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...have been merely plugging for her book. But thousands of small Kreuger investors continue to hope that Kreuger will be caught alive. Complaints continue that his corpse was not shown in Paris or Stockholm (which would have settled all doubts) but sent to Sweden in a sealed coffin and privately cremated...
...under suspicion when the Kreuger coffin arrived, Premier Carl Gustaf Ekman of Sweden was later accused of accepting Kreuger money for campaign purposes. He hotly denied this charge at first, then shamefacedly confessed and tendered his resignation to King Gustaf (TIME, Aug. 15). If the Premier of Sweden lied about Ivar Kreuger-so runs the small investors' argument-who knows whether a man with the Great Scoundrel's brains & money could not have "arranged" his suicide and cremation with the petty French and Swedish officials who certified the facts...
...Milwaukee, on a street between two cemeteries, the body of a year-old child, one year dead, was found in an expensive coffin with a nameplate inscribed "Our Darling...
...afternoon of June 3, Arthur Maillefert, 22. of Westfield. N. J., serving nine years for stealing $30. was found strangled to death in the "sweatbox" of Duval County's Sunbeam prison camp. A sweatbox is a windowless outdoor solitary confinement cell little bigger than a coffin. According to Florida law it should be 3 ft. broad. There should be ventilation. Arthur Maillefert. called "Jersey" by his prison mates, had passed the previous evening in the sweatbox naked and inside a barrel out of which he tried to gnaw. He had also used a trusty's knife...
March 12, Henry S. Coffin...