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Show hi li H s 9 ii v ATGRAVE Young Man Taken Into Custody During His Wife's Funeral Melrose, Mass., June 16. Howard G. Gurney, a prominent young politician here, is in Jail today on chargos of forgery. His arrest came as the dramatic dra-matic climax to the funeral exercises over the body of his wife, who died this week. The carriage containing Gurney was Just passing tho grave of his wife, Into which the last shovelful of earth was falling, when policemen, ocr cupylng a carriage Just behind him in the funeral procession, placed the young man under arrest, The funeral was attended "by tho entire countryside, Mrs. Gurney having hav-ing been prominent socially and the daughter of Mayor Eugene H. Moore As a mark of respect during her funeral fu-neral all the city buildings and most of the stores were closed. |