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Apr. 28th, 2005 10:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingAt approximately 3:30 on the morning of Dec. 1, 1878, the occupants of 505 10th St. NW, a tenement located near the corner of E Street, were awakened by a loud pounding on the building's front door. After gathering up their courage, several of the women living in the building cautiously descended the stairs to see who was calling at such an indecent hour. Their nocturnal visitor turned out to be one John Stewart, a black man whose chief defining characteristic happened to be that he was dead.
He hadn't come on his own. He was accompanied by two grave robbers, who'd just "resurrected" him from the predominantly black Columbian Harmony Cemetery on Brentwood Road NE. The body snatchers believed themselves to be on the doorstep of the dissection room of the medical department of Georgetown University, where they planned to sell Stewart's body to an eager batch of medical students. They were wrong—that was next door. When the intrepid ladies of 505 10th St. opened their door, the body snatchers did what anybody who's been carrying a dead body that he doesn't particularly want to be seen hauling around would do: They heaved it inside. There it knocked down one unfortunate occupant and sent the rest into the street screaming, "Police!" and "Murder!"
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A short history of grave robbing in Washington, D.C.
He hadn't come on his own. He was accompanied by two grave robbers, who'd just "resurrected" him from the predominantly black Columbian Harmony Cemetery on Brentwood Road NE. The body snatchers believed themselves to be on the doorstep of the dissection room of the medical department of Georgetown University, where they planned to sell Stewart's body to an eager batch of medical students. They were wrong—that was next door. When the intrepid ladies of 505 10th St. opened their door, the body snatchers did what anybody who's been carrying a dead body that he doesn't particularly want to be seen hauling around would do: They heaved it inside. There it knocked down one unfortunate occupant and sent the rest into the street screaming, "Police!" and "Murder!"
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A short history of grave robbing in Washington, D.C.