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Show 10 IDENTIFY MAN IN COFFIN Woolwine Doubts Death of Swindler Doing Time in Prison I.OS ANGELES, Calif. Auc B A coffin on the way from Fort Worth, Texas, to Oakland Calif., said to cor-ta.it) cor-ta.it) the body of Joe Furey conlcted s'.vindler. lntereite.l Thomas Let Wool-Wine, Wool-Wine, district att Okney of Los A.ngeies county so mueh today that he lel.-graphed lel.-graphed the authorities at both cities asklns a positive identification b niaib-. Furcy. whoso wife, or widow, as events may prove, and on, live in Olmdale. a Ix)s Angeles suburb. Is ill' red to have operated hore n a no inber of a band of swindlers. It was in Texas, however, that the law overlook him. There he was sentenced sentenc-ed to serve twenty years In the penli-tenl penli-tenl ary for defrauding J . Frank Sop-fla-'d. a rancher out of $45,000 In a fake stork deal. DEATH REPORTED Reports arriving here were that Fur. v died recet tly in tho Texas prison pris-on a Huntsvilie, but a "dying in prison waa said to he a common truk .-iniong the band headed by Purey, th Los Angeles authorities doubted the. reports. Xo the district iltorney's" office telegraphed tele-graphed to Jess W Drown, distri. t attorney ai Fort srorth. inquiring whether . poeitivo identification of tht body had been made. Mr S3rown replied In the negative adding the body was In a coffin ami on the way to relatives In Oakland r h, n Woolw.Ve telegraphed lo Ezra Decoto, district attorney of Alameda Ala-meda county ai Oakland, asking trti- positive Identification be made before the bi dy wrb Interred it was under-sfoo.l under-sfoo.l he Oakland authorities would open tho caske upon its arrival there |