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	Coffin affair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Coffin affair was an event in Canadian history which occurred in June 1953 in Gaspesie, Quebec, when three men from Pennsylvania were reported missing.
		Coffin was sent to trial in July 1954 and the evidence against him was, at best, circumstantial.
		Coffin was hanged at Montreal's Bordeaux Prison on February 10, 1956.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coffin_affair (253 words)

	A Norfolk tribute to HRH The Queen Mother
		The coffin, draped in the Queen Mother's standard and surmounted by her crown, was driven from Westminster Abbey to Windsor Castle where it was being interred this evening alongside that of her beloved husband King George VI.
		The Queen Mother's coffin was taken from Westminster Hall to Westminster Abbey accompanied by the skirl of 128 pipers, borne on the same gun carriage used for her husband George VI's funeral 50 years ago.
		The royal matriarch's coffin was slowly carried along the abbey's centre aisle, down which she walked 79 years ago, at 11.30am on April 26 1923, as a royal bride.
	www.edp24.co.uk /QueenMother/asp/020409Funeral1.asp (2013 words)

	Book Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Coffin tended to Brewster and the Yale governing authorities with meticulous attention, while Brewster and the Yale faculty fully understood how much Coffin's sympathy with the anti-war mood of the campus helped keep relative peace on campus during that tumultuous time.
		Coffin understood that and chose opposition to the draft, rather than to the war itself, as his cause in the late 1960s.
		Even though the privileged youth to whom Coffin was ministering were escaping the draft in disproportionate numbers, leaving most of the fighting and dying to less-well-off young men, Coffin used their fears of having to serve to mobilize for his cause.
	www.coralgablescongregational.org /2004-pages/waren-book-review.html (1364 words)

	injusticebusters 2003 > > Wilbert Coffin: Innocent hanged?
		A number of pieces of evidence against Coffin are circumstantial, and there is neither conclusive proof nor a confession from the accused.
		Coffin is accused of the murder of one of the hunters, Richard Lindsay, because the penal code prohibits an accused from being tried for more than one murder in the same trial.
		Several observers credit the Coffin Affair with helping change public opinion toward capital punishment, which ultimately led to the abolition of the death penalty in Canada.
	www.injusticebusters.com /2003/Coffin_Wilbert.htm (655 words)

	The Master Detective (Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles) [no accents] Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Last night the coffin had been brought downstairs and placed in the large drawing-room, the scene of many a brilliant function, although by day it was a somewhat dreary apartment.
		The duplicate coffin had been made at Harwich, for a yachtsman who was to be taken abroad to be buried, they had explained, but it was brought to Queen's Square and hidden in the small drawing-room as Quarles had surmised.
		His affairs were in perfect order, he was shortly to be married, and the only person who suggested that he had looked in any way worried recently was the junior clerk, Small."" ""What of the woman he was to have married?"" ""She was a Miss Lester, and she introduces a complication.
	www.richread.com /067msdt10.html (24208 words)

	The Two Burials of John Paul Jones
		But first the coffin was draped in an American flag and given a formal farewell in the streets of Paris.
		Jones' coffin sat nearly a year at Annapolis until the next grand ceremony was held on April 24, 1906.
		In 1913 his coffin was finally placed in an ornate sepulchre beneath the chapel at Annapolis.
	www.seacoastnh.com /jpj/burial.html (1465 words)

	Napier on the Iceman 1973 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Iceman affair in fact can be regarded as a logical culmination of a trend that started when the name of Bigfoot was first attached to a commercial enterprise.
		The story of the Minnesota Iceman is a tortuous affair, principally because of the maneuvers of the 'owner' of the Iceman exhibit, Frank D. Hansen.
		The official disclaimer by no means ended my personal interest in the affair but it seemed to me that in view of what we had learned, it was only proper that the Smithsonian should be taken off the hook before it was too late.
	www.n2.net /prey/bigfoot/articles/napiertake.htm (5740 words)

	The Natural Death Handbook, Chapter Six - Green, Cheap and diy funerals
		A coffin is said by some to be required for transporting the corpse, but a choice may be exercised to use nothing, or a shroud, the person's own clothes, or some other alternative, such as basket from willow or sustainable ossier beds, cardboard or carpet.
		Coffin construction: The coffin must be made of wood or a wood by-product which, when placed in a cremator and subjected to the accepted cremation processes, is easily combustible and which does not emit smoke, give off toxic gas or leave any retardant smears or drips after final combustion.
		No coffin shall be accepted unless it bears adequate particulars of the identity of the deceased person therein [eds: normally this would include the name, age and date of death of the person].
	www.globalideasbank.org /natdeath/ndh6.html (16498 words)

	www.charlesmhlauri.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The answer is that CAPS offered to buy the same type of coffin for all the three, but at least in Blessing's case, the family opted to top up the amount of money that was offered and buy the coffin that he was buried in.
		After all three bodies had arrived, their coffins were carried into the hall by sobbing team mates, the undertakers struggling to open a way through the surging crowd.
		The three coffins were laid side by side at the front of the hall before various football and CAPS officials and other dignitaries.
	members.aol.com /amazulu49/Charlesmhlauri/News8.html (2260 words)

	BookPage Fiction Review: Mysteries Roundup
		Coffin first made his appearance in 1960(!), in Death Lives Next Door, as a callow young police inspector; over the years he has moved up through the ranks to his current position as Chief Commissioner of Police of London's mythical Second City.
		Coffin's latest appearance finds him in the throes of middle age, recovering from a gunshot wound, perhaps winding down a bit.
		There are, however, a few ghosts in Coffin's closet, not as safely tucked away as he had hoped.
	www.bookpage.com /0112bp/fiction/mystery_roundup.html (590 words)

	Last Ride to Heiligenkreuz
		He gave this permission on the grounds that she "had committed suicide because of a temporary loss of her senses" (the same argument would be used to convince Pope Leo XIII in the case of Rudolf).
		Her grave was 20 meters from the mortuary and all that were present helped to let the coffin down in the grave.
		The copper coffin was broken and when the fathers of the monastery repaired the grave they saw a small skeleton in the damaged coffin.
	www.xs4all.nl /~androom/dead/story004.htm (2101 words)

	A Story of Boy Meets Other Boy
		Two coffins lay within the dark cellar which was within the mysterious, foreboding mansion which rested on a high and craggy cliff.
		It was an elaborately carved affair, the coffin as opposed to the story which is not an affair - yet, complete with cherubs, vines, and other cutesy nonsense which Disney did not own just yet.
		Never mind that it was his insistence in sealing shut his coffins at sunup and blowing them to smithereens at sundown that had led to her demise.
	members.tripod.com /spndxmiko/boys.html (3896 words)

	The Chesapeake-Leopard Affair - Norfolk Highlights - Chapter 30
		The prelude and epilogue of the Chesapeake-Leopard affair that came close to causing hostilities between the United States and Great Britain took place in Norfolk.
		As his body was ferried across the river to the County Wharf, all of the American vessels in the harbor displayed their colors at half mast, while minute guns were fired by the artillery on shore.
		The cortege was made up of the coffin accompanied by masters of vessels in the harbor who had been selected as pallbearers, borough officials and military companies, and captains, mates, and seamen from other vessels.
	www.norfolkhistorical.org /highlights/30.html (659 words)

	CD Review of Jeff Coffin Mu'tet - Bloom on Compass Records @ jazzreview.com
		Jeff Coffin had to coin the word "Mu'tet" (which is a mutation of the word "mutation") to describe the group in total.
		"The Evil Boweevil" is a bluesy affair with Coffin using a harmonizer with his tenor sax.
		Coffin plays around with interesting time signatures on "The Mad Hatter Rides Again" which is a funky James Brown kind of offering.
	www.jazzreview.com /cdreview.cfm?ID=9202 (384 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Eschatology
		In the first place, then, life in its fullness, unending life with 0siris, the sun-god, who journeys daily through the underworld, even identification with the god, with the right to be called by his name, is what the pious Egyptian looked forward to as the ultimate goal after death.
		The departed are habitually called the "living"; the coffin is the "chest of the living", and the tomb the "lord of life ".
		It is not merely the disembodied spirit, the soul as we understand it, that continues to live, but the soul with certain bodily organs and functions suited to the conditions of the new life.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/05528b.htm (5682 words)

	Coffin's Ghost is available from Bestprices.com Books!
		GUILT BY ASSOCIATION Sometimes the door to the past opens gently -- other times, with a terrible bang, and for John Coffin, it is the latter when a package marked with his initials is opened to reveal a woman's severed arms and legs.
		Coffin's own dark suspicion is that the limbs belong to someone with whom he had a brief affair during a rocky time in his marriage.
		When a second woman is found shot to death in her car, Coffin begins to suspect those closest to his wife, Stella Pinero, a famous actress who still manages to keep her own husband guessing at her secrets.
	bestprices.com /cgi-bin/vlink/0373264437BT?source=yahooshopping (183 words)

	Bahai News -- Independent News - Stark reminder of private tragedy behind public furore
		Behind a coffin the colour of light oak, wreathed with a single swathe of white roses and lilies, came four women.
		Yesterday she and her twin, Ellen, 30, and their elder sister Sian, 32, were there before the same vicar, the Rev Roy Woodhams, but this time his white stole was worn as a symbol of hoped-for resurrection rather than celebration.
		The coffin, which was topped with a blue cushion bearing the purple ribbon of Dr Kelly's CMG, a Foreign Office award, was carried by family members.
	www.uga.edu /bahai/2003/030807-2.html (1004 words)

	BBC News \| SOUTH ASIA \| Coffin scandal rages in India
		Both houses of parliament were adjourned over the affair which centres on a report that the government paid vastly inflated sums for coffins for soldiers killed in Kashmir in 1999.
		It said that an order for 500 coffins was made with the company Buitron and Baize to be delivered in consignments.
		When the first batch of coffins was delivered, it was discovered to be sub-standard and that led to the cancellation of the order for the remaining 350.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/1703495.stm (495 words)

	COURT TV ONLINE - TRIALS
		Villella confessed to killing his 28-year-old wife Exelee, but his lawyer says he was so distraught over his wife's affair and plans to leave him that it was a crime of passion.
		Exelee was in fact carrying on an affair with a married co-worker in the months leading up her death.
		Villella said his wife had "changed," and that he'd suspected she was having an affair.
	www.courttv.com /trials/taped/villella/background.html (2506 words)

	The dying game - smh.com.au
		These begin with a coffin, but can quickly stretch to storage fees, funeral directors' fees, transfer-of-body fees, mortuary fees, limousine hire, clergy fees, floral tributes, newspaper notices and an undertaker's princely demand for up to $1000 for anything that comes under the ubiquitous heading "disbursements".
		"To a very large extent the profit in a funeral lies in the purchase of a coffin, because that is where the funeral director can say to you: 'Did you get on with your dad, did you love him?' Of course, what are you going to reply?" says Russell.
		For instance, though there are six coffin makers in NSW it is unusual for an ordinary consumer to shop from any of them, though there is no legal impediment to stop them from doing so.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/09/29/1033283386877.html (2217 words)

	Thousands expected to file past Reagan's coffin - World - www.smh.com.au
		Washington: Borne by fl hearse, presidential jet and horse-drawn caisson, Ronald Reagan's flag-shrouded coffin travelled from California to the US Capitol on Wednesday, where political leaders and thousands of people gathered for a glimpse of the procession.
		The 40th president's final trek eastward was a tightly choreographed affair marked by solemn images of military pomp and a bereft widow.
		It was a sight many people were seeing for the first time: a dead president's flag-draped coffin, followed by a riderless horse and lines of ramrod-straight military honour guards.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/06/10/1086749841458.html?from=moreStories (290 words)

	Flumcake On-Line: Life, Death and the Rising Price of Cheese Toasties
		Fortunately this was real life so nothing silly happened like the coffin opening and the body falling out and rolling down the bus, knocking down the passengers coming on.
		As we got the rather worse for wear corpse into it's coffin, the front of the pantomime horse and the clown asked if it was their turn now.
		As we arrived at the plot, knackered from pulling the coffin behind us, we realised that the lid had fallen open once more and the corpse was once more enjoying the benefits of being free from the shackles of wood.
	members.fortunecity.com /flumcake/flumcake/oldflum/funeral.htm (2104 words)

	Condit Does Not Admit Affair [Free Republic]
		He can't admit to having an affair with Chandra, or the flight attendant or the preachers daughter or the California intern.
		The problem is, that there have been leaks the last few days that his advisors were begging him to admit the affair and apologize, and wrote several drafts of the letter to that affect.
		Well, the real news was that some of them were so sick and frail that they had to be propped up from behind and battery operated devices (or so the rumour went) had to be attached to their arms to do the waving.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3b857a244f6d.htm (4417 words)

	CBC News: Arafat's coffin arrives in Cairo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The flag-draped coffin, accompanied by Arafat's widow Suha, was taken from a military helicopter to an official French aircraft, which left for Cairo, where a military funeral is planned for Friday.
		Egyptian workers were busy on Thursday preparing for the funeral service, which will be a high-security affair at the Galaa Club, a suburban Cairo compound that includes a hospital, mosque and social club for armed forces officers.
		Arafat's coffin will be stone, said Fatah official Azzam al-Ahmed, in the hopes that one day his body can be moved to the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
	www.cbc.ca /story/world/national/2004/11/11/arafat-travel-041111.html (686 words)

	AlarminglyStrangeStories.com - A Grim Affair
		Anyhow He thinks draining the last few drops of coffee from his cup Business before pleasure It was time for him to start on the masses of paperwork that the Government required.-copies of death certificate, burial arrangements and the final release form-this was all his responsibility.
		This was the best coffin he carried; he chuckled to himself as he recalled her poor husband.
		Now it was time for him to retrieve his prize the ear rings, but wait one was missing, it must have fallen off whilst he was removing the body.
	theweirdcrap.com /stories/2005/print/grim.html (1104 words)

	SparkNotes: As I Lay Dying: Plot Overview
		Her oldest son, Cash, puts all of his carpentry skills into preparing her coffin, which he builds right in front of Addie’s bedroom window.
		Although Addie’s health is failing rapidly, two of her other sons, Darl and Jewel, leave town to make a delivery for the Bundrens’ neighbor, Vernon Tull, whose wife and two daughters have been tending to Addie.
		Addie herself, speaking either from her coffin or in a leap back in time to her deathbed, recalls events from her life: her loveless marriage to Anse; her affair with the local minister, Whitfield, which led to Jewel’s conception; and the birth of her various children.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/asilay/summary.html (963 words)

	Sunday Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The platinum was more of an à la carte affair with the cost depending on whether you wanted such little extras as a horse-drawn hearse or white doves of peace released at the graveside.
		Just to be on the safe side they did not carry the coffin, but trolleyed it from church to hearse.
		She also provided a bucket of felt-tip pens for friends and family to write a farewell message on the coffin at the end of the service.
	www.sundayherald.com /print39586 (1487 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Coffin Dancer (A Lincoln Rhyme Novel) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Rhyme is called in to track down a contract killer, known as the Coffin Dancer, who has been hired to eliminate three witnesses in the upcoming federal trial of Philip Hansen.
		The Coffin Dancer is known for his creativity, adaptability and persistence (you cannot change your mind once you have hired him).
		A contract killer known as the Coffin Dancer has been hired to eliminate three employees of an air charter company after they are marked to testify in a grand jury investigation of another shady underworld character.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671024094?v=glance (2701 words)

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