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Show THREE MEN INDICTED Funeral They Ordered For Hodcarrier Cost Entirely Too Much Belleville, 111 Mar 5 -James Connor Con-nor when alive, carried a hod and worked long and hard to save more tban a thousand dollars His funeral cost his estate' $1100, and because of the great expense three men were ir.dietcd: Jailer Michael Keniley of the east St. Louis iolice station, and acquaintance of Connor s. who directed direct-ed the undertaker to give the hod carrier an expensive funeral: Undertaker Under-taker William H. Degan, who charge) the estate $600 for a caskeL S4 fori shoes $31 for a suit and $10 for fly j nets for tho hearse hor?es. and Public Pub-lic Administrator W. U Halberi who paid the bills from rnnnnr'fl savings The indictments came after exhumation ex-humation showed that the casket was of wood and that the body was without with-out shoes or expensive clothing. |