From the Richmond Dispatch, 8/2/1861, p. 2

The Box which has attracted so much attention at the Central Depot, was opened yesterday and found to contain only an empty burial case. Our informant, who smelt something offensive, may have had his imagination wrought upon by the sight of blood-stained litters lying all about. There certainly was o corpse in the box.

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