Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1919 — WOULD DIG UP VALUABLE COFFIN. [ARTICLE]

WOULD DIG UP VALUABLE COFFIN.

Relatives of a Spanish merchant, said to be qt noble birth, who died several years ago after having amassed considerable fortune, have asked the Cuban sanitation department for permission to exhume his body so as to obtain the brass casket in which he was buried. They want to sell the casket for the metal It contains, as* the family fortune has dwindled since Its founder’s death. The department rale-I that the only question involved was a moral one, and that there was no law to prevent the Relatives from reclaiming and selling the casket