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From: Christopher Penrose <penrose@silvertone.princeton.edu>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 23:16:31 EST
Message-Id: <9211060416.AA03571@lespaul>
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
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RICHMOND, Texas (UPI) -- Grand jurors returned an
abuse-of-a-corpse
indictment in a case in which a man's body, covered only by a
sheet, was
dumped outside his son's apartment in a dispute with a funeral
home.
The embalmed body of George Bojarski, 66, a retired
carpenter, was
left on the porch of the Richmond apartment Oct. 12, three
days after he
died of esophagus cancer.
The man's son, Larry Bojarski, said last week he
always will be
haunted by the image of opening his door and seeing his
father's body
wrapped in a sheet and atop a board. The body was nude beneath
the
sheet.
The body was returned because the younger Bojarski did
not pay the
$683 cremation fee. Bojarski, an unemployed cabinetmaker, said
he did
not have enough money and wanted to work out a payment
schedule.
Fort Bend County District Attorney Jack Stern Tuesday
said he could
not reveal the person named in the sealed indictment until the
person
was arrested. The indictment was issued late Monday.
Last week, investigators said they were looking into
whether charges
could be filed against Newell Evans, owner of Evans Mortuary
in
Richmond, which is about 30 miles southwest of Houston.
Evans defended his actions last week, saying Bojarski
insulted him
and refused to pay the money. Evans said he waited for days
with
continued promise of payment before he had the corpse returned
to the
apartment.
The Fort Bend County grand jury also returned no-bills
in assault
allegations filed by Larry Bojarski and one of Evans' nephews,
Allen
Evans, who fought at the apartment complex on Oct. 13.
Larry Bojarski, 37, said the younger Evans, 33,
started the
fistfight, which left Bojarski with a broken thumb and nose.
Evans said
Bojarski had been drinking and threw the first punch.
The two lived at the same apartment complex. Allen
Evans helped
unload the corpse at the Bojarski apartment door.
Bojarski and Newell Evans could not be reached for
comment Tuesday.
Abuse of a corpse is a misdemeanor punishable upon
conviction by a
year in jail and a $3,000 fine. Another funeral home
volunteered to
handle the cremation for the Bojarski family.
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