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Show f KEFLEVINS HTS EATHEES CORPSE. ' The body of Frank Szymanaski, 72 ; ' veais old. was renievined in the court ': i.f Justice of the Peace Mullir.s yester- ; i?3v. This action resulted because the .--.lthorities of the county hospital, i v. here Szymanaski died, looked upon f his name and decided that he was a Jew. whereas, in fact he was in life a iroo.1 Polish Catholic. s ' Frank ' Szymanaski lived at No. 92 ! T mAr,r rfi-ojii T--.lvrin. and was nromi- ; rent anions his people. Recently he 1 was taken ill., and, being removed to. .- the county hospital, he 'died. Dec. 9. of , acute pericordiris and pulmonary tu berculosis. The hospital authorities save the body in i-harpe of Undertaker E. K. Hall, who is authorized by the Jewish Furial association, to bury all poor Jews at the expense of the society. Michael Szymanaski, a ranchman, the i cVad man's son. was horrified on learning learn-ing yesterday 1hat his father, a good Polish Catholic, had been mistaken for a Jew, had been handed over, to the official undertaker for indigent Jews j and would in all likelihood be put un- W the prround according to thelites I of the old law. So Michael engaged W. N. Bunson, an undertaker, to take charge of the body, then hurried to Justice Mullins' ' court, where he swore out a writ of replevin for his father's corpse. Constable Con-stable Moore accompanied him to Hall's shop to serve the writ. What occurred at the undertaker's Fhop is in dispute. One party says that Mr. Hall threatened to hold the corpse, even if he had to ive a redelivery bond of $.100. Mr. Hall says that he merely explained the mistake abcut the name . t: Michael., the son. At any rate. Mich- " fiel agreed to allow the corpse to stay there: and the other undertaker had to surrender to Mr. Hall the shroud. The funeral will be held at 10 o'clock thif morning from the Crtholic Church of the Annunciation at Thirty-seventh and Humboldt streets, of which Father llebinson is the pastor. The interment will take place in palvary cemetery. |