Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-15
FIGHTING OVER A BODY.
An Unseemiy Quarrel In the Public Stree
The Coffin Handles Torn OF.

| An Unseemiy Quarrel In the Public Streets
| The Coffin Handles Torn of.
Amsterdam (N. ~ Democrat.
Yesterdays Daily Democrat contained
the simple announcement of the death O
David Snyder, father OF DR.. w. Z. Snyder,
of Amsterdam. Mr.. Snyder passed away
the Utica insane asylum. 1t is said to
have been his frequent request to be buried
beside his first wife and children at Hart
ford, Conn. His son, DIR. Snyder, desired
to carry O;lt his fathers wish as he believ-
ed it to be, and was intending to tako the
remains OH the 1928 train to-day to that
! ago David Snyder married for his sec
| ond wife Maria, daughter of Peter Hover
of Port Jackson. He lived with her only
| about Il year, when 4 recurrence of his
trouble of insanity clouded his mind, and
rendered his removal to the asylum ncces-
| sary. This was accomplished only by re-
courccs to law, as the Hovers were opposed
to his removal. When Mr.. Snyder died,
his wife, Maria. aid her family desired to
have him bur..d in Green Hill cemetery.
Dr. Snyder went to Utica for tho remains,
bringing them to Amsterdam yesterday
afternoon in 4 handsome black walnut
caskct with silver ornaments. DR.. Snyder
was prevailed upon to allow the funeral to
take place at Mr.. Hovcr's residence, near
Port jackson, where his fathers widow
is lying i'll and not expected long to live.
The funeral services took place this
morning, the Rev. John Minor, assisted by
the Rev. y. w. Dayton, officiating. Here
it was perceived that trouble was brewing,
for there were two sets of bearers, and, at
the close of the service the HOvers were
unwilling that DR.. Snyder should take
charge of the remains. All unscemly con-
tcntiOn arose and waxcd very warm, but
the matter WIS compromised by allowing
the body to be carried to tho hearsc, tho
idea being to have tho remains deposited
in the cemetery vault until the question
was settled by due process Of law. Tho
Hovcrs claim that DR.. Snyder promised to
allow this to be done, but he says that he
was under durcss and only gave 4 evasivc
answer, viz: "Wcll, so on up.'
Be this as it may, the procession came
from Hovcr's residence to Main street.
Amsterdam, when it came to halt, rs
DIR. Snyder wished to drive down Railroad
street to the depot, and the other party mp
Church street to the cemetery. After \
fierce wrangIc. DR.. Snyder mounted the
hcarsc himself and drove to the depot,
where 4 desperate struggle cnsucd, on the
attempt to take the coffin from the llcarse.
DR.. Snyder and his party pulled on the
coffin to get it out; tho other faction
pushed to keep it in. A partisan of the
Iovcrs seized DIR. Snyder around
the waist he resisted, and called for help;
4 crowd surrounded the cOmbatants, and
ycls and threats rent the air. 1t was tho
most disGraccful scene ever seen in Am
ster!;,m, and it ended in the coi1in's being
pulled out with the loss Of Il silver orna-
mcnt, but the Snyder party were unable to
place it in the box. The HOvcrs then had
recourse to law, and procured from Judge
Wcstbrook the issuing of an injunction,
which was served just rs the train arrived
and the body taken to tho vault in Green
Hill cemetery to await the decision of the
courts.