The Bone Caper

The case of an Aboriginal named Polta Palangata aka Tommy Walker who lived on the streets of Adelaide he was something of a popular local figure so it wasn't seen as odd that when he died in 1901 the city's stock exchange paid to give him a decent funeral. The bone caper though almost proved to be Ramsey Smith's undoing it launched an inquiry into his morgue and local papers filled with articles claiming he'd sold skeletons for ten pounds a piece. A study by the National Institute for Health called cutting the flesh surgery autopsy and cannibalism in the Belgian Congo found these stories were misinterpreted by colonial observers. Both Europeans believed that the Congolese people were cannibals because