Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1926-08-16 | Page 1 | Kitchener Coffin Opened and Found to Hold Only Tar

j i i r c Coffin O ened And Found To Hold Only Tar TarL BONDO L Aug lG Aug lly lG By Till Associated Associate The Press Press The home office toay a ani officially th that t a packing case c at and ald ane d to ry t the c body of the B latS en Kitchener was as found to contain contain The EvenIng Naw N ws arid and a d th thE Press Preas association silted sl staled d that It had learned authoritatively that was there vas no body In the coffin The Exchange Telegraph s sald ld that It had bad been stated on good authority that there thero was no body hody In the casket but added that It was as Impossible to verity verify this nt at present and ani and that the the statement should b be accepted with all 1 re reserve ye- ye serve cerve The Evening Standard quoted on an unnamed official who was present when the coffin was opened as saying There Thre was nothing but tar In the th coffin coUIn No N remains were found round SEEK EEK EEK JOURNALIST After the Investigation ot of the th packing case Chief Constable Wensley and nd the tho detective Super Super- SuperIntendent Superintendent Superintendent Drown Brown went to the home office where they held a lengthy conference with officials and legal advisers ad Scotland Yard officials Immediately immediately sought to get In touch with Frank Power British h news news- newspaper newspaper newspaper paper man who brought the th packing p cl case from Norway wh where re he l said the tho th body body of Lord had bad been picked up 0 at fOr ter the tho sinking of ot th the cruiser I Hampshire COFFIN IS EMPTY FM The statement Issued by the hom home office this morning mornin said The packing case alleged to con eon contain contain tain lain a II coffin cotIn and ond human remains which on Saturday night was removed re- re removed re removed moved by the police pollee from rom an un- un undertaker's undertaker's un undertaker's on Waterloo road to t Lambeth r coroners coroner's roner's court was thi morning opened In Inthe tire the presence of oe Coroner Ingleby Oddie Oddle and Bernard Dernard The rhe case ense was found to contain an empty coffin The Thc coffin corrin was new antI obviously had not contained human remains