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Show Witness in Lepke Case Is Found in Morgue Brother Identifies Body Taken From Shallow Grave as That of Irving Mandel ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, Dec. 12 (UP) They found Irving Mandel, one of the long-sought witnesses against the gangster Louis Pepke Buchalter, today, but he wont be of much use to the government. govern-ment. Hes been In the morgue a week. Another of the Mandel brothers, Benjamin, who runs a ticket brokerage brok-erage business In New York, made the identification at 2 a. m. It wasn't easy to do. Irving had been sprinkled with quicklime. Some hunters' dogs rooted the body out of a shallow grave in the woods near Folsom last week. There was a bullet hole la the head, two knife wounds In the back anr the face was bashed in. Benjamin and, David Mandel said they hadn't seen their brother broth-er Irving for 15 months. They described him as a gambler and said the last time they saw him he was working In a New Jersey night dub. What was left ot the body has a coat of sun tan, and they believed Irving probably had been In Florida the 15 months the federal bureau ot investigation investiga-tion was hunting him. Mandel has gone the way of six or eight other old associates of Buchalter, now on trial in federal fed-eral court oa narcotics charges. |