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The Dallas Daily Herald
Dallas, Dallas County, Texas
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A press statement about the value of skeletons for physicians has inspired locals to form a company to supply cleaned human remains from cemeteries and potter's fields for medical use, potentially involving grave robbing. The article urges city authorities and Mayor Brown to investigate once he recovers from dengue.
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There has been a statement going the rounds of the press that skeletons were worth from $30 to $50, according to the style in which they are gotten up for the physicians' chest. It seems this announcement has stimulated the enterprise of some of our people who are at present on the qui vive for something to do, and that there is a regular company being formed, the object of which is to furnish (in the cause of science) well-dressed and scraped human organisms for the use of the medical profession. As the cemeteries are generally beyond the most thickly settled portions of the city, and many strangers are being buried in the potter's field, it has occurred to some that the operations of such a company might be carried on for some time with impunity. It certainly behooves the city authorities to look into the matter, and Mayor Brown, when sufficiently recovered from the dengue, should give it his earliest attention.
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A statement in the press about skeletons valued at $30 to $50 for physicians has led some locals to form a company to provide cleaned human skeletons from cemeteries and potter's fields for medical use, potentially operating with impunity due to remote locations. The article calls on city authorities and Mayor Brown to investigate after his recovery from dengue.