An American correspondent of the Otago Daily Times, in writing of the resurrectionists of Connecticut, New York, and lowa, says : One Mrs. Alexander has just been convicted of alluring to her bagnio victims of both sexes, and having them murdered and sold to medical schools or for some other purpose, and a sympathetic jury fixed her punishment at imprisenment for life. God alone knows to what uses these bodies are put by their purchasers, but that a roaring trade is done in corpses from the Mexican line to New Brunswick, and from ocean to ocean, is undoubted. It is a recognised industry, the corpses of suicides and waifs and strays of humanity, being the admitted perquisite of the cemetery keeper.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 360, 4 January 1879, Page 7
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