacham said he did not touch the body and then these interesting facts were learned that the body was buried without a physicians certificate and was exhumed without permission of the health authorities an inquest will be held today to day at 10 a m on edwin johnsons demand |