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Show Coffin Ghouls Are Arrested fey the Government NEW YORK, Oct 22. In an investigation investi-gation here of activities of alleged "coffin ghouls" the federal authorities today caused the arrest of two undertakers under-takers on charges of attempting to defraud de-fraud the government. The undertakers, it is alleged by representing to relatives of dead soldiers sol-diers that the government coffins in which the bodies of soldiers were jju D. shipped home were "cheap pine boxes" ' R H secured orders for expensive caskets iifH and then appropriated the government nilm coffins, in somo cases re-selling them iffllPr to tho government. "Tho cheap pine ill If, boxes" cost the government $36 each. fill The "coffin ghouls" are said to have lilt reaped a rich harvest since tho Span- ish influenza began taking its toll in imm the training camps, and Beveral more 'III undertakers are said to bo under Inves- III titration here. ilfEl |