Thousands Mourned Outside Mayor Washington's bronze coffin, surrounded by white chrysanthemums, rested at the foot of the altar in the new, brightly lit church.

Houdini is entombed in a bronze coffin, the same one he used for an escape stunt on his final tour.

Archbishop McCarrick spoke from a podium enveloped with flowers, just behind Mr. Helmsley's closed bronze coffin.

When the body was taken from the hospital in a bronze coffin about 2 P.M., Mrs. Kennedy walked beside it.

Direct Casket has 40 models, going from a cloth-covered box made out of particle board, for $225, to the top-of-the-line $3,500 solid bronze coffin lined with crepe or velvet.

A massive, 800-pound solid bronze coffin was loaded into a hearse and taken to the hospital.

Jones was buried at Detroit's Woodlawn cemetery in his silver embroidered robe, in a bronze coffin which had had his signature white mink coat placed on it during the services.

The bronze coffin was caked with earth around the handles and in the frill work, but overall it was still shiny.

Houdini, who died of intestinal damage at 52 after a young man slugged him in his rock-hard stomach, is buried in a bronze coffin, not a wooden one like those usually used in Jewish burials.

Hindenburg's bronze coffin was placed in the crypt on 2 October 1935 (the anniversary of his birthday), along with the coffin bearing his wife, which was moved from the family plot.