The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-04
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CZECH'S FUNERAL.
Services in st. Joseph's R. G.
Church This Morning
Over the Murderer's
.s...s Body.
BURIED IN WEST SIDE CEMETERY
His Daughter and Her Foster
Parents Attend the Services
Result of the Autopsy.
BURIED IN WEST SIDE CEMETER

Poor "Fish'' John Czech. who was
hanged yesterday in the County Jan TOT
numbering his wife -four months ago. lay
in his coffin in Undertaken j. v. Burke
stable on Cook street this morning READY
for interment in the Catholic Cemetery
on West Side avenue.
The undertaken had skillfully prepared
the body and the dead convict was actu-
ally smiling in his long last sleep. Inere
was no trace IN the features OF the a"-
full death which he met and the best
proof that the hanging was. as van
Hise brutally put it. "a successful 1op,
was seen in the peaceful fepose OF the
bronzed. weatherbeaten face On ms
walk to the scaffold he looked painfully
hideous; in death the smile was SO be-
nignant that it ma have been a bishop
who lay there. Only a red mark around
the neck under the turned-down collar
showed where the rope had pressed The
coffin was plain, but neal, and the lin
ings We're of white satin. edged with
lace.
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS. a
Undertaken j. F. Burke. in order to.
avoid crowds of the morbidly curious at
tending the burial which was originally
intended to take place yesterday. had the
coffin secretly conveyed to his under
taking establishment and in the after
noon it was buried in West Side Gene
terry The rmurderer's daughter had
wished to place him beside her murder
ed mother. but this was impossible.
unfortunate creature lies in a narrow
cell in potter's field on Snake Hill, with
a small white stick with a lumber on
1t, for a headstone. Through the kind
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r. C. Church, a permit was obtained to
bury Fish" h in the Catholic Gene
terry and when readers of the News
are perusing these columns the old fish
erman will be ~slumbering in the grave.
LAST RITES IN CHURCH
f fo5dln' f fHata afaBfg the To st. eoay yo W 9 sef R. e.
Church. 1t was carried to a trestle In
front of the altar. ~.
Seated in the front seats facing the
coffin were Rosa Czech, the only daugll-
ter of the murderer, and her foster par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Lagos of Peekskill.
rather Smith read the prayers for the
vice the body was removed to the West
riage by Father Smith, Mr.. and Mrs.
Lagos and Rosa. The grave hes on the
western slope of the hill. and as the
ready to receive the body. It was gem
tly lowered into the grave, and Father
Smith read the burial service.
Then the earth was thrown in and IN a
few minutes another mound was added
to the many in this place: another citi-
zen was added to the City of the Dead.
DEATH WAS RAPID.
The result of the autopsy yesterday
showed, at least according to the ma
jority of the physicians, that the murder
er's neck was broken, and that
the slight movement of the legs
and the shoulders were the cause
of muscular reaction. Although it
was true that the pulse indicated
120 a few seconds after the body
was lowered a minute after the drop fell
and quickly diminished. yet the poor
wretch experienced no suffering and was
unconscious after the shock came.
The heart, brain, lungs and viscera
were generally in a healthy condition
and but for the execution yesterday the
murderer might have lived to the scrip
tural limit of three score years and ten.