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Show When the undertaker came around the next day he had the corpse put in an ice-box, while he went for a hearse and some mourners, and the preparations for sepulture were nearly complete when Mr. Kelly kicked the Ud from the box, got up and asked for his overcoat. over-coat. Instead of giving the corpse its overcoat, the Brooklyn Eagle says, the coroner and other officials took to their heels, not that they were averse in granting the dead man's request, but that it was not in the usual order of thing3 for dead men to make requests. Presently Mr. Kelly climbed out of the box and in plaintive language, punctuated with hiccoughs, went about town complaining of the indignities to which he had been subjected and also of headache. At last accounts he was still wandering around Chester terrifying terrify-ing people by these remarks and creating creat-ing a strong sentiment in favor of his recapture and burial. A pretty state of things Mr. Kelly is trying to establish! If he has a spark of consideration for the feelings of his fellows and the fee9 of the coroner he will go back to the undertaker and ask him to finish the work that he had begun. His refusal to be put into his coffin is a direct reflection re-flection upon the acumen of the police and the personal qualifications of the coroner, and, again, if his example should be followed to any great extent, it would create no end of confusion and lead to a vast amount of trouble with wills. Mr. Kelly should submit to be buried. THE CORPSE OBJECTED. Kicked the Coffin Lid Off When All Wae Ready for the Burial. Thomas Kelly, a colored man, disappointed disap-pointed a large audience in Chester, Pa., the other day by refusing to be buried when the audience was ready to bury him. He had been picked up for dead on a wharf the night before and had been tenderly removed to the coroner's office to await an inquest and a funeral. |