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Show JOHN L'S BODY LIES ST HOIViE OF MR Casket of Extraordinary Size Required; Prominent Men Will Serve as Honorary Hon-orary Pallbearers. By International News Service. BOSTOX. Maps., Fob. 3. The body of John jJt Sullivan, former heavyweight champion, who died suddenly at his home yesterday, lies enshrouded on a couch at thp home of his sister. Mrs. Annie E. ljf;nnon. at Roxburg;, tonight. There was no ctisket in Boston large enough, and a special on has been ordered from New York. Mn ny prominent sporting ' men were at the wake tonight. Theodora Roosevelt will probably be an honorary pallbearer. Others selected 3 nre: Mayor James M. Curley of Boston, Captain James P. Sullivan of the Boston police department ; Sullivan's attorney, Clarence YV. Rowley ; "Yank" Sullivan, his sparring partner, and William Ho-! Ho-! garty, Edwin Curran and John Mahoney, all boyhood friends. A personal friend of the "Greatest Ro-. Ro-. man," in Baltimore, has custody of his " diamond belt, which Is set with more than three hundred jewels and is valued at $70,000. The champion recently left -, it with him for safe keeping. |