The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1894-01-19
WAS BURIED IN BENNINGTON.

w tAD ~ hILD LIN DEN MIMI ION.
The following despatch was sent ont
Wednesday night and appeared in yes
terday's papers:
PHILADELPHIA, January 17.-Detect-
I've Sllcox of this city, after a search of
several months, has found the body of
Mrs. AlphOnso Jacobs in a vault at Ben
nington. On September 1st, last. Mrs,
Jacobs deserted her husband and child
and eloped with Silas Z. Moon. The
couple were married at Amsterdam, n.
T., November 10th, and after varied
pilgrimage. arrived at North Adams.
Mass, where the woman became i'll and
died. Her body was inferred at Ben
ningtOn. When the lid of the coffin was
raised to enable the detective to identify
the remains a picture of the deserted
husband and child was found casped in
Mrs. Jacobs hand. The physician who
attended the woman said she repeatedly
kissed the photograph as she lay dying.
There are number of improbable
things about this despatch, which was
undoubtedly inspired by the Detective
named. Friends here say, who attended
the funeral and saw the casket closed,
that no photograph was in the hands of
the deceased, when the remains of Mrs.
Kate Moon were brought here from
North Adams, two weeks ago. Mr..
Moon was present when his wife died
and says she did not kiss a photograph,
and people who die with pneumonia are
not ant to be in condition to do so, and.
then, when the body was buried yesteIs
day, no photograph was in the hands
Mr.. Moon was present at the burial He
denied emphatically the reports about
the elopement published in the morning
papers. He has his marriage certificate
dated White Creek, n. Y, November
l4th, 1891, signed by w. c. Niles, JUS
tlce OF the peace. The Moon family re-
side here and are well known. The mar
riage was published at the time and
there was no privacy about it. Mr..
Moon says that while he knew Mrs.
Moon in Philadelphia several years ago,
where he was employed as a boss knit
ter, he never had the least idea that she
was a married woman. He came up
from Philadelphia in March, 1884,. and
she came east to North Adams q few
months afterwards, and while at work
here received a telegram 10 come to
North Adams, where he met her first at
his fathers house. After they were
married they went to housekeeping here,
where they lived some two years, before
going from here to North Adams.
Last summer, Mrs. Moon spent several
weeks in Philadelphia with sister and
all her family knew of her marriage with
him. He now lives in Fitchburg. 1t
was claimed by the detective that the
woman had an insurance on her life in
favor of child by the alleged first hus-
band, and that he wanted to view the
remains for the purpose of identified
ton. If he was allowed to see the re-
mains, the proper authorities know no.
thing about it, and the undertaken says
that no one could have tampered with
the body. There are three keys to our
town receiving vault, and these are in
custody of UndeTtakeTs Walbridge and
Sanford, and Sexton Cone 1t is quite
likely an investigation will be had. If a
stranger can come along and be admitted
to our vault, as he says he was, other
things may be done. He might just as
well open grave as the vault without
the proper authority. The remains
were brought here December 29th, and
the funeral was held from o. 3. Moons,
the following day, and the fact pub
lished as usual. What there is behind
all this we do not know, but of one
thing rest assured, no detective or other
person should be allowed to thus desc
';rate caskets, containing bodies in our
vault, with impunity.