Logan Republican | 1902-10-02 | Page 2 | Body Snatchers Captured

BODY SNATCHERS CAPTURED, Whaleiala Dmctretlon or Uravea Ik Indl-anoplla, Indl-anoplla, Iadlana, U HUcovered. The wholesale robbery of graves In the cemeteries about Indianapolis, Ind., was brought to a close Monday by the arrest of a gang of seven negroes. Warrants wero also Issued for u prominent physician, the demonstrator demon-strator of .anatomy In a local medical college, in which two stolen bodies were found about ten days ago; an interne in-terne in the collego cud the white janitor of the. college. Itufus Cantrell, one of the negroes made a complete confession and implicated impli-cated the others. He mid the physician ..ccompnnled the negroes on several of the grave robbing expeditions. The police say the operations of the gang were on a larger scale than any gang In the state ever attempted before. be-fore. Upward of one hundred graves, it is said, have been robbed. The detectives de-tectives say the negroes wt,.c armed with shotguns and equipped with horses hor-ses and wagons with which to do the work. The bodies wore sold to different differ-ent colleges which opened their winter terms within the Inst week.