New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-07-16
NOT EVEN A PRAYER SAID
THE CRUCYs BURIED wIrHoUTA FUNERAL.
FEW REMARKS BY PRODUCE EXCHANGE MEM
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BEs-1Hx BODIES TAKEN TO GREENWOOD.
A thousand people, mostly women, blocked the
sfthst. shortly after noon yesterday. and
for four hours patiently. gazed at the Jour
story red brick dwelling on the north
Adrian and Lucie Crucy ended their lives on sun
day night. A hail-dozen policemen from the
Eighteenth Precinct were on hand to preserve
order, bnt found little to do as the crowd was qnes
and filled with the single idea OF getting
glimpse tbs t tine t0lh might be
called a funeral-was o'clock, dut it was $3.50
before UndeItak Clark and the two hearses Were
driven up to the door. The Public Administrator
oil but personal friends of the the Crucy family.
Early in the morning the bodies had been placed
in black cloth-coveTed cofhns which restea a, on
catafa lques in the front parlOr. Into the c9IhnS
were put the trinkets and mementoes ehc,ose a.
in small mahogany boxes. as reques'eu M
the minute memoranda written Sy Pu coffin con
tanned among other things locks OF har oI Eai i
members of the family, needle boxes pepKnMNH; Ne
SCISSORS dried leaves and flowers ana tnit III 'iio'
Cruoy's coffin two sets of false teeth aces thln6ies
rings and several pieces OF jewery. A'el nose
aud Mary Kelly. the house servants nau ard
parting look at the features OF their master ana
mistress a gauze veil was thrown over the lace OF
the latter and the lids were screwed down. On
Miss Crucys coffin were LAID two nora crosses ana
on her brothers cross and wreath:
Eugene Pitou Jules Vatable aud +. A. Marsily,
upon whom devoved the duty of aking the funeral
arrangements, were on manu- dt OCioCh
G. Vets, of the Standard Oil Company, President
McGee and eight members of the Produce Ex-
change. and the Misses Thomas. next door
nelchbors Mrs Sarah Godfrey, of Chicago, who
claimed a right TO ADMISSION because of having
known the Crucys seven years ago and Mrs. Marslly
soon followed. Father Humbert. assistant patio of
be present and offer a prayer. provided Monsgnor
Preston would give him permission. At the last
moment 1T was learned that the Mon
sIgnor vas inexSra6ie and ana G HG ana
known Mr. Crucy intimately for fifteen years, was
asked to make few remarks He spoke tor per-
baps two minutes referring to the painful duty the
little company was performing and paving tribute
to the upright lives of the dead brother and sister
Without prayer other ceremony the collins
were borne by four sturdy men to the
containing the friends slowly proceeded to the
Twenty-thrd-st Terry and thence to Greenwood
Cemetery
wood denoted the approach of the funeral process
SION. Without ceremony of any kind the collins,
encased in pine boxes, were taken from tue hearses
into the fecevng-vault and showed INTO the inches
engaged Tor them. Every request made IN the pa
pers left by the CIucys was faithfully complied win
excepting the that they be buried ID the family
plot IN Calvary Cemetery. III IS thought thal
furthcr effoIts will be made in tins direction.
Mrs. Sarah NJ Platt the owner OF the house IN
which the Crucys lived. called there yesterday
morning to inquire when she could take possession.
She SAID that sac had been bcsicgcd by real estate
agents who were anxious to buy the house at a
sacrifice, asserting that its value had been much
depreciated by the tragedy. One enterprisng
agent offered $4,000 for the property.
which is valued at more than twice that sum. Mrs.
Platt said that she would have the premises
thoroughly overhaued and thought she wodi u
figure as before. The Public ADMINISTRATOR tOid
her that the house would be turned over TO her as
soou as the effects of the Crucys had been been re-
moved No Will has vet been found and the dis
position of the Crucy estates now depends upon the
action OF Victor Goose, the cousin living III Nantes