The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-07-23
CORONER WILL PROBE 1T
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and everything looked about as 1t did before from the exterior. Even the paint had been put on the roof.
 There were two reasons for the haste. The first was to protect their machin- cry. which is of an expensive charac- | ter from water, and the second was to cover the machinery from the public gaze.
 | A year ago, when hard times were harder than ever, Mrs Ida Brown, one of the victims, and her husband sepa- rated. The act was the result of abso- lute necessity, not of any domestic dis turbance. MT and Mrs. Brown were then living in Detroit He was out of work and determined to try his luck in New Haven. l Arriving here he tried every honest means of obtaining employment but failed. A month later his wife came and hoping to help her husband, also went out to seek employment. She was fatally successful. She got work al Winchester's. The first morning she was assigned to feed an automatic l loading machine-the same which caus ed her death.
 It is strange and sad that on the very day of his wifes death Brown for the first time In fully a year, SC. cured permanent employment as baker He was happy for short time and looked forward to the evening when he could see his wife and tell hel she could cease her shop labors, He was living with an aunt at 800 Chape street, and she lived on Winchestel | O tn fo he knew of his wife's death was at tht morgue, when her burned and manglet | form was revealed to him.
 The last sad rites over the remains of the victims were held yesterday | The victims buried were Walter Hill the powder boy, aged eighteen years Mrs. Ida Brown, whose head was, torr to shreds and whose age was thirty years, and Julius Borman, another powder boy, whose age is seventeen years
 The body of Mrs. Nellie Baumeister the bride of Fitch Baumeister, wa taken to New York on the boat yester day morning at 10;30. From New Yorl the remains will be taken to Port Rich mond, L. l., where her father, William Martindale. resides. Her husband who worked at the machine next tt hers, accompanied the remains of hl months bride. Mrs. Baumefster wa but sixteen years old.
 The funeral of Walter Hill, the eigh teen-year-old powder boy, was held a o'clock yesterday afternoon from hi parents residence at 52 Hazel street The interment was in Evergreen ceme tery.
 The boy was son of Nathan D. Hill a carriage and body maker employed by D. w. Baldwin of 366 Crown street Rev. Mir Hall offlciated.
 JuNus Borman, the seventeen-year old powder boy, was buried from th' home of his father, Julius Borman, z cigar maker living at SS George street at 2:30 yesterday afternoon. The fam fly came over from Germany four year! ago and the father secured work a his trade and set his son to learn tn, business from Jacob Winnen of Con gress avenue. He left there some tim ago, however, and entered the emplo, of the Winchester company, where hi sister was employed. Rev. MT. Sec vile officiated at the funeral and tn interment was in Evergreen cemetery
 The funeral of Mary Josephine Bren nan, aged eighteen, of 34 George street is to be held at 10 o'clock this mornin, from St. Mary's church, Rev. Fathe Fowler officiating. The burial will b. in St. Lawrence cemetery.
 Mrs Ida Brown, of 147 Asylum street was buried at o'clock yesterday after noon from Lewis & Maycocks rooms The services were conducted by Rev Mir. Mossman of the City Missions, ant the interment was in Evergreen cem etery Her parents live in Detroit
 Mary Theresa Connolly, sixteen year old, of 190 Willow street will be buried In St. Lawrence cemetery at o'clocl this morning. The funeral services vii be held at St. Marys church.
 Edward Bardorf, aged twenty-one of SIS Winchester avenue, who die from the results of a fractured spine will be buried this afternoon at 2:3t Bardorf was a son of August BardorI a tailor employed by Corbin & Co., Each of the bodies was placed in
 neat casket. some black and other white, and everything possible ha been done by Lewis &s Maycock to mak the sad deaths appear less awful to tn ,, bereaved families.
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