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Show BLACK CAP OF DEATH FOUND UPON BODIES Hangman's Noose Still Around Necks of Soldiers Buried in France. EMBALMER IS WITNESS Discovery Follows Prepara-tion Prepara-tion of Corpses For Ship-ment Ship-ment to America. WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. Rufus P Hubbard of New York, employed by the American Graves Registration service In preparing bodies of American Amer-ican soldiers for shipment from Prance, told a senate committee today to-day that on three bodies disinterred he found a rope around the neck of each and a black cap ver each face. Called as the first witness at the resumption of the hearings of the Committee investigating charges by Senator Watson. Democrat, Georgia, hat American soldiers were handed without trial in France. Hubbard, an assistant embalmer, declared there was nothing In the coffins by which the bodies could be Identified. "The bodies were identified by the j cross on the outside of the coffin and tho black caps were not removed be- I fore the bodies were shipped to the United States for burial," Hubbard testified. |