The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-09
DEATH OF SISTER MARY.
IMPREsSTVESCENE IN THE DoMIN-
ICAN CONVENT, NEWARK.

Crowds from the Outside World View
the Dead NUNS Face-Cruel Assault
on n Preacher in a Camden Mill.
NEWARK, Dec. 9, 1ss9.-Behind the
double iron gratings in the little chapel
attached to the Dominican Convent IN
Thirteenth avenue and Ninth street lay
exposed to view Friday and Saturday the
body of Sister Mary of the Blessed Trlnl-
ty. She is the first nun who has oleo
within the walls of this convent. Inc
sister died of consumption on frluay
morning, after a sickness of a year.
She entered the order four years ago,
and during the past three years was d
fully professed nun. She was known III
the world as Miss Esther Connolly ana
came from Bridgeport, where her parents
are well-to-do and highly respected. AT
the time of her death she was thirty-one
years of age. During her sickness sne
was attended by DR.. Vaudeville. WINE
she was dying on Friday morning she
was surrounded by the little
receiving prayers for the dying.
All day Saturday people h had heard
of the nuns death filed into the little
chapel. AT one end of 1T is a smail put
handsome marble altar. About three
feet behind the altar is the wall Wnlch
separates the altar from the clolSuef-
There is a large aperture in the wall, III
which there are two iron gratings, on
each side of the wall. On the clolster
side there are black folding shutters,
which are opened when services are nelu
in the chapel. Saturday the shutters
were partially opened, revealing the Iorn
of the deceased nun, attired in the noL-
day habit of the order. She wore a white
flannel gown, over which fell in ample
folds the large circular black CLOAK. one
wore the usual head dress OF Whlbe linen,
oyershadowed by the heavy black ven,
which was for this once thrown oack, eA-
posing her features to full view. On her
head She wore a wreath of white roses;
Her hands, clasped as if in prayer, held
the cruciix of her rosary, while the Deaos
were twined about her fingers. she was
stretched on @ linen covered board
slightly inclined.
The solemnity and picturesqueness OF
the scene was heightened by the gloom
OF the room. Four tapers shed a hlcKer-
ing light upon the body, a large gilt cross
stood at the head of the bier. Whlle Two
~bIack-robed nuns with their faces hidden
from view whispered prayers for the re-
pose of the sou of their dead sister.
In accordance with the rules OF the Or
der. the sisters obsequies were of e SIM
pie character. Yesterday morning ner
body was placed in a plain pine box, made
by the carpenter who does odd sobs
around the ~cloister. A requiem mass was
celebrated at nine O'Clock by Fatner
O'Leary. After the mass the body was
taken to the Cemetery of the Holy sep
ulchre and temporarily deposited IN
Archbishop C~orrigan'S family vault. IL
had been found necessary to do TINS pc
cause the vault in the c%loister, where all
the nuns are to be entombed, is not at
present in a proper condltlon Lol use.
The hearse that conveyed the body to The
cemetery was followed by three carriages,
containing the relatives of the deceased.
A Preacher BrutaIIy Assaulted.
CAMDEN, Dec. 9, 1sS9.-Rev, George
Rose, an aged local preacher, who has la
bored for a number of years among the
outcasts, visiting the prisons and minis
tering to the wants of the unfortunates.
conducted religious services at the Cam
den City Jail yesterday with a bandaged
head.
He explained that he was suffering
from several wounds in the head, re-
ceived at the Camden Wooden Mills, on
Saturday. He was employed in one de-
partment and at the noon hour he was re-
quested by the workmen in another de-
partment to lead religious services.
He started to comply, but when he got
on his knees to offer a prayer, Ii number
of persons present began throwing mis-
siles of all kinds at aim. Pieces of iron
struck his face, and cut deep wounds, but
this did not satisfy them. They continued
TO moiest him, and did not desist until
blood was flowing down his face in
streams.
The female operators fastened to the
gentleman's aid and washed the blood
from his face, and accompanied him to a
n~eighboring drug store, where the in
iuries were dressed. The wounds were
not of a serious nature but painful. The
preacher is an earnest and devout worker
and has many friends in Camden.
Through business reverses he was COM
PEELED to seek manual labor. and holds an
Important position in the mill. No arrests
have been made.