{"id":220,"date":"2013-11-17T06:51:47","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T06:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/?p=220"},"modified":"2013-11-17T06:51:47","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T06:51:47","slug":"skeleton-in-an-ash-barrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/?p=220","title":{"rendered":"Skeleton In An Ash Barrel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: large;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corkscrew-balloon.com\/01\/07\/1bkk\/06e.html\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Steele Scrapbook<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0&#8211; November 18, 1885<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/garretdom\/death\/homicide\/ash.jpg\" width=\"242\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: large;\">SKELETON IN AN ASH BARREL.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" width=\"10%\" \/>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: medium;\"><b>Officials of Norristown Are Investigating Gruesome Mystery.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: medium;\">Special Despatch to &#8220;The Press.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: medium;\">Norristown, Nov. 18.\u2014Boys playing on an ash dump at Cherry and Elm Streets this morning found the bones of a hand and arm. They informed John Taylor, a colored coachman, and he made a further search, finding the remainder of the skeleton of an adult person. Coroner McGlathery commenced an investigation, which he will continue with the purpose of unravelling some of the sudden disappearances which have taken place hereabouts. The gruesome find was brought to the city hall and the police are assisting the investigation.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>Unceremoniously Stolen From\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.corkscrew-balloon.com\/home.html\">Alf<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steele Scrapbook\u00a0&#8211; November 18, 1885 SKELETON IN AN ASH BARREL. Officials of Norristown Are Investigating Gruesome Mystery. Special Despatch to &#8220;The Press.&#8221; Norristown, Nov. 18.\u2014Boys playing on an ash dump at Cherry and Elm Streets this morning found the bones of a hand and arm. They informed John Taylor, a colored coachman, and he made &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/?p=220\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Skeleton In An Ash Barrel<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ghastly-discoveries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/decidedlygrim.net\/garretdom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}