The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-08-15

Big Pine Key many times since
moving to Zephryhills.
It has been confirmed that a To-
cal hardware store was accustom-
ed to cashing checks as high as
$500 paid to W Cosel by the Ger
man government for services in
the past.
81 believe that Elena was never
put in that vault at alp. Perez
stated. ut was probably that dunn
my he made of wax and plaster of
Paris which they found over in
Zephyrhills. He made the bust and
a mask. modelling it while Elena
was still alive. One reason was to
fool her family so that IL anyone
saw the real body he could substi-
tute this image and say that Is
what they had seen. think this
is true because I saw the real body
in the plane only five months after
Elena died. ! touched it. and It
was soft. not just made of wax
then. I told her family. but they
did not believe me-"
Perez went on to tell how he was
patrolling the area near the Marine
hospital and was curious about the
plane in the yard. Every time he
approached it Won Cosel would get
angry.
Zone day he stuck his head out
Of the little window Of the plane
and yelled at me to stay away from
the plane because it was charged
with electricity. That made me sus-
picious more than ever. So soon
after that. and this was about five
months after Elena was supposedly
buried the first time in q regular
grave. (and before the fancy tomb
was built). ! decided to investigate.
! pulled barrel over to the plane
and stood up On II. When I looked
In ] saw something like a body all
covered up. So ] went inside the
plane. There was the body all care
fully wrapped in strips of gauze
and some Gotten cloth, wound all
srOund like 4 mummy but with the
face showing, If scared me 1T first
He had put Ia big black glass eyes
wide open. and her black hair. II
was easy to recognize Elena.
There was no odor. I touched the
arms and legs and they were soft
under the wrapping, but the shoul-
ders were dry like q mummy's."
Perez called the sister, Mrs. Me-
dina and told her what he had
found. She replied that he was mis-.
taken, that what he had seen was
only the image the doctor" had
made and that the family knew
about It. Perez said he could not
convince the Hoyos family at all
and that they insisted on letting
the matter drop. In fact, when Won
Cosei moved the plane to his first
residence at Butchers Pen, over
on what ID now Rest Beach, an
other relative by marriage. q man
whose son had married Mana Hoy
os, the youngest sister of Elena.
lowed the plane with his truck.
Again at that time told Florin-
"a Medina, Your siser is still in
tnat plane But they could not
think of Won Cosel as . sexual man.
lac. They thought of him only as
q benefactor. Even before she was
taken to the hospital, I used 70
drive her and her sister over TO,
the hospital where Won Cosel would
inject some shots Of vitamins and
other medicines with which he was
treating Elena. He was in love
with her. yes. But she did not re-
turn the love. She was a very sick
woman and she was willing to try
any help even though she womb
have nothing to do with him as =
lover"
Perez said that Cosel told him
when the body was discovered that
he wanted to build a glass coffin
and travel about the country lee.
turing and putting Elena on dis.
play. That old man was crazy, but
ne thought 1t would be q way to
make money. This viii be . great
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