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PATIENTS BUTCHERED,?dA Chicago Hoi.'iul Supplier Subjectsfor DlMCCtKKi.s,ntrsu-iieidedtieChu aoo, Jan. 10.—A re (he I did a teetif ttie county institution at Donning* I* (To red fur sale to medical college*, like cattle, and then slaughtered for Hie In a dissecting room, If a buyer lafound ?la there one ward In the asylumknown as the '‘killer*1 ward, whore miserable candidates for dissection are put so they cun lie allowed to disappear—wander off1, or “cacune, n«the records read ?Is anybody's kinsman, who happens to be in that ward of the Cook county hospital because of Intirtuatieft, likelyto be murdered for the price which an official at Dunning can ul tain for thecorpse ?Dr, Wot.Smith asks these questions and out of his own eiperlence answer* them affirmatively*He la the man who stole the bodied fnmi the Dunning morgue,October 24, with theuld of Nfghtwaiehman Ulrich*He Is demountrator of anatomy at the American betool of Osteopathy, Kirksvllle, Mo He la a graduate of the University id of ErtlnburK-1*- Ilia attainments and character make any statement by him worthy serious consideration.lie Is Indicted in Clt;H»k county for 10 stealing bodies from the county char-e-1 rial house, and Sheriff Pease and Pres-*y ident Mealy are now doing their ut most in bringing him hack to Chicago rlt;’ tu answer to the charge of body* h* snatch tog.‘i - He Is coming, if Governor Stone, of ig M Issuurl, says he Las to* hut mean* while Dr. Smith has some luforma-tlon for the public relative to grayercrimea.'h Wan John Humpel, one of the Dun-si nlng Inmate*, who was cheated of his is hjraye by that midnight raid, killedJ® by forcerDr. Smith asks that also. if Bo do ill ids ass'Hslate professor* at u- the Klrksvilte institution.The reason they ask It Is that theI® body which Is now oo the dissecting-le tables of the American college or oa-tenpathy, gives evidence that the man Hi did not die-of acute mania, a* the ir county records allege, nor of cnn*uoip-le Hon, as we printed at the time of the ® theft, but from a shock and cone us-ie si on delivered by blows upon the hack I* of hla head and other savage Injuries to tils body, at *4 was offered my own selection of »* subjects among the living patients of u. the Uook county institution, while I wm* on the ground securing that non-ig stgninent of bodies,1* says Dr, Smith. if» “The proposal came from one In au-r- thorltydo the institution. lie told me I could go In the killer ward1 and id pick out any Interesting cases ’on the ir hoof/and that within 24 hour ho Of would have them ‘filed for* me g put Into trunks and shipped tu uie for ISO a head, sr “The proposal tilled me with unut-^d terahle horror, which my declaration a* must carry to every une who reads it, and 1 put a prompt quiet us on the of-►1- flcla/fl revelation by assuring him al that I was not in that sort of busl-ld ness*re “This offer of butchering patient* ra for use in my college was made while Hi we were In the morgue looking over - material*ir *■ ] was horrified, I wan given toto understand that the patient* would m be supplied to my order.“They would tie killed/1mMils, W if.i.mas,- Fiona and organ
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Salem Daily Capital Journal
Salem, Oregon, US
Mon, Jan 10, 1898
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