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Show GETS WRONG BODY AS THAT OF HIS SON (Chicago Tribune Special Service.! CHICAGO, Nov. 22. Possibility of a w:ir department order requiring the exhumation ex-humation and reidentification of the brought back from northern Russia has developed with the inability of Iir. TVU-liam TVU-liam P. Collins of Racine, Witt, to locate the casket containing his son. Lieutenant K. R. Collins. The lieutenant was popular in Racine, and the home town was prepared to give it hero a large military funeral last Friday. Fri-day. Then the father opened the coffin and found the body sent to him was that of Charles O. Dial of Carlisle, Ind. He wired the adjutant -general as follows: fol-lows: "Body sent to me belonged to Carlisle. Ind. Body exhumed at Carlisle at my request re-quest belonged to SummitviHe, Ind. Body exhumed at SummitviHe was not right one. Is it my business to have all these bodies exhumed, one after another, or Is it your business to have them all taken up at once?" "Somebody's to blame, and we wish to know who." said Vilas Whaley, a friend of Lieutenant Collins. "It looks very much as if they placed the bodies in coffins cof-fins and then sent one indiscriminately to each of the 111 addresses." |