Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1871-05-10
CLEARFIELD, PA, WEDNESDAY, MAY TO- 1871

1t is not tho actual expense of getting
the thing; it is the mechanism, Tho
form the conceiving tho idea; il il
not the bit of wood itself.
Q.-What were the expenses of hel
husbands and sons funerals? Al
do not remember; they were alto
gether different funerals from whal
she had. [Laughter.1
Odd you about that time bury
any other person living in house d
about that character A.-If thoy
were living ! did not want to bury
them. Great laughter] In having
the plate glass made | had to take
tho risk of their breaking it. / had
directions to wait Till one was made il
it took q month. Tho coffin and glass
were under way, and the ladies' robe
before she died.
Annie Mulligan testified that she
was sent by her friend Mrs. KilIeron
to Mr.. Therry TO tell him to come
Immediately, so that she could give
instructions as TO her burial, as her
children would not do it after her
death she told Mr.. Therry that it
was no matter how long it took he
was to keep her until be was ready,
and to spare no expense; she also
said she was sorry she had not buried
her husband differently; she told him
to buy better material for trimming
the house than was used at her hus.
bands funeral, as it would be of some
use to mo afterwards; this was two
weeks before her death
Amelia Brondbent testified that she
was employed by Mr.. Therry to make
tho robe. She went to the house of
Mrs. Killoren about three weeks be-
fore her death.
The order was peculiar and the
witness did not want to undertake il.
Mrs Killoren said if witness would
only make it she did not care what it
cost. Witness told her she could not
make il in week. Mrs. Killoren
said "you will have plenty of time for
/ might live three or four weeks yet
You are the first one that would un-
dertake to make it," The robe was
made of brown cloth trimmed with
gros grain silk; Mrs. Kiloren fur.
nished samples of the cloth and told
witness to got II. She said to Mr..
Thcrry, "Now John, | know you will
do it right; just according to my in.
strnctions." She betrayed n deal OF
anxiety. She wanted me, the witness
said, to bring the robe up and let her
see it. took it up tho following
Monday aud told her l should want
more silk She liked what had done
and said it was just what she wanted,
Augustus Martin, wholesale un.
dertaker, testified that he manuiac
tured the caskct, which was an odd
one. Never made one before or since
like it. In the FIRST place it was two
feet two inches wide, rather small
woman, and about six feet four inches
long. 1t was an expensive one, moro
so than usual. The cost Of the glass
plate was SIPS, and witness did not
think there was more percentage OF
profit in the other items of the bill
than there was in that With refer.
ence to length of codins, witness said
that he had sent them to Georgia seven
feet six inches long; they run from
twenty inches 10 six feet four inches,
two inches apart all the way up; the
width is from nine TO thirty inches ;
thought he got $500 for the coffin, and
did not think $3.50 would bo much OF
profit. The witness was unwilling
to tell the profits of his business.
The defendants relied on the testi.
mony of undertakers to show that the
charges were unreasonable. Judge
Sutherland, in his charge 20 the jury,
said he thought the plaintiff was en-
titled to a verdict, and they, without
leaving their seats, gave the plaintiff
his full claim, with interest, amount
ing in all to 81 ,i64 20,