The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-05-18
''PALLISTER" BURIED.
The Murderer's Aged Mother Kisses
the Wreath on the Coffin.

NEW YORK, May Is, 1S93.-The last GER
emonial in the history of Thomas Pallis-
ter, the condemned murderer, whose SEN
sational escape from the death-house in
Sing Sing Prison the night of April 20
and the finding of his body in the Hud-
son Rlver.-.Tuesday. form the most re-
markable incidents in the criminal an
nails of the country, was enacted this
forenoon when his remains were Inferred
beside those of his father In Calvary
Cemetery.
S The body arrived at the Grand Central
Station yesterday afternoon, and was not
removed until this morning.
An expensive copper lined metallic
casket had been substituted for the plain,
ochre-stained pine box in which the Dody
had been originally placed, and a simple
wreath OF plain green was placed upon
1t before il was lifted into the hearse.
The funeral was conducted by Joseph
Kennedy. of No. 40 Pearl street, and
took place at nine A. NJ. The announce
ment that the body had been taken to
the establishment on South Fifth
avenue, between Grand and Canal streets,
had deceived many friends aud former
associates of Pallister, and they coDgre-
gated in crowds about the place and
clamored for view of the dead criminals
face.
THE FUNERAL.
In the meantime, the funeral was TAX
ing place from the Grand Central station.
So quietly was it conducted that not even
the coterie of cabmen who have their
stands at the Grand Central, and who
make it part of their business TO know all
that transpires, suspected that the body
that rested on the truck in the train house
was that of the notorious criminal,
Thomas Pallister.
The cortege comprised only the nearse
and two carriages.
BhMrs, Pallister, the mother Of the m mur-
dered, rode In the first carriage
with her daughter and son-in-law. Mr..
and Mrs. Edward Carter. The other car
riage contained two women, aunts, it
was said, who live in Cherry street.
None OF the m0urnerS got out OF the
carriages save Mrs. PaIlister, who walked
through the station to TIE impromptu
bier and stood Tor moment leaning over
the coffin,i
Her thin, spare form, palsied by, age,
shook with emotion as she bowed her
head and kissed the wreath which she
had last night placed upon the cOffiu.
God be merciful to my poor Tom."
she muttered, as the four stalwart men
lifted the coffin upon their shoulders and
carried 1t out to the hearse.
The scene attracted but little attention.
LnO L1OLnGl III OO0p AAOukAln% anu SAOoO-
ly yelled. was the only follower of the
coffin, and no one in the throng of on
lockers recognized her or knew the iden-
tity of the corpse over which this poor
OLD woman had wept such bitter tears.
OFF TO CALVARY.
After the coffin Was placed in the
hearse. the driver took up the reins and
started the team off on trot for the
Thirty fourth street ferry. followed by
the two carriages of mourners.
The cemetery was reached at half past
tea and the coffin was lowered into the
grave twenty minutes later, according to
the ritual of the Roman Catholic Church.
Rev. Father Mulheron pronounced the
last rites and committed the body to the
grave.
1t had been the original intention of
Mrs. Pallister to have the funeral fr ON
St. Joseph's Church, where b er son had
been COMMUNICATE. but she changed
her mind at the last moment.
The arrangements, in fact, were made
with some difficulty. and it was not until
after the deposition of Rev. Thomas
Smyth, pastor of the ST. Augustin's
Church at Sing Sing, had been made, to
the effect that Pallister had received the
holy sacrament, that permit to bury
the body in consecrated ground was
ryponfod