Tag: Wakefield Gaines

  • What an 1887 murder and dismemberment tells us about race relations today The Philadelphia Inquirer 2016-02-17 Samantha Melamed, Staff Writer On the freezing-cold morning of Feb. 17, 1887, a Bensalem carpenter walking by an ice pond noticed a parcel wrapped in brown paper and marked “handle with care.” Inside, he found a male torso of…