Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-07-14 | Page 6 | Undertaker is an Ex-Convict

UNDERTAKER I T AN EX CONVICT Profiteers ers on Burying Buring Remains Re- Re Remains Remains mains of War Heroes NEW YORK July 14 Violation of or a n contract with the tho United States public health service serIce wh whereby reby an undertaker had burled three former soldiers In one gr grave gravo o In a Lon Long Lone I Is Island I. I land cemetery was disclosed here today T Cemetery records showed also ui that t. t three other veterans who died In Jn a hospital and were unclaimed by relatives rela U c tives were burled buried In a single grave and In two other cases two tw-o former form i soldiers soldier had been Interred d In one o I gra grave vc j Colonel Haskoll Haskel Inspector for tor the o. o I health health service said sad that the tho 1 taker who had been awarded th tlc the I contract contract to bury burO ex men who wh died In tho public health ships was was an nn ex convict ex-convict S A nurse who visited the cemetery to arrange for tor the placing of ot a headstone on tho the grave of ot a forer former soldier friend was responsible for tor tho the In investigation She was told she had O hac better beter arrange to have haye three names name inscribed on the tablet as there three bodies In tho the grave She re reported reported re re- ported portet the matter and State Senator Meyer yesterday demanded the in in- In Health Commissioner Copland asserted as as- j today that there was no state stab I law or regulation which forbade the thc the putting of ot more moro than one body In a single grave The custom in In vogue vogue here for tor fifty years rears if It forbidden forbidden- would use up in a short time all al available burial grounds gounds within th tho city asserted the commissioner