The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-10-24

DO Burned.
From the Milwaukee America, CT. 10.
For the sake Of the fair fame Of tn. city the repu
taon OF the better portion Of cizes who profess
20 be Christians and enlightened e,pe we should like
and blotted from the list Of horrible acts of which
city has too long been the Bat this is impossible
Of country and the whole civilized community have
fhuddered with horror at the terrible thoughts sug
gested and sny atempo to up apologize fol-
its enormty, would make us, In degree parties to it.
Yesterday afternoon, Immediately after dinner, we
startled by the information from citizen Of the
First ward that at that man by the name OF
Pie resident Of the First ward and who lives in
of the elegant dwellings upon the lake bluff the North
Point plank road was preparing pile of wood and other
wife, who died the night before We could scarcely be-
tve 1t anything but hoax. We, however, repaired
to the Office of the Sheriff and found that ii was
true and that sheriff Conoyer Under Sheriff Beck and
their deputies had already gone to the of this hea
then funeral.
On arriving at the house found sight that proba-
bly, never before met the eye of an American. The
heather Ifeil bad got gang of men at work drawing
sixteen CORDS Of wood and arranging IT upon the Lake
the body Of his wife scarcely cold according to his land
he says her ideas Of burial There the shaw
oiwood 1t was sight to make Christian blood cold
and civilized and enlightened minds shrink with horror,
at the contemplation of the moral depravity that in
broad day light should attempt such ungodly act
We anxious to see the who thus bedyiled
and beheathened and found him in remonstrance with
Sheriff Conover and stouty claiming his right to burn
his wife he had laid out But the sheriff told him that
it could not be done this community and at took
charge of matters and changed the programme. Acting
In concert with tfei man whose names our ct
will be shocked with wonder to hear, Mr. Wendt
He also claimed the full right of M Pei to burn his wife
and said TO the sheriff that he had business to inter
fere He present to assist Mr. Pfei in the heahenh
rights of burning.
The body lay upon table enveloped in shroud, all
ready to be carried out at the back door and placed upon
the pile.
The Sheriff told the that if he should persist in
any such attempt to outrage the cherished moral sen
ments of the city, that the pile had been half
sumed there would be maddened crowd about him that
would put him also upon the cracking flames to meet
doom not entirely unjust for his monstrous crime But
talk and remonstrance could convince him or Mr.
wendt that they had not perfect right to perform
morality might dictate. They said I" there law
against it in Wisconsin, and might have had weight
with fools and heathens, but those who know all law
comes from the moral sense of the community, and
should be the congeation of public sentiment were not
prepared to listen to such stuff.
At length the Sheriff ordered coffin and hearse to
give the woman decent and Christian burial. This
Pfeil doggedly and tacy assened to, by this time
large crowd Of people had conggated around the house
not without all the while reterating his right to burn
her and his determination to do the officers would
permit it. Mr. Conover offered to allow him any form of
ceremony, any peculiar mode Of funeral rite but the
heathenish mode he had chosen But he would give
directions and consent to nothing Mr. Wendt said
'Gentlemen it makes difference with If cannot
60 on in our way"
As soon as the coffin came the Sheriff ordered the
corpse put into it, and wisely stood over IT till it was
by helped place the coffin in the hearse and it moved
away followed by carriage containing only the infa
nous husband of the dead eve think Mr. Wendt got
into the carriage together with Dr. Young afterwards
Sheriff Connover and Under Sheriff Beck went to the
burial place and the body safely put into Chris
tian tomb and away from the hands of the moral
ster who had lived long in the sight of churches and
school houses and rned better than to do the
natives upon the banks of the Ganges the Indus.
Thus ended the most outrageous attack upon the mo-
rality of community made-worse If possible,
than the shooting of the lamented Adams.
Pfe calls himself Russian and we believe is q man
of property and education His house ia elegant one
and filed with the airs Of luxury and elegance His wife
is said to have been born Brahmin lady of culture
and refinement although Pe says she repeatedly direct
ed him to burn her body when dead she having been sick
for three years
If it had been drunken creature, we should not
have wondered much; but educated man, and
backed by such citizen Mr.. wendt is surprising be-
yond measure
But do not like to let this matter rest here There
is something dark and covered up in this affair which
calls for coroners inquest and should be held to-
day upon the body Public sentiment demands that such
outrage should be sed to the dregs and if any mi
putty has been transacted 1t should be erreted out Let
the matter be taken in hand once and the body taken
from the vault and full examination had of that and
the facts connected with the DEATH
After this has been DONE let some steps be taken by
which II shall be asceraned whether there Is not
mode of converting the heather in our midst.