The sun., 1912-08-15
SHOW Of DEATH CHAIR
VICTIMS MUST STOP
Health Department RevOkes
Permit Given to
tndcrtakers.
BCRIALS THIS FORENOON
Story Of SHOW Of Black Handler
Put 10 Death That Had a
IL Days Run.
BrRIALS THIS FORENOON

The Health Department v stertiav re-
voked the permit iss'ied by DR. Alfonso
Blauvelt. sanitar superin endent for
Manhattan. TO Latone 4 Guidetti. the
Italian under,akers at c3s Mulberry =; oct
which allowed them TO keep in their shop
Tor public exhibition until next Saturday
the bodies of the five young Italians put
to death in the electric chair early on
Monday morning for the murder las, No.
vember Of Mrs. Mary Hall in Westchester
county.
Al the Health Department on es and
at Sing Sing prison II was said yesterday
that the officials concerned had no notion
until they read The Sun yesterday that
l.atone 4 Guide;ti were displaying the
bodies for advertising purposes, Or.
Walter {. Bensel sent Dr. Blauvelt to the
underta king shop to investigate and then
summoned Paul Guidetti. the youthful
member Of the undertaking firm. to the
Health Department.
Or. Biauvelt. sanitary superintendent
for Manhattan" said Dr. Bensel yester-
day. ISSUED the permit and DR.. Bensel
sanitary superintendent OF the greater
city. revoked it, told the under'akers
that il they do not bury the bodies bv to-
morrow morning they will be liable TO i'm
prisOnment OF from six months TO a year
, or fine OF $500 and imprisonment. And
II they don't bury them by tomorrow my
department will 60 to the shop and bury
them
shortly after word came from ALBANY
yesterday that the State Prison Depart
ment had begun an investigation OF the
manner in which Latone h Guidetti had
obtained the bodies from the Sing Sing
authorities il was announced TO inQuirers
AZ Sing Sing that Warden Kennedy had
just been called up the State" Under
taker Paul Guidefti told THE SuN reporter
Yesterday that he had obtained the bodies
without trouble al Sing Sing upon present
ing FIVE printed slips Of viii h only the
slip asking for the body Of Salvatore di
Marco contained the signature really a
cross mark signed by Di Marcos brother.
who cannot write-of a relative Of the
dead.
"Guide,ti came here with five slips all
cial Yesterday who spoke for Warden
Kennedy. At least ne said that the sign
ers of the orders for the bodies were rea-
tive-. Section 507 of the Criminal Pro-
cedure saws that we are to turn the bodies
Of executed murderers yer 10 relatives
upon request. II undertaksrs Use the
body of a man for advertising purposes
we cant help it, itS up to your city au-
thOrities to stop it,"
Il told the Sing Sing people plainly
said Paul Guidetti while long lines Of
persons were fling past the bodies yes
the trays resting upon the coffins in which
the five had just been placed that only
Di Marco had relatives in this country and
that the other slips were signed by friends,
It's a damn shame that DR.. Bensel
interfered with us. We won't have q
chance to raise much money now and so
We have to cut out the brass band We were
gong to have at the funeral. Why
didn't Or. Bensel or DR.. Blauvelt inter-
fere with another Italian undertaken on
the East Side who had Black Hand
murder man on exhibition in his store for
twelve days? Itold DR.. Bensei ahon hat
The undertaken stopped the exhibition
few days ago and then shipped the body
to italy,