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daughter of a respectable innkeeper who lived on the eastern 

 shore of Maryland. This lady had the reputation of being a well- 

 educated and charming southern belle. When her father passed 

 away, she moved to Richmond where she kept house for her 

 brother for eleven years. Following his death, she gradually de- 

 teriorated and at the age of fifty, drifted to Baltimore where she 



Figure 16. A photograph of an anatomy class at the University of Maryland, 

 taken about the time of the passage of the first Maryland anatomy act 

 (1882). From Figge, F. H. J.: Anatomy 150 years ago. The Kalends, 

 ?(^;11-14, 1957. By permission of Professor Figge and The Williams & 



Wilkins Co. 



walked the streets, frequently under the influence of drugs and 

 liquor. Destitute, she began living with a Negro family in one 

 of the poorest sections of the city. In this residence, lived a Negro 

 man, John T. Ross, who served as porter in the dissecting-room 

 at the University of Maryland. He, with the help of another 

 Negro, strangled her because, as a corpse, she was regarded as 



