THE MURDER ON THE DUBUQUE

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BODIES

By Sue Rekkas

Davenport Republican, Friday, August 29, 1902, page 8.

THE LEONIDAS BODIES ARE AT MEDICAL COLLEGE

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But They Have Not Passed Through the Disecting Room.

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   If Lawyer Edward Yates of Pittsburg, Pike County, Illinois, can prove that the widow he represents is really entitled to the bodies of Christopher Leonidas and son Ellsworth, who were shot by Mate Breen on the steamer Dubuque, he can probably get the bodies at the medical college at the State university in Iowa City.  They are still in the pickling vat at that institution, and have come to the dissecting table.  A reporter of the Iowa City Republican started on a tour of investigation to learn whether the bodies were there as intimated or were reposing at Pine Hill cemetery in this city.  The janitor of the building informed him that the bodies were according to custom in case of unclaimed bodies the authorities had sent them shortly after the killing on July 10.  The fact that school os not in session is probably responsible for the fact that the disecting knife has not been used upon the bodies.