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Show RELATIVES TO SELL ANCESTOR'S COFFIN By Associated Presa. HAVANA. Dec. 27. Relatives of a Spanish merchant, said to ls of noble hii th who died several years ago aft'ei huvlng amassed a considerable fortune, for-tune, have aked the Cuban sanitation sanita-tion department for permission to exhume ex-hume his body ao as to obtain the brasa casket in which It waa buried. They want to sell the caaket for the metal It contains, as the family fortune for-tune has dwindled since thia founder's denth. The department ruled that the only question involved was a moral one and ' that there wif no law to prevent the I relatives from reclaiming and selling j the caaket. |