Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1898 — Corpses Were Not Mutilated. [ARTICLE]

Corpses Were Not Mutilated.

Surgeon General Van Reypen of the navy has received full reports from the surgeon with Admiral Sampson’s fleet, who cared for the dead and wounded participants in the Guantanamo fight. Their important feature is a definite statement that the corpses were not mutilated, but that tbe severe wounds attributed to mutilation were the result of Mauser rifle balls.