Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 134, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1915 — HUMAN BODY IS HIS ASSET [ARTICLE]

HUMAN BODY IS HIS ASSET

Pawnbroker Wants It, Too—Sold to Him for $lO Loan In Dee Moines, lowa. Des Moines, la. —Mose Levied, a bankrupt pawnbroker here, who holds a bill of sale for the body of Miss Dottie Morgan now of Denver, after her death, has filed a petition in bankruptcy court asking for upon whether this body should be counted as an asset in the settling up of the business. Levich claimed that the woman gave him the bill of sale in 1907 for the loan of $lO. The bill of sale reads: “Des Moines, lowa, January, 1907. “I, Miss Dottie Morgan of my own free will and without coercion of any kind, do hereby sell to Mose Levich my body after death, to do with as he sees fit, for the consideration of ten dollars ($10). “The said Mose Levich shall not take possession of my body until after I am dead and if at any time during my life I wish to cause this bill of sale null and void and shall pay to Mose Levich or his assignees $lO in good and lawful money of the United States, his interest in my body shall cease. “MISS DOTTIE MORGAN.”