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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 23, 1959)
SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 1959 HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS'OREfcON pActi .TriREE When The Body Snatchers Outfoxed The Irish Giant LONDON (UPI) For all his eigru leei, iwo incnes .01 neigm Chafles Byrne, "The Irish Giant," cowered when he saw the gray haired man in the throng of curi ous come to view him. He recognized the celebrated surgeon. John Hunter, and he did not like the look in his eye as Byrne later told his friends. That night, he called for quill and pen and wrote a will in which he instructed that his gigantic body was to be buried at sea after death. The giant read Hunter's look cor rectly, but underestimated his in genuity. " When. Byrne died, the tugboat captain was well-paid to carry his body to sea. But someone else paid him bet terand today, the Royal College of Surgeons displays the mighty skeleton of the Irish Giant as one of the victims of the "body snatch ing" practice to which even the most reputable surgeons once had to resort. The giant towers above a grisly collection of the skeletons of some of the-most notorious malefactors in British history, grinning out of glass cases under the airy classi fication: "The College Criminals." The college revealed the skele tons in its closets as part of its first publicity campaign in a his tory that goes back to the barbers and surgeons of the Middle Ages. It needs 3,000,000 sterling ($8,400, 000) to maintain itself as a teaching-arid research body. In the quest for . anatomical knowledge one, two and three or more centuries - ago, surgeons sharpened their scalpels and hewed where they might asking no questions about where the bodies came from. Next to 4he Irish Giant is the tiny skeleton of "The Sicilian Dwarf," who was 19 inches high and weighed only nine pounds, a But criminals, after hanging were legitimate subjects and the college got its share. Side by side under glass, malevolent even in death, are two "of the most notor ious criminals spewed up by the London . underworld Jonathan Wild, "The Bow Street Runner." and William Corder, whose mur der of Maria Marten in a red barn 131 years ago is still reen acted on theater stages all over Britain. The account of Corder"s crimes is in a book bound with leather made from his own skin. Wild, who operated more than 200 years ago. was the first real ancestor of the modern gangland overlord. He was also the first real an cestor of the private eye of pres ent-day detective fiction He master minded crime on the one hand and simultaneously operated a detective agency for restoring stolen goods. He had a payroll of rogues some of whom he betrayed to the hangman from time to time so that he could maintain his pose as a law-abid ing special investigator. Naturally, the records of the college and its preceding company of barber-surgeons are studded with the unusual. 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