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Show Beburial f or Kiel's Remains. - Winnipeg,' December 10. Riel's remains were brought here last night from Regina by two Catholic priests in a private car. The movement was secret and there was no person per-son at the station on the arrival of the train. The car was run across the river to St. Boniface. Boni-face. There Riel's brother Alexander and a number of half -breeds placed the body on a . sleigh and drove it to his mother's home at St. Vitel, where the family were in waiting. The box was opened, disclosing a face somewhat some-what blackened and slightly disfigured. The i house was draped in black. The funeral will take place Saturday. The body will be brought to St. Boniface Cathedral where ! a requiem mass will be celebrated, and ! then the remains will be buried beside Riel's father in the St. Boniface Catholic cemetery. ' - |