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Show Cemetery Watch Houses. Some workmen were'enrlng down a little stone bill In the corner of the cemetery. '"This Is one of the fw of (he cemetery ceme-tery watch houses," said the superintendent, superin-tendent, "left In America. With Its dlsappebiance only the Vermont' ones will remain. i "Cemeter) watch houses were built to prevent body snatching. Bodv snatching In the past, you know, was a ery common crfme. The watchers In ,the watch houses caught many a body snatcber crouched In a gi'avo feverishly hacking open a coffin byihls lantern's yellow light, '' "Nowadays physician's get their cadavers legally and body snatching Is an obsolete crime. But here and there in cemetery, corners stands a ruined watch house, a reminder or the days when jour mother's corpse was not safe." - |