The grave workers heaved on the ropes and chains. Curtains were drawn around and the entire party went inside the tent. Even after all these years, she could still help her sisters.Īfter the arrival of Berry’s team, preparations were made for raising the coffin. Mollie’s body could provide perfect corroborating evidence for the dial painters’ fight in court. The family hadn’t protested when Berry had put the idea to them.
Standing awkwardly among the doctors and lawyers were three other men: James McDonald and James Larice, Mollie’s sisters’ husbands, and her father, Valerio.
There were thirteen officials in all, gathered together to witness Mollie’s exhumation. Martland, and a cohort of New York doctors, who would lead on conducting the autopsy. At 3:30 p.m., as specified, Berry walked up to the grave with Mrs. Prudently, Berry had arranged for a special investigator to be present for the morning’s activities he now watched the company men closely as they milled outside the tent. There were six of them, including Vice President Barker and the ubiquitous Dr. exactly.Īt 3:00 p.m., the specialists from the company arrived at Mollie’s grave. Berry had arranged with the radium company that they would all converge at 3:30 p.m.
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It was raised just slightly, “to free it from water that had seeped in around it as a result of the recent rains.” Then they waited for the officials to arrive. The men ran ropes under it, then attached stronger silver chains. Then they worked to uncover the coffin, heaving sodden earth out of the hole until they unveiled a nondescript wooden box, which held Amelia “Mollie” Maggia-the girl, so people said, who had died of syphilis. They erected a tent over it and removed the headstone. They made their way through the rows of memorials until they stopped at one particular grave. that the men came to Rosedale Cemetery on October 15, 1927. The following is an excerpt from The Radium Girls by Kate Moore.
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