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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 916, 8 October 1879, Page 2

A point of great delicacy is involved in a lawsuit which has been commenced in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia in the United States. It seems that the applicant for the writ wa»\ i some time ago seized with a malignant malady, which rendered the amputation of his legs necessary to save his life. The surgeon who attended the afflicted^ plaintiff took the amputated limbs to i the Medical Museum, where they were . placed in a jar of alcohol. Their owner ' imagined that they had been buried, :but lately, to his disgust, learned that they were on exhibition at the Army Museum, with his name written on a card placed at the top of the jar. He at once put the matter in the hands of his legal advisers, who recommended him to recover possession of his limbs. It is expected, j that, in the event of his succeeding in obtaining his legs again, other actionß will be brought by various persons having ■ amputated limbs in the museum. ' : i "What do you know of the eharacter f of this man 1" was asked of a witness at/ a police-court the other day. "I know; it to be unbleachablejNyour Honor," He> -replied with much emphasis. ' ll "