Policemen entering the study of a medical student in search of thieves shoot at a pair of skeletons by mistake Etching by T. Onwhyn, 1844.

An episode in Sylvester Sound the somnambulist, by Henry Cockton. The skeletons have been acquired for anatomical study by Tom Delolme, who is a medical student and the son of a doctor. Policemen entering his study in search of thieves shoot at the skeletons by mistake and destroy one of them