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Sinister Activities had been rumored in 1897, but great alarm spread among both black and white citizens when police discovered that the body of a young woman supposed to be buried in the Potter's Field here was instead being shipped to the University of Virginia for medical research. Arrests were made and charges resolved, but citizens still gathered at night to watch over their dead. Many others demanded that graves be opened to prove they had not been molested. After a period of weeks, calm eventually returned.