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Show Open Coffin to Take Buddy's Finger Prints A coffin was opened recently at Pueblo, Colo., just as the grave yawned to receive it, to get the finger prints of a former service man to accompany his application for adjusted compensation. Friends of John MeNichol, of Durango, Colo., were grouped, about the grave when an automobile drove up and a group of American Legion men stepped from it. They made known their request, re-quest, which was complied with. During his last hours McNicliol'a friends made out his application papers for compensation. He was so weak that he could only affix a scrawled mark to the papers in the presence of witnesses. At the last minute it was discovered that his finger prints had not been obtained and the posthumous fin ger prints were taken. |