DISPUTE OVER CORPSE.
A MURDERER'S BEQUEST. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, Dee. 31. :Tho Daily Telegraph's Paris correspondent says a murderer's bequest of his corpse to science has resulted in a strange dispute «between scientists and the police, wherein the murderer is taking the side of science. .When Ferdinand Leclercq was sentenced to death ho invited proposals from research workers to utilise his corpse. He finally accepted an offer by M. Guedard, inventor of a, pump wherewith he claimed to restore the blood circulation to a person immediately after death. M. Guedard arranged to take possession of th'«j corpse directly the murderer was guillotined, and so hired a room overlooking the execution. The police pointed out that the statute provided that thej corpse must be formally taken to the cemetery before being handed to thei anatomists. Leclercq protested without result, stating he was willing to dispense! with' the ceremony, and demanded that M. Guedard be allowed to carry out his experiments, and L\f. Guedard is still trying tp get behind the statute. ~,.-.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16320, 2 January 1924, Page 3
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