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Show --.'.'X ;G?",bxj3 -fiIAN ARE , i-jLB BV; a junk dealer ' , Douzlit Them if Sale for $2: and , HowJ. Refuses to : " Give Them Up. OMAHA. Neb.. Oct- 19. Mark Moses, a Jewish Junk dealer 'of Omaha. Is In possession of the mortal part of Robert Haupstuck, a noted German professor, who died jrt Alameda,-Cal, last December, Decem-ber, an d whose body was reduced, to ashes" in the crematory at Oakland, In that State, a few'days later. Moses paid 12 for the ashes and the metal receptacle In which they repose, and he stoutly refuses re-fuses to give up the ashes unless he is paid several hundred dollars' for them. Last. January Mrs. Otllla Haupstuck. wife of Prof. Haupstuck. set out from' Alameda for Germany with the artiee of her husband. Intending to bury them at his former home In the fatherland. Mrs. Haupstuck was taken violently ill of pneumonia 'on her way East and when she arrived here was taken to St. Joseph's hospital, where she died January. Janu-ary. 2L Papers among her, effect showed that she was on her way to Germany Ger-many with the remains .of her husband. A search was made for the body of the professor, but no trace of It could be found. After several weeks, however, it developed that the body had been cremated cre-mated and the ashes we're found in Mrs. , Haupstuck's trunk. Th body of Mrs. Haupstuck was burled here under Instructions from relatives rel-atives in Germany. Then the Probate ; court appointed a special administrator of her estate, which comprised, among other things, a draft for $2600. By order of the court the effects of Mrs. Haupstuck Haup-stuck were sold by Special Administrator Adminis-trator Day. Mark Moses, the Junk deal, er, bought among other things, a little metallic casket, paying $2 for it. When he opened it he found it contained what looked to him like some sort of powder, but which turned sut to be the ashes of Prof. Haupstuck. - Moses, with an eye to business, refuses to give up the ashes. He maintains that , he bought them and they are his. He confessed that a man whose name he does not know offered him $200 for them, but he would not sell them for that The courts will probably have to adjust the matter. 1 |