The evening times., 1897-08-04
NO M0URNERs FOLLOWED
Simple Services Over Marie Hart
Reynolds Remains.
RITES AT THE UNDERTAKER'S
Body Conveyed 10 the Gene cry
without Any One FoiIowing-The
This oafy-He Tells a Remarkable
story of Former Wife's Career.

In the back room of Nichols undertak-
ing establishment, on Ninth street, this
morning, lay all That was mortal OF Marie
Hart Reynolds, the erstwhile society woni-
an, an account of whose sad career and
death has been published in The Times.
No flowers cas-; their sweet perfume about
the room. Not even twfg of evergreen
lay upon the coffin.
The re mains lay in a handsome hardwood
caSket with silver handles. The wooden
slide at the top covered the glass lid, but
from time to time the face, pinched and
careworn, was exposed TO the view OF the
people who came 10 look at the remains.
The funeral services Were to have taken
place at O'Clock. The Women's Chris
tian Home, where she had been an inmate.
WAS ia charge of all funeral arrangements,
and in addition To offering burial lot In
Rock Creek Cemetery, betrayed all the
expenses Of inteIment. IL had been the In
tention of the home ia bold funeral ser
vices befoIc tlle body was removed, but
at ah early hour this morning Undertaken
Nichals received word that nothing would
be done IL that direcLicn, andthat IL would
tie best 10 proceed with tie burial az soon
as possible.
In the meanwhile, a numoer or The
parishonerS of 81. Johns Episcopal Church,
which the woman had formerly attended,
were awaiting the performance of The rites
frcIn their place. The Washington Post
enormously stated that the services would
be held there AT $50, but when the hour
had passed and neither minister nor coffin
appeared inquiries were made as To where
the body lay, and d number of ladies came
at once 10 Undertaken Nichols just at the
time W hen the wagon was about 10 stsrtfor
the cemetery.
When they learned that no services were
TO be held they were unwilling that the
burial should take place before the rites of
the Christian Church had been performed,
and WORD was sent to a number of minis
ters asking them To officiate. tnf0rtu
nately, none Of the divines sent for was al
home, 50, as d last resort, Mr. Bailey, Of
the Central Union Mission, was sent for. and
in a short while arrived.
During the earlyparto of the ernorning there
had been IA number of people in the cham
Ter with the body, but when Mr.. Bailey
arrived but three persons were present.
a chapter from the Biide was read over the
coffin, and at the close OF the reading q
prayer was said.
The casket was then taken out, placed
in a closed wagon and driven rapidly IN
the direction of Rock Creek Cemetery No
remains TO their last resting place. At the
cemetery the grave had been ready for
several hours and the caskat was quicklyre-
moved from the wagon, lowered into tne
grave andthe earth Ia stiiythrowni in rIo1it
Marie Hart Reynolds last husband is
living i'm tif:s city. His name is Augustus
A. REYNOLDS, ami he is employed as a
carriagebuilder with c. Grevel. at the
corner OF Third and II streets northeast.
A Times reporter called at the place this
morning and talked with him. REYNOLDS
il a slightly built man about thiri y-five
years old. He is not employed regularly
at The shop, but puts in t wo and three DAYS
a week.
tie IS at least ten years the woman's
Junior. He was evidently not much CON
cerned about Eer deatl. or the disposal of
the remains, seeing thet he did not know
the place OF interment He talked freely
when questioned as TO the dead woman
According to his story, she was the daughter
OF French-Spanish parents She was born
In Cuba, but came to this country at anearIy
age. When quite young she married Edwin
NJ. Hart. paymaster in the United states
Navy.
This marriage was not happy one and
the couple separated. the woman going TO
I'VE with calragenaker named Schoon- |
maker whom after some years she married.
by this un ion she had a child now eighteen |
years cid and az present an inmate OF ST |
Matthias Home. New York |
Schomaaker died soon after the mar /
1age and eight years ago Reynolds mar |
led THE widow, after a short courtship. /
5e soon found that she was a confirmed |
opium fiend. being In the habit Of using
10Th laudanum and morphine, and, oftener
han either, whisky. She declared that she
iad contract ed the la Hianum habit through
is use as relief from neuralgia.
Reynolds lived with her up tolast Christ
mas. He himself is a drinking man. n.
saws, ann their life was full of uuarrels.
AT last she left him, and with the excep-
ton of surdry letters which he received,
legr1ng for money, he has heard nothing
II her.
lie seemed glad to know that she had
been given decent burial, but otherwise
seemed TO feel no emotion on the subiect