Re: [DL] Resurrectionists & Abe Lincoln

[Bryce <SandChigg@rocketmail.com>]

--- bez <bez@brain-rehab.com> wrote:
> You're probably all familiar with the practice of resurrectionists,
> or body
> snatchers, who dug up fresh corpses to sell to medical colleges.
> However, I
> heard recently that a counterfeiting gang attempted to rob the grave
> of
> Abraham Lincoln in 1876 in order to hold the body for ransom- namely
> $200,000 in gold, and the release of their master engraver.
> 
> As they were pulling the casket out of the tomb, they were foiled by
> the
> Secret Service, who had infiltrated the gang. The body snatchers
> actually
> escaped, only to be captured in Chicago 10 days later.
> 
> Imagine how this would have gone in Deadlands...

Cool.  Anybody else out there ever heard this story?  It's very
interesting.

-Bryce

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