The Evening Post, New York, New York, 27 Sep 1842, p2:
HORRID DESECRATION OF A GRAVE
Mr William Davis, tailor, a well known resident of this city, formerly of Fifth street near Minor, and recently of Washington street, West Philadelphia, died on Thursday last of bilious fever, after an illness of five days. His remains were interred on Friday afternoon in the Episcopal burial ground in Hamilton village. Early on Saturday morning the Sexton discovered that the grave had been opened, the coffin broken open with an axe, and the body carried off. The shroud and burial clothes and pieces of the coffin,w ere scattered over the churchyard, and the grave left unfilled.
The circumstance created the most intense feeling of horror int he vicinity, and of course the deepest distress among the family, relatives and friends of the deceased. A son of Mr. D. and several friends immediately set to work to discover the body, and trace and ferret out the perpetrators of the outrage. The police of West Philadelphia were put upon the alert, and the city police informed of the occurrence as soon as possible. Application was made to the different medical colleges by High Constable Young and Captain Bennett, and every facility afford the officers by the gentlemen connected with those institutions. The body was discovered in the course of the day at the private dissecting room of a distinguished anatomist, and taken in charge by the son of the deceased. The anatomist alluded to is out of the city and cannot have known anything of the affair. His man alone is to blame, and every effort is being made to have this body-snatcher and his accomplices arrested. -- Philadelphia Times.
HORRID DESECRATION OF A GRAVE
Mr William Davis, tailor, a well known resident of this city, formerly of Fifth street near Minor, and recently of Washington street, West Philadelphia, died on Thursday last of bilious fever, after an illness of five days. His remains were interred on Friday afternoon in the Episcopal burial ground in Hamilton village. Early on Saturday morning the Sexton discovered that the grave had been opened, the coffin broken open with an axe, and the body carried off. The shroud and burial clothes and pieces of the coffin,w ere scattered over the churchyard, and the grave left unfilled.
The circumstance created the most intense feeling of horror int he vicinity, and of course the deepest distress among the family, relatives and friends of the deceased. A son of Mr. D. and several friends immediately set to work to discover the body, and trace and ferret out the perpetrators of the outrage. The police of West Philadelphia were put upon the alert, and the city police informed of the occurrence as soon as possible. Application was made to the different medical colleges by High Constable Young and Captain Bennett, and every facility afford the officers by the gentlemen connected with those institutions. The body was discovered in the course of the day at the private dissecting room of a distinguished anatomist, and taken in charge by the son of the deceased. The anatomist alluded to is out of the city and cannot have known anything of the affair. His man alone is to blame, and every effort is being made to have this body-snatcher and his accomplices arrested. -- Philadelphia Times.
The Evening Post, New York, New York, 27 Sep 1842, p2:
HORRID DESECRATION OF A GRAVE
Mr William Davis, tailor, a well known resident of this city, formerly of Fifth street near Minor, and recently of Washington street, West Philadelphia, died on Thursday last of bilious fever, after an illness of five days. His remains were interred on Friday afternoon in the Episcopal burial ground in Hamilton village. Early on Saturday morning the Sexton discovered that the grave had been opened, the coffin broken open with an axe, and the body carried off. The shroud and burial clothes and pieces of the coffin,w ere scattered over the churchyard, and the grave left unfilled.
The circumstance created the most intense feeling of horror int he vicinity, and of course the deepest distress among the family, relatives and friends of the deceased. A son of Mr. D. and several friends immediately set to work to discover the body, and trace and ferret out the perpetrators of the outrage. The police of West Philadelphia were put upon the alert, and the city police informed of the occurrence as soon as possible. Application was made to the different medical colleges by High Constable Young and Captain Bennett, and every facility afford the officers by the gentlemen connected with those institutions. The body was discovered in the course of the day at the private dissecting room of a distinguished anatomist, and taken in charge by the son of the deceased. The anatomist alluded to is out of the city and cannot have known anything of the affair. His man alone is to blame, and every effort is being made to have this body-snatcher and his accomplices arrested. -- Philadelphia Times.
HORRID DESECRATION OF A GRAVE
Mr William Davis, tailor, a well known resident of this city, formerly of Fifth street near Minor, and recently of Washington street, West Philadelphia, died on Thursday last of bilious fever, after an illness of five days. His remains were interred on Friday afternoon in the Episcopal burial ground in Hamilton village. Early on Saturday morning the Sexton discovered that the grave had been opened, the coffin broken open with an axe, and the body carried off. The shroud and burial clothes and pieces of the coffin,w ere scattered over the churchyard, and the grave left unfilled.
The circumstance created the most intense feeling of horror int he vicinity, and of course the deepest distress among the family, relatives and friends of the deceased. A son of Mr. D. and several friends immediately set to work to discover the body, and trace and ferret out the perpetrators of the outrage. The police of West Philadelphia were put upon the alert, and the city police informed of the occurrence as soon as possible. Application was made to the different medical colleges by High Constable Young and Captain Bennett, and every facility afford the officers by the gentlemen connected with those institutions. The body was discovered in the course of the day at the private dissecting room of a distinguished anatomist, and taken in charge by the son of the deceased. The anatomist alluded to is out of the city and cannot have known anything of the affair. His man alone is to blame, and every effort is being made to have this body-snatcher and his accomplices arrested. -- Philadelphia Times.
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