Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-03
A. .ifecti,.a Scene.

Inc funeral or William 5. POntin, who
on the day set for his marriage to a beau
tiful young woman living in Thirty-third
street, in this city, shot himself on the
deck Of a Hoboken ferry beat, was held
yesterday afternoon in the residence os
his uncle. MIR. Thomas Crofts, at 119
Laymond street, Brooklyn. The parlors
were filled with large company of young
persons, and many who had expected to
attend his wedding gathered about the
coffin. Miss Rose H. Plant, the young
woman left desolate by the suicide, sat,
dressed in deep mourning, at the head of
the coffin. with her hanls clasped togetll-
er as in the attitude of prayer. A heavy
Grape veil was draped abou. her face,
throwing into strong relief her light blue
eyes and the tresses of light hair that fell
about her face. Her eyes moved rest
lessly, and she seemed to be crazed with
grief which could not find vent in tears.
She kept up a continuous low moan.
saying: "Oh, my darling! Oh, my dar-
lingn'
Her mother sat close to her, and young
Pontin's brother sat behind her, almost
broken-bearted.
The coffin-lid was off, and the body
seemed wonderfully life like. An anchor
OF tuberoses and geranium leaves, en-
twined with similar, rested on the cof-
fin lid.
The Rev. H. r. Nye, the pastor of the
Clermont-avenue Universalist Church,
who was to have married young Pontin
to Miss Rose Plant, conducted the serv-
ices, He read from the scriptures, and
then read, by request, beautiful bit of
poetry, expressing the sadness of saying
the last tarwell in his address he said that
ne violated no propriety when he spoke
OF the fact that the young man who had
gone out from the circle of that house
had died by his own hand. A wild moan
filled the parlors, coming from the lips
OF the young woman thus bereft of her
lover She said: "Oh, oh, my Godw and
more that was unintelligible
The minister was choked with emotion,
but he soon proceeded in consoling words
AS he spoke OF the desolation of the chos-
en- bride, she knelt by the ceffin, and then
arose and kissed passionately the pale lips
of the corpse.
I AS the company filed by the coffin, Miss
Plant scanned the face of each person.
Her eyes were CLASSY and fearless. As
one lady reached gIoved hand into the
coffin to arrange the dress, she grasped
the hand and pushed it forcibly aside, say
ing: "He's mine,-my darling" Then
she clasped the dead face between her
hands, as though it was lying in her lap.
!, She spoke in soft, musical tones, which
expressed such intense despair that those
who saw and heard her were at once
moved to tears
AS the undertaken drew near to close up
the coffin, the young woman uttered a
prayer, and all bowed in deepest silence,
broken only by the violent sobbing of
those in intimate sympathy with her. She
then took up the head of her lover and
covered it with kisses. She chung to the
body 80 long that it was necessary to take
her away by force. AS she was lead to a
seat, she refused to take her eyes off the
coffin. Turning to her companion, she
said "Oh, they have otcovered him vet :"
and then she added, almost in whisper,
"Dont you think that 1 could get Just one
more kiss2"
Pont1n's father, in this scene, reeled
about like man intoxicated, and fell
into his wife's arms. Mrs. Plant tainted
Miss Plant followed the body to Green
wood Cemetery, where it was buried, Her
friends greatly fear the consequences of
the shock to her.
No light has yet been shed on the mys-
terry of the suicide. The only reasonably
theory advanced is that something occur,
red on the day of the suicide in the resi-
, dence of his intended bride, at 3O7 Eas,
Thirty-third street, this city His broth
, er-in-law, Mr.. Thomas Burch, saw him al
two o'clock on the afternoon on which he
killed himself. He gave him wedding
| present, with which he started to Miss
Plants house. At four o'clock he killed
himself. At two o'clock he was in good
< spirits, and there was nothing to indicate
, that ne did not expect the greatest hap
, plness from his marriage-.N. Y. SIN.