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Show DECIDES A SKULL W IS NOT A CORPSE i I I Thompsonville, Conn., Aug. 30. ' . H That a skull Is not a corpse has been ' H decided hero after due- consideration JH byJudge Morris. The court by his ' ruling released tho sexton of tho . H Thompsonville cemetery and Arthur ' : H L. Plllsburg, a medical student, from jH Springfield, Mass., from the charge of body-snatching. ! tH It was shown in court that the sex- ' U ton and student removed a skull from -MM a grave. The court declared that the , )"M skull was only a portion of a corpse, i ;qM whoreas the statute under which the tH arrest was raado called for a wholo H body. Tho skull taken was that of j m an unidentified man who comnjltted H suicide by drowning and was burled I fM bv the town. No further action will j 'M be taken by tho authorities. M |