RESURRECTIONISTS IN AMERICA.

Kumara Times, Issue 619, 21 September 1878, Page 2

RESURRECTIONISTS IN AMERICA.

Mr Scott Harrison, son of the late President, W. H. Harrison, died quite recently at Great Bend, and was interred close to the tomb of his father, in the Presbyterian Cemetery near that town. During tbe interment the painful discovery was made that the newlymade grave of a young man named Devon had been rifled, and, the body " stolen. The Harrison family, determined to guard against a like desecration, caused the coffin—or M casket,” f v as our American cousins will hare it- . of their relative to be well walled in ; : with masonry and cohered with weighty stone. They furthermore employed^

to J;]be A »fcomb,.; ,Gena-j xal Harrison, of the 'decease, determined todisbover the desecratora of Devon’s obtained a' ’ warrant, bad accompanied by;. visited and searched the suspected precinta of the Ohio Medical College. Nothing was found. • they, were coming away One of the noticed a rope descending through a, closed chute. Ho handled the' rojpe, and some weight hung far belqwA He Hauled it up, and found the body of an old man tied by the "neck at the end. They were shocked, but 'as a glai.ce tebewed.it wjftS .'not tbe body of young Devon, wifire'fh the act of lower-* ing it agaipj Heneral Harrison Pushed- forward, “Great God I. it. is my , father,” JSven so it was. The grave-guard had been bribed) the luaspnry .bad been removed, and the 'body bi-Mr-Harrison'stolen ! The excitement occasioned l>y this outrage on one who had filled the position bf the deceased • gentleman is said to be intense. ‘The city of Cincinnati is in a ferment, and tragic consequences are apprehended: ; The college demonstrators have-fled''east, General Harrison having svfern to avenge in a decisive bray the outjrage bn his father’s grave.— San Francisco Bulletin.