619. Body snatchers plotted to steal dead mayor’s corpse

Daniel Magone had a plan. He was going to dig up the corpse of the most important and prominent businessman in old Portland, and hold it for ransom. So he and his drinking buddy, Charlie Montgomery, hired a couple of laborers, told them they were digging up dead paupers to sell to the medical college as cadavers (it was 1897, did I mention that?), waited for dark, and got busy ...

It did not go as planned.