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September Term, 1875 .- C. C. Benscoter, of Reynoldsville, district attorney.
December Term, 1875 .- Samuel A. Craig, of Brookville (see biography).
Adjourned Term, January, 1876 .- Madison M. Meredith, of Brookville.
Adjourned Term, August, 1876 .- C. H. Mc- Cauley, of Ridgway, practiced occasionally at this bar.
September Term, 1876 .- George W. Means, of Brookville; J. A. Scott of Brookville; C. Bartles, Jr., was here but once.
December Term, 1876 .- Burke Corbet, of Brookville; Frank R. Hindman, of Clarion ; William A. Hindman, of Clarion.
February Term, 1877 .- M. F. Leason, of Brookville; John W. Walker, of Brookville, elected justice of the peace for the borough in 1885 (see biography) ; John C. Whitehill, of Brookville.
May Term, 1877 .- J. M. Hunter, of Kittan- ning, here but once.
September Term, 1877 .- Joseph A. Mc- Donald.
February Term, 1878 .- John E. Calder- wood, of Punxsutawney.
September Term, 1878 .- S. H. Whitehill, of Brookville (see biography ).
February Term, 1879 .- William M. Gilles- pie, of Punxsutawney, who is entirely blind ; Thomas Sutton, of Indiana.
September Term, 1879 .- Calvin Rayburn read law in Brookville (see biography) ; George T. Rodgers, of Brookville.
February Term, 1880, -. A. A. Graham; W. S. Thomas, practiced at this bar and resided in Brookville for a year or two and then re- moved to Clearfield; Hiram H. Brosius, of Brookville, member State Legislature (see biography).
September Term, 1880 .- Cadmus Z. Gor- don, of Brookville (see biography) ; J. W. Lee, of Franklin.
February Term, 1881 .- John T. Shannafelt, of Clarion.
May Term, 1882 .- James M. Corbet, of Brookville.
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September Term, 1882 .- John M. Van Vliet, of Brookville, elected district attorney in 1888; Denny C. Ogden, of Brookville.
February Term, 1883 .- Cyrus II. Blood, of Brookville; afterwards prothonotary (sce biography).
May Term, 1883 .- J. Davis Broadhead, of Bethlehem, comes occasionally.
September Term, 1883 .- G. A. Rathburn, of Ridgway, practices occasionally at the bar ; Alexander J. Truitt, of Punxsutawney (see biography ).
February Term, 1884 .- A. L. Cole, of D11- Bois ; Charles B. Earley, of Ridgway, prac- ticed occasionally in these courts.
September Term, 1884 .- Edward A. Car- malt ; G. S. Crosby, of Kittanning.
December Term, 1884 .- Harry Hall, of St. Marys, was here but once ; now president of the Twenty-fifth Judicial district.
February Term, 1885 .- W. H. Ross, of Clarion : George W. Biddle, of Philadelphia ; Silas M. Pettit, of Philadelphia; John G. Hall, of Ridgway; Robert Snodgrass, of Har- risburg.
September Term, 1886 .- G. Ament Blose, of Hay, Jefferson county (see biography) ; Charles B. Craig, of New Bethlehem.
May Term, 1887 .- T. H. Murray, of Clear- field ; William L. McCracken, of Perry town- ship, district attorney in 1891.
Members of Bar Admitted Since 1888
Walter W. Ames, September 3, 1888; W. M. Lindsey. September 11, 1888; Alfred L. Ivory, September 17, 1888; W. W. Winslow, December 14, 1888.
Harry R. Wilson, May 6, 1889; Charles Corss, December 2. 1889; M. W. Barbor, December 2, 1889.
Frank G. Harris, May 31, 1890.
William W. Wyant, February 27, 1891 ; N. I .. Strong, March 31, 1891 (see biography) ; Herbert A. Moore. May 4, 1891; Benjamin M. Clark, May 7. 1891 ; B. A. Brown, May 27, 1891 ; W. J. Hughes, September 10, 1891 ; W. W. Corbet, December 10, 1891 (see biog- raphy).
J. V. Murray, May 2, 1892, district attor- ney 1900, 1903. 1906; Don C. Corbett, May 17, 1892; J. L. Fisher, June 27, 1892; John M. White. December 5, 1892.
Henry I. Wilson, February 9, 1893, member State Legislature; James II. Kelly, July 1. 1893: James P. McNarnly, September II, 1893; William Jenks. December 11, 1893 (see biography) ; W. C. Pentz, December 27, 1893.
John S. Shirley, February 15, 1894; George M. McDonald, February 16, 1894; Hugh B. McCullough, February 28, 1894; Roland D. Swoope, July 30, 1894; G. A. Lukehart, Sep- tember 10, 1894.
Jeff. G. Wingert, January 10, 1895; Wilber F. Reeder, September 26, 1895; Clement Dale, September 26, 1895; Miss S. S. Beatty, Sep- tember 26, 1895; Frank Hutton, December 4. 1895.
Francis J. Weakley, January 6, 1896; Wil- liam N. Conrad, May 11, 1896 (see biog- raphy) ; J. B. Stewart, May 21, 1896 (sec biography ) ; Hon. B. F. Shively, May 25, 1896, United States Senator from State of Indiana : D. M. Geist, June 2, 1896; G. G. Sloan, September 14, 1896.
William T. Darr, September 6. 1897 (see biography) ; John D. Croasman, September 6, 1897 : Clarence O. Morris, September 6, 1897, district attorney of Armstrong county ; W. H. Stamey, November 23, 1897.
Blake E. Irvin, December 19, 1898 (see biography) : W. Mervin Craft, August 8, 1898; William Blair Adams, August 8, 1898 (see biography) ; A. A. Geary, September 13, 1898; Smith M. McCreight, 1898 (see biog- raphy).
David I. Crebs, January 25, 1899; D. T. Driscoll, April 10, 1899; George F. Whit- mer, June 26, 1899; George English, August 17, 1899 ; H. R. Martin, September 18, 1899.
Lex N. Mitchell, January 29, 1900 (see biography ).
Francis A. Hamber, March 4, 1901.
Edgar C. Craft, September 29, 1902.
Allan F. Hall, March 7. 1904; Arthur B. Stewart, June 28, 1904: Clement W. Flynn, June 28, 1904; Neil W. Andrews, November 14, 1904.
Jesse C. Long, July 3. 1905. present dis- trict attorney (sce biography) ; Raymond Elliot Brown, July 3, 1905 (see biography ) ; Will C. Smith, July 3, 1905 ; J. A. F. Hoy. August 14, 1905.
W. S. Hamblen, November 14. 1907.
J. Malcolm Longwell, March 10, 1908.
Lewis G. Brosius, April 11, 1910.
Buell B. Whitehill, March 4. 1912 (see biography ) ; Frank M. Flynn, August 12, 1912.
M. S. Horner, April 12, 1915; Charles J. Margiotti, August 11, 1915 (see biography ) ; George W. Means, September 20, 1915.
James Updegraff Gillespie, September 4. 1916; Heath Steck Clark. September 4, 1916: Alexander St. John Scribner, September 5, 1916.
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PRESENT MEMBERS, JEFFERSON COUNTY BAR
Names and Post Office Addresses of Mem- bers Residing in County (1915)
H. C. Campbell, Punxsutawney.
William M. Fairman, Punxsutawney. John St. Clair, Punxsutawney. M. M. Davis, Reynoldsville. S. A. Craig, Brookville.
J. W. Walker, Brookville. John E. Calderwood, Punxsutawney.
W. M. Gillespie, Punxsutawney.
H. H. Brosius, Brookville.
C. Z. Gordon, Brookville.
C. C. Benscoter, Brookville.
George D. Jenks, Brookville. A. J. Truitt, Punxsutawney. Edward A. Carmalt, Brookville.
G. A. Blose, Hamilton. W. L. McCracken, Brookville.
W. W. Winslow, Punxsutawney.
N. L. Strong, Brookville.
B. M. Clark, Punxsutawney. James V. Murray, Brookville.
Jacob L. Fisher, Punxsutawney.
Henry J. Wilson, Big Run. William Jenks, Punxsutawney. George M. McDonald, Reynoldsville. H. B. MeCullough, Brockwayville.
W. N. Conrad, Brookville.
T. B. Stewart, Brookville. Smith M. McCreight, Reynoldsville.
W. T. Darr, Brookville.
H. R. Martin, Punxsutawney.
Lex N. Mitchell, Punxsutawney.
B. E. Irvin, Brookville. Arthur B. Stewart, Brookville. W. B. Adams, Punxsutawney. Raymond E. Brown, Brookville.
Jesse C. Long, Punxsutawney.
J. M. Longwell. Brookville.
L. G. Brosius, Brookville.
Buell B. Whitehill, Brookville. M. S. Horner, Ohl.
Charles J. Margiotti, Punxsutawney. George W. Means, Brookville.
The following were appointed for the year 1916, to serve until January, 1917, as a board for the examination of applicants for admis- sion to the bar: Attorneys S. A. Craig, John W. Walker, H. B. Mccullough, Lex N. Mit- chell and L. G. Brosius.
The law library committee, appointed for the same period, are: Attorneys M. M. Davis, A. J. Truitt, Edward A. Carmalt, W. N. Con- rad and Raymond E. Brown.
A. B. Stewart, of Brookville, was appointed solicitor for the county.
The legal profession is overcrowded, there being one lawyer to every seven hundred in- habitants in the United States.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE
The pioneer justices of the peace for Jef- ferson county were appointed in the year 1809, viz. : Thomas Lucas, on the 16th of January, and John Scott on the 17th of March. On March 14. 1814, authority was granted for the subdivision of Jefferson county into six districts, for the election of justices of the peace.
Appointees, First District
Composed of the townships of Perry and Young and that part of Pinecreek lying south of the State road leading from Milesburg to Erie, bounded by the county line and said road, including the borough of Brookville: John Bell, appointed March 8, 1818; Charles C. Gaskill, August 15, 1822, resigned March 12, 1825; Andrew H. Bowman, February 28, 1826, resigned ; Elijah Heath, August 20, 1830; John Hess, August 20, 1830, resigned March 7, 1831 ; John Winslow, May 20, 1831 ; Wil- liam Stunkard, October 22, 1831 ; James Bell. November 13, 1832: John Robinson, May 27. 1833; Alexander McKnight, October 25, 1833 : Martin Shoaf, October 31. 1833: James M. Steedman, January 1, 1834 ; William Ferguson, May 27, 1835: John Robinson, 1836; James Corbet, June, 1837.
.Appointees, Second District
To include the remainder of said county lying north of the State road leading from Milesburg to Erie, bounded by the county line and said State road, including Ridgway township: Joseph Mccullough, appointed De- cember 1, 1823: John Stratton, March 31, 1837: Reuben A. Aylesworth, February 18. 1832, resigned March 15, 1836 (resided in Ridgway township) ; John Wilson, January 8, 1835: Stephen Tibbetts, February 14, 1835.
The following justices of the peace were elected in the various townships at a pioneer election held in 1840: Young township, Wil- liam Davis and Lemuel Carey ; Porter town- ship, John Robinson; Paradise township, none ; Pinecreek township, John J. Y. Thomp-
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son and Nathaniel Butler; Washington town- ship. Andrew Smith and William Reynolds ; Eldred township. William MeNeil and David Lamb; Snyder township, Milton Johnston and Asaph M. Clarke; Barnett township, Oran Butterfield and John .\. Maize; Ridgway township. James Gallagher and Lyman Wil- marth: Tionesta township, John G. William- son : Jenks township, Cyrus Blood.
The justices of the peace are now chosen for a term of six years, and are required to file acceptance of the office with the prothono- tary within thirty days of election or forfeit the commission. The following were elected November 2. 1915. in the various townships and boroughs of the county :
Barnett Robert MeBeth, Cooksburg.
Beaver-Benjamin Brosius. Langville.
Bell-H. W. Weaver, Punxsutawney R. D. Big Run-Q. S. Reams.
Brookville-Raymond E. Brown.
Clover-Isaac Smith, Baxter.
Eldred-Harry Truman, Sigel.
Falls Creek-J. J. Schnell, J. HI. Webb.
Gaskill-Samuel Graffius, Big Run; J. H. Gould, Punxsutawney R. D.
Heath-L. E. Kelly, Sigel R. D.
Henderson-Philip Loos, Desire.
McCahont-Thomas Cowie. Eleanora.
Oliver-W. C. Breakey, Coolspring.
Perry-D. A. Hamilton, Hamilton.
Pinecreek-S. T. Stormer, Brookville R. D.
Porter-Freeman Snyder, New Maysville R. D.
Punxsutawney-C. C. Rowan.
Reynoldsville -- Perry B. Love.
Snyder-11. J. Ferman, Brockwayville R. D. Summerville-1. B. Mclaughlin, Hiram F. Guthrie.
Sykesville-J. L. Shaffer.
Union-F. R. Smith, Brookville R. D.
Washington-Richard Ward, Westville.
Winslow-Robert Laird. Reynoldsville R. D. Worthville-B. F. Alcorn, George B. Shan- non.
Young-Samuel F. Law, Horatio.
CHAPTER XIV PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
THE PIONEER WILDERNESS DOCTOR IN NORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA-BROOKVILLE'S PIONEER RESURRECTION OR "WHO SKINNED THE NIGGER? - TRUE STORY OF THE INCEPTION AND ENACTMENT OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE ANATOMICAL LAW-OTHER MEDICAL LEGISLA- TION-JEFFERSON COUNTY PRACTITIONERS-COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETIES-MEDICAL, IN- SPECTORS OF SCHOOLS
To everything there is a time and a season.
Medicine was practiced in Egypt by the priests, and was so practiced in Europe until 1. D. 1163. Moses, the lawgiver, was a doc- tor and learned in all the arts of the Egyp- tians.
THE PIONEER WILDERNESS DOCTOR
The pioneer doctor was a useful citizen, and his visits to the early settlers when afflicted were a great comfort. How we all long now to see the doctor when we are sick! Our isolated people longed just the same for the coming of their doctor. The science of med- icine then was very crude, and the art of it very imperfect, hence the early practitioner had but limited skill; vet while exercising whatever he professed for the relief of suf-
fering. his privations and labor while travel- ing by night or day on horseback with his "old pill bags" were hard and severe in the extreme. The extent of his circuit was usually from fifty to one hundred miles, over poor roads and paths, swimming his horse through creeks and rivers as best he could. I have traveled a circuit of one hundred miles in my clay. In those days every one had respect for the doctor, and every family along his circuit was delighted with an opportunity to extend free hospitality to the doctor and his horse.
I began the practice of medicine in Brook- ville on March 6. 1857, before I was twenty- One.
When I commenced practice I had to ride on horseback. My field extended all through and over Jefferson, Forest and Elk counties, as well as the western part of Clearfield county. and I kept from one to three horses. My
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rides were long, day and night, through rain, mud, sleet, cold, snow and darkness, with no rubber garments to protect me from storms. The pioneer doctor always wore green leg- gings or corduroy overalls. I was no excep- tion to this rule. I have traveled the creek beds, forded and swam my horse when the rivers were in rafting stage, and ridden over paths many a time from dark until daylight all alone through the wilderness, twenty, thirty or fifty miles, stopping about midnight at some cabin to give my horse a little feed.
In those days there was no telegraph, tel- ephone or daily mail through which to summon a doctor, but a neighbor had to be sent on foot or on horseback to find a physician- and not to come back without him. I was a good practical botanist and used mostly herbs and roots; these I gathered in the spring, summer and fall. Recipes were the fad then. One of my preceptors had a book of these, which I carefully copied, as well as any others I could find. Medical colleges were few, and medical literature was scarce. As doctors we knew but little, and had to rely on what com- mon sense we possessed. My partner, Dr. Niver, made what he called "Devil's broth." It was a mixed decoction of about all our roots and herbs, to be administered, as he said, "with the hope that some one of the ingre- clients would hit the disease." In fact, medicine and its practice was about all theory. Remedies were crude and drastic. Instruments few, imperfect and clumsy. I feel amazed when I think how ignorant I was, yet I tied arteries, set broken bones, amputated limbs, saved lives! The pioneer doctor unselfishly re- sponded to all calls, asking no questions as to ยท pay, and performing more free labor for hi- manity than all other classes of men combined.
In learning the art I rode with my precep- tor. In some of my long rides I have become so tired about midnight that I felt 1 could not go a step farther. Then I would dismount from my horse, hitch him to a log on the outside of a log barn, slip the bridle around his neck, climb into the mow, throw the horse an armful of hay, and then fall asleep in the hay, only to awaken when the sun was an hour or two high. The pioneer doctor carried his pillbags well stocked with calomel, Dover's powder, tartar emetic, blistering salve, a pair of old turnkeys for extracting teeth, and spring and thumb lancets for bleeding pur- poses, as everybody had to be bled, sick or well. Twenty-five cents was the fee for bleedings, and the amount of blood drawn from the arm was from half a pint to a quart. The custom
of bleeding sick or well fell into disrepute about 1860. A town visit was from twenty- five to fifty cents, a visit in the country twenty- five cents a mile, an obstetric fee five dollars. Sanitary science was unknown before 1867.
Antiseptic surgery had its birth in that year, when Lister reported, in the London "Lancet," eleven cases of compound fracture which re- covered without infection or amputation. Be- fore that date we had to contend with suppura- tion of the wound, the putrefaction and sloughing off of tissue, the sickening odor, the high fever, the danger of hemorrhage, the slow healing, the complications of blood poi- soning, erysipelas, gangrene and tetanus, the physical and mental anguish, and the uncer- tainty of the final outcome. The mortality from major operations was from fifty to one hundred per cent.
'The tools of the pioneer were the axe, six- inch auger, drawing-knife, a broadaxe and a cross-cut saw. The dexterity of the pioneer in the sleight and use of the axe was remark- able, indeed marvelous. He used it in clearing land, making fences, chopping firewood, cut- ting paths and corduroy roads, building cabins and bridges. In fact, in all work and hunting, in traveling by land, in canoeing and rafting on the water, the axe was ever his friend and companion. The erection with these imple- ments of log cabins and log barns, the logging in lumber camps, the taking out of square timber, rafting in and down the creeks and the clearing of farm land, caused many dis- locations, fractures, lacerations, incisive or cut wounds. Some of these were simple, but many were terrible. I used for adhesion in cut wounds Balm of Gilead stick plaster, spread on muslin strips. The pioneer doctor had to improvise his own surgical dressings; of course they were clumsy and crude.
THE OLD-FASHIONED DOCTOR By II. C. Dodge
He'd stalk to our cribside and order us gruffly To stick out our tongue, which we'd do with such dread. And give, while he handled our pulses so roughly, An ominous shake of his solemn old head.
And then while he listened to mother's description Of things we had eaten and what we had done, He grimly would write his old Latin prescription For nastiest medicines under the sun.
Those horrible doses. How mother would scold us, And beg us and buy us to take 'em in vain ; And oh, how we'd struggle when father would hold us And squeeze shut our noses regardless of pain.
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And, when forced to open our mouths, quickly mother
Would shove in a spoonful that strangled us till We spluttered it out-just in time for another.
Its vile, deathly taste's in our memory still.
BROOKVILLE'S PIONEER RESURRECTION
"WHO SKINNED THE NIGGER ?"
The Truth Told by the Only One Now Living of Those That Were Engaged in It
On Sunday morning, November 8, 1857, Brookville was thrown into a state of the greatest commotion and excitement, occasioned by the discovery by the late W. C. Smith (then a lad of fifteen) of the mutilated remains of a human being in an icehouse belonging to K. L. Blood, on the corner of Pickering street and Coal alley, or where Mrs. Craig now lives (see view of Brookville in 1857). Smith found the door broken open, having been forced during the night, and the body lying on the ice, with a board under the shoulders and head, the legs and arms spread apart, the intestines taken out, a lump of ice placed in the abdominal cavity, and the body literally skinned, the cuticle having been removed en- tirely from the crown of the head to the soles of the feet. Filled with terror, young Smith ran from the spot, telling his discovery to all he met. Men, women and children rushed en masse to the icehouse. Thoughts of savage butchery, suicide and horror took hold of the people. Women cried, and men turned pale with indignation. The news of Smith's dis- covery spread like wildfire, and the excitement and indignation became more and more intense as hundreds of men, women and children from the town and vicinity gathered around the lonely icchouse. It was at first supposed to be murder most foul. But, on a close inspec- tion of the remains by Henry R. Fullerton, a little "curly hair," resembling "negro wool," was found lying loose near the body. This was a clue. Fullerton then declared it was the mutilated corpse of one Henry Souther- land, who had died about ten days before and been buried in the old graveyard. Tools were at once procured by the excited mob. led by Henry R. Fullerton, Cyrus Butler, Sr .. Rich- ard Arthur, Esq., and others, and a rush was made for Southerland's grave. Arrived there, upon the removal of a few shovelfuls of dirt a loose slipper was found, and farther on its mate. When the coffin was reached the body was found to be gone, and only the clothes, torn off, and lying inside, were to be seen.
What was this desecration for? Cyrus Butler, Sr., a gruff old man, said, "For money." He boldly asserted that men nowadays would do anything for money. "Yes," he said, "skin human excrement and eat the little end on't. Yes, all for money." Soon, in the absence of any better theory, everybody seemed to accept his belief, and it was positively asserted from one to another that a negro hide, would sell for five hundred dollars to make razor-strops, etc.
During the entire day the mob were at sea. The officials permitted the body to remain ex- posed-a revolting spectacle to men, women and children. To all of this I was an inter- ested spectator. At nightfall an inquest was summoned of twelve men by Justices John Smith and .A. J. Brady.
Coroner's Inquest
Proceedings of the corner's inquest, held in the borough of Brookville, upon the body of a man found in the icehouse belonging to K. L. Blood, on the corner of Pickering street and Spring ( Coal) alley, on the morning of Sunday November 8, 1857 :
"In pursuance of the summons issued by Jus- tices John Smith and A. J. Brady, the following persons were called and sworn, to wit: E. R. Brady, J. J. Y. Thompson, Andrew Craig. John Boucher, Levi A. Dodd, Christopher Smathers, Henry R. Fullerton, G. W. An- drews, S. C. Arthurs, John E. Carroll, John Ramsey, Daniel Smith, who repaired to the ice- house and made an examination of the body there deposited, and found the remains of a male human being, with the breast sawed open, the bowels and entrails removed, the toe and finger nails cut off at the first joint, and the skin of the entire body removed.
"The grave in which Henry Southerland (colored), of Pinecreek township, had been buried having been opened in the presence of a number of the jurors and other persons, and it being found that the body of said deceased had been removed from the said grave, the following witnesses were called and sworn :
"David Banks, sworn: I helped open the grave in which the body of Henry Southerland ( colored) had been buried : found no body in the coffin; found the burial clothes rolled up in a bundle and placed in the head of the coffin ; found one of the slippers in which de- ceased was buried in the clay about a foot above and before coming to the coffin; the body had evidently been removed.
"F. C. Coryell, sworn: Was present at the opening of the grave to-day; saw the coffin
View of: Brookville in 1857.
VIEW OF BROOKVILLE IN 1857
Pickering Street running north and south on the left. On the top of the hill is the United Presbyterian Church, adjoining the graveyard. Coming down from the church, the arrow points to the little ice house.
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opened and no body there; found the clothes thrown in carelessly in a heap; one slipper with the clothes in the coffin and another in the clay some distance above the coffin ; these slippers had my cost mark on, and are the same as purchased from me by the friends of Henry Southerland for his funeral.
"A. R. Marlin, sworn: Henry Southerland was buried in the graveyard at Brookville on Wednesday or Thursday last; helped to bury him; the grave opened to-day is the one in which deccased was placed; no body' in the coffin when opened to-day.
"Richards Arthurs, sworn: I examined the body in the icehouse this day; looked at the mouth and tongue ; they resembled those of a person who had died of a disease; two double teeth out ; seemed as if they had recently been drawn; found some hair about the back of the neck, which was black and curly ; think it was the hair of a negro, or whiskers; think this is the body of Henry Southerland ; toes, fingers and skin taken off.
"After making these enquiries and believing the body found in the icchouse to be that of Henry Southerland, which had been removed from the graveyard in the borough of Brook- ville, the jury caused the same to be taken up and deposited in the coffin, and placed in the grave from which the body of said Souther- land had been removed, and the same filled up in their presence ; then returning to the office of John Smith, Esq., a justice of the peace, adjourned, to meet at nine o'clock to-morrow ( Monday ) morning.
"The jury render their verdict as follows : That the body found in the icehouse is, to the best of their knowledge and belief, the body of Henry Southerland, stolen from the grave in which the same had been deposited ; and the skin, bowels, and toe and finger nails had been removed by some person or persons to the jury unknown.
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