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Show OPENS GRAVE FOR A PICTURE. Sorrowing Widow Had to Have Picture Pic-ture by Which to Remember Hubby. To bo exhumed after ho had been burled for 20 ilajs nnd told to sit up Rail "look pleasant" was tho tough luck that befell n corpso out at Wood-lawn Wood-lawn cemetery, New York, tho other day. Henry Drown, n train dispatcher on tho Ono Hundred nnd Twenty, ninth street elevated road, died December De-cember C of rheumatic gout nnd wns burled decently and In ordor. Somo two weeks after tho funeral It occurred oc-curred to Mrs. Drown that sho would like a photograph ot her husband, having none that did him Justice. Immediately Im-mediately sho petitioned tho Dronx health department for permission to exhumo Henry nnd snapshot him. Tho health department was somewhat some-what dazed, but granted tho request, and so, with a photographer nnd an undertaker, Mrs. Drown went to Woodlawn nnd had tho threo weeks' corpso dug up. Drown was taken both profile and full face. |