People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1894 — A King's Three Coffins. [ARTICLE]

A King's Three Coffins.

Of Attila, king of the Huns, it is said that his body was placed in three coffins—the first of gold, the second of silver and the third of iron. All of his arms, the trappings of his horses and the thousands of mementos which he had gathered in his campaigns were buried with him. History further states that “all the captains and slaves who were emploved to dig his grave and bury him were put to death, so that none might betray the last resting place of Attila, the greatest of al) Huns.”