WALTER REED GENERAL HOSPITAL
                      ARMY MEDICAL CENTER
                        WASHINGTON, D.C.
                                
                                
                                                                                                                                            August 14, 1942
 
SUBJECT:  Disposal of Bodies of Six Saboteurs.
 
TO:       The President of the United States.
 
THROUGH:  Chief of Staff, United States Army.
 
 
                     1. On August 8, 1942, at 4:15 P.M., in accordance with previous secret
arrangements, the bodies of:
 
          Herbert Hans Haupt
          Heinrich Harm Heinck
          Edward John Kerling
          Hermann Otto Neubauer                                              
          Richard Quirin
          Werner Thiel
 
were brought to Walter Reed General Hospital from the District Jail in two
Army Medical Center ambulances. Major Robert S. Higdon, Medical Corps, was in
charge of the ambulance detail. The bodies were identified by Colonel Martin 
F. DuFrenne, Medical Corps, and Major Thomas M. Rives, Assistant Provost Marshal,
D.C., who accompanied them from the execution room. Individual name tags were
 attached to the bodies and they were receipted for by Colonel Paul A. Schule,
Medical Corps, of the Walter Reed Hospital Laboratory Section.
 
      2. The six bodies were stored in individual cbmpartments of the
 refrigerating room at the hospital morgue. An armed guard was present in the
 morgue day and night until the bodies were removed, to insure that the boxes
were unopened and the bodies not seen by any unauthorized person. On the
evening of August 10, 1942, each body was embalmed in the hospital morgue by
Mr. William G. Durisoe of the Tabler Funeral Home, Incorporated, in the presence
of Major Carl J. Lind, Medical Corps, of the Hospital Laboratory Section.
 
      3. At 6:00 P.M., August 11, 1942, the bodies were placed in individual
 plain pine boxes, identified by name tag, and taken in a light truck, accompanied
by Major Lind, Major Earland W. Layer, Medical Administrative Corps, and three
armed guards to the Potters Field, Blue Plains, D.C.
 
      4. A detail from Fort Myer, under the direction of Captain Josiah T.
Showalter, Medical Corps, had prepared the graves. The bodies were receipted
for by Mr. Otto J. Case, Superintendent of the Home for the Aged and Infirm and