The San Francisco call., 1898-04-03
DEATH HAS
 NOT ENDED
 THEIR FEUD Why Two Women Lay Claim to
 Enos' Body. Senator's Wife Had h. suited Mrs. Snyder
 Years Ago. In Revenge the Latter Resolved to Wreck a Happy
 Home. STRIFE OVER THE DEAD. The Widow Is Given Possession of the Remains, but the Quarrel
 Goes On.
STRIFE OVER THE DEAE
The Widow Is Given Possession O the Remains, but the Quarrel
 Goes On.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

SONOMA, April 2.-The body of John S. Enos has lain in its casket since last Wednesday, and since that time two women have been battling to see which one should put him in his grave. One is his widow: the other holds by his will the sole right to bury him; and so the tragedy that began years ago is nearing an end.
 By his will EnoS directed that Ra- chael Snyder should take charge of his body and should bury it in her own vault and with her own dead, but his widow has come forward to claim his body and there is now pending in the Sonoma courts legal controversy over the corpse.
 Senator Enos died on Wednesday in Mrs. Snyder's house. On Friday fu- neral services were held over him, but the interment was stopped by an in junction from the court at Santa Rosa. To-day an order served upon Mrs. Shy der compelled her to surrender the body to the dead mans relatives, and to- morrow another funeral service will be said and he will be placed in the city vault to await further legal action. The dead man will then be in charge Of the court, and neither woman can touch him until the grewsome fight has been decided
 Seventeen years have elapsed since Enos met Mrs Snyder, and the meet ing was not the first step in what was so tragic a relationship. That step was taken before the woman knew him. Mrs Snyder was a Miss Sears, and in the early days of Sonoma County the Sears owned all that was worth hold ing. They were rich at first, but they became poor, and then Miss Sears mar ried Major Snyder. Snyder was rich, and although the Sears were on the verge of bankruptcy at the time of the marriage their condition bettered at once and the marriage was said to have been most successful event.
 The bride was but F and her mar ried life ended before she was 20, but in his will the major threw some light upon the marriage and more light upon what followed. He left his entire property to his widow, but she was to have it only so long as she remained unmarried. Should she marry she was to lose it all.
 . went by the people of Sonoma Valley began to talk of the rich and fascins l. ing young widow. While this talk was at its highest Enos and his family came up the valley to spend summer. There was a meeting between the two women and parting, and people said it was because Mrs. Enos had refused to recognize Mrs. Snyder and Mrs. Snyder had vowed revenge in conse- Ouenc9. as it is told Mrs. Snyder vowed she would break up the home that had cast her out. She is quiet woman, soft spoken, but determined, and one who looks as if she had an excellent mem ory.
 It was nearly ten years after the epi- Sode in which Mrs. Enos figured that Enos himself, the man over whose body the two women are now striving, was known as Mrs. Snyder's closest friend and adviser. Before long there was talk of domestic trouble, and then there was an open separation. The names of Snyder and Enos were linked together as close as gossips could bring them, and Enos was known no more at his Wife's home.
 The Enos home was at a place near Sonoma called Grand View, and when the separation between Enos and his wife became public she deeded the place to him. Within a short time he had sold it for $30,000. That was six years ago, and since that time the wife and daughter lived apart from the hus- band and Mrs Snyder. Some months ago there was talk of reconciliation and Mrs. Enos was willing to receive the husband again and, with the friends who urged reconciliation, was Mrs. Snyder. But Enos refused to have anything further to do with his family, and in that mood he died.
 He died in back parlor of Mrs. Sny- der's home. When he had come in on Wednesday morning the chimney in that room was on fire, and in the ex- citement of quenching the sparks his old enemy. heart disease, seized him, and he died in Mrs. Snyder's arms.
 When she heard of the death of her husband, Mrs. Enos telegraphed to the undertaken at Sonoma to take possess sion of the body. Possession was re- fused by Mrs. Snyder. Then Mrs. Enos came up the valley and sent her daugh- ter, Mrs. Willis, and her daughters husband to demand the body. They were met by Mrs. Snyder, who offered to let them view the remains but not to take them away.
 On Friday, in Mrs. Snyder's house, the first funeral services were held and the Rev. MT. Wylie of Napa preached most impressive sermon. Part of the ceremony included reading of the will of the deceased, in which he directed that Mrs. Snyder dispose of his mortal remains.
 There was to have been an interment in Mrs. Snyder's family vault, but Mrs. Enos had in the meantime invoked the aid of the courts of Santa Rosa and an injunction on the dead secured it from Fridays burial. Then Mrs. Sny- der was served with an order of court directing her to surrender the body to Mrs. Enos and this she recognized, making possible a second funeral cere- mony to take place at the undertaker's tomorrow.
 The undertaken has orders not to al- low Mrs. Snyder to enter the house of sorrow. Once in the city vault the dead will have passed out of the con- troversy except as a cause of strife Enos will be buried and who will have the bones is matter for dry law and hnfIrc If 1aOo1 rr,,voorf