Leichenraub

While gardening, a woman in an old estate comes across human bones. The doctor who is called in determines that the dead woman met a violent end long ago.

The trail of evidence leads into the history of a medical school from a time when research and the law met only with difficulty. A student who lacks money but not talent comes under suspicion and must clear himself without endangering his only witness.

Who was buried here, and who knew about it?