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Show STOLEN FROM MORGUE. Ghouls In Indlannpolls Unusually Bold in Stealing Bodies to Bell to Medical Colleges. Indlannpolls, lnd , Oct. II From information in-formation furnished by Hiifus Cantrlll and Walter Daniels, negroes under arrest ar-rest charged with grave-robbing, warrants war-rants were Issued toduy by Prosecutor Collins for the urrest of Harry Speer, propiletor of the Mount Jackson ceme-ler, ceme-ler, Adam AliH and Cornelius Jones, watchmen nt the Mount Jackson cemetery, ceme-tery, and C. II, Willis, u nesrn undertaker. under-taker. The warrants chnrgrd Speer, Ault and Jnuen with dtstuiblng a grave and Willis with obtaining mone) under false pretenses. Cantrlll sn thnt the three Mount Jaclcs.m men uided In the theft of several bodies by accepting money tu mm. In nwuy thu nights the graves wero jobbed Willis, tho undertaker, Is i hirge.l with adopting t",5 from lesuin Donnell, one of tho negroes now under unest fm the burial of Donnell wife, and then taking the body to a medical col-lege col-lege Donnell sa)s that after tho funeral fu-neral services went held la the morgue nt Willie's establishment the body was taken fiom the cofrin before Iho pull-bearers pull-bearers temoved It tn the heurse, Donnell Don-nell s.i)s that all arrangements fm the funeral wete In the undertaker's hands and no one followed the hear so to tho eemeter). James Harvey, a former cinpIoee of Willis but now conneited with another llrm of negio undertaken, la churgud with complicity In tho theft of Mrs Donnell s !ud Iln wns anested this afternoon. Canttlll was driving the he.irw for Wl'lls and Detectlvis Nash and Manning havo In theli iiossesslnn n list of witnesses who will testify that he drove directly to a North Indianapolis Indianap-olis rmdhouse nnd begun .Linking, When under the lnHumcc of liquor he told the stor about thu theft of the body and shownl Ihe impt collln to several people lit the madhouse 'ihe bod) was supposed to have been burled In the Mik Creek eineter) Donnell was accused several d is ago of stealing tho body of his own wife, but ho denied tho charge and later learned fiom Cantrlll ll.ut the buly had been soil to ii medical college, Theic Is no re ur. showing lhat ihe body of Mrs Donnell was ever burled |