Show i ' V 8A THE OGDEN (UTAH) STAN D $ ER ARD-EXAMI- N SUNDAY MORNING 1861 Grave Robbings Stunned Salt Lake Offender Banished to Island in Lake By HOWARD S BENEDICT SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — “He’s caked! By God he’s naked! And look there’s no coffin!” George Clawson cried as he looked into his brother Moroni’s grave “Those fiends at the police sta tion could have at least given him a decent burial even if he was a criminal” George muttered as he jumped into the grave to pick up the body George and a friend had ridden from Willow Creek Utah to claim the body of Moroni w ho had been witness my innocence!” Heath grabbed the gravedigger by the throat and shook him It took only a minute to choke a confession out of him He said he had been robbing graves for six years He sold most of the clothing and chopped up the coffins for kindling Utah) The shocking news spread shot by police the previous week he promised to look Into the mat- quickly and aroused the people of Salt Lake The recovered burial while he was escaping from a ter robes were placed in the County C Church sexton who Little J stagecoach holdup and Courthouse had hundreds Moroni’s funeral performed Rode to Station service told Sgt Heath he had thronged there to examine them George placed the body in a seen the body of the bandit — Several items of clothing were wagon covered it with a blanket with clothes and coffin —lowered identified and the aroused people became even more angry and rode to the police station to into the grave Police locked Baptiste in the Heath went to the home of the complain about the burial of the jail to protect basement — betJean Baptiste Police Sgt Henry Heath who gravedigger him mob violence from ter known as John the Baptist had made arrangements for was bis home not Graves but Identified Baptiste Moroni’s funeral when no one wife admitted Heath She was too Baptiste was arrested Dec 23 to answer ques- 1861 claimed the body was surprised The next day police placed “I personally saw that he had tions so Heath waited the grave- him in a flat wagon covered him clothes and a coffin" he said digger’s return with a blanket and secretly took “Something must have happened Noticed Boxes him to the cemetery where he to them” more than 200 graves identified The sergeant noticed He told George to go home and several police boxes hacKrobbed he in the house large When police released this inHe poked into one near his chair and found it filled with burial formation the people cried for robes He looked in all the other Baptiste’s life Meanwhile several persons boxes and found more robes Heath went immediately to the called for the digging up and cemetery to hunt John the Bap- “proper reburial” of all the bodies tist He found the small hunch- in the cemetery Save Homart White Enamel This prompted Brigham Young backed gravedigger filling a grave of the Mormon Church and leader on a snowy hillside most powerful man in the terri“You’re under arrest for grave “PROTECTION PLUS SERVICE" of Utah to issue this statesaid tory fell Baptiste robbery” Heath SINCE 1929 ment: to his knees and pleaded: “In the case of John the Bap“No! No! I call upon God to tist I am unable to think of anyChroma-plate- d one being so low as to do hardware a mean such contemptible Fit any standard size toilet damnable trick I have three sisters in the graveyard in this city (It's gone) and two wives and several chilRegularly 549 I have not been to open dren If You Wave j DANDRUFF of their graves to see whethany Clean sanitary Hardwood stock primer filler enamel were robbed and I do not er they PROBLEM WHY DON'T mean to do so I gave them as Closed front style Easy to keep gleaming bright See this good a burial as I could and in YOU burying our dead we all have try value now! made everything as agreeable comfortable as we could for and Buy it at Your Favorlta Drug We have done our duty them 2231 Washington in this particular and I for one Department or Grocery Store JLHIiJ Blvd Dial am satisfied” People accepted his advice and the clamor for reburial quieted But it was not so easy to dispose of John the Baptist The big problem was the absence of a law against grave robbing feeble-minde- 161! £3? 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The other accused murderer convict William Walter 21 will LOOSE FALSE have a preliminary hearing at 10 am July 6 He was accused Can be made snug and comfortable of stabbing to death Edwin J in thirty minutes per plate Fisher 58 Murray prison boiler room officer last Wednesday are made from RELINZ IS same the dentures Using plastic GUARANTEED TO LAST THE LIFE OF DENTAL PLATES Come in and enjoy dental plates again Dental Postal Receipts Up and teeth replaced while you wait plates repaired SALT LAKE CITY (AP)— The A 9 m a Week — Evenings by Appointment Six Days Open Post Office here said yesterday its receipts for May were $339053 AMERICAN DENTAL REPAIR LAB — $2452 above the same month Phone Room 408 Kiesel Bldg Ogden Utah 1 3-53- 31 f '' 4 s ''j'''' Z1 Sunday: a man for such a “To hang deed would not satisfy my feelings What shall we do with him? Shoot him? No that would do no good to anyone but himself Would you imprison him during life? That would do nobody any good What I would do with him came to me quickly after I heard of the circumstance — I would make him a fugitive and a vagabond upon earth This would be my sentence but probably the people would not want this done” The people again accepted Young’s word and a week later Judge Smith said to Baptiste in INSURANCE TOILET SEAT — certainly would kill him He decided to return the gravedigger to jail while he thought over the question Brigham Young again gave his advice in a sermon the following d 1955 — easin' Disappeared (Editor’s Note: In December 1861 Salt Lake City residents were shocked when they heard a gravedigger had been robbing graves in the city cemetery How the ghoul was caught and punished is recalled by The Associated Press in the third of a series on tales of early JUNE 5 |