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Show ARREST SUSPECTED COFFIN GHOULS NEW YORK, Oc,t. 22. -In an' investigation investi-gation here of the activities of alleged "coffin ghouls" the federal authorities today caused the arrest of two undertakers undertak-ers on charges of attempting to defraud the government. The undertakers, it is alleged, by representing repre-senting to relatives of dead soldiers that the government coffins in which the bodies bod-ies were shipped home were "cheap pine boxes," secured orders for expensive caskets cas-kets and then appropriated the government govern-ment coffins, in some cases reselling them to the government. . The "cheap pine boxes" cost the government $36 each. The "coffin ghouls" are said to have reayed a rich harvest since the Spanish influenza began taking its toll in the training camps, and several more undertakers under-takers are said to be under investigation investiga-tion here. |