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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1805, 18 July 1913, Page 7

At Edinburgh, a firm of undertakers were awarded .£lll burial expenses, with costs, against, the estate of "The Great' Lafayette," tlio music-hall artist who.perished in a theatro firo in that city. "Lafayette's" dog was, at _ liis instructions, embalmed by a qualified surgeon, placed in a zinc coffin, enclosed in ail onlc shell with satin lining and silvered mountings. and buried ill a costly tomb. Thorn was an extraordinary display at the burial of "Lafayette," the undertakers claiming to have been instructed to give him a "showman's funeral." Tho Judge sai-1 that an admission by the deceased man's brother that "Lafayette" lived and died a showman was the key to tlio' wlholc question of tho reasonableness or cthorwißo of the expenses,