The San Francisco call., 1898-04-04
REMAINS OF
 ENOS LAID IN
 THE VAULT Services Once More Held Over His
 Body. It Was the Widows Turn and Mrs Snyder Was
 Not Present. Orders Issued to Have Her Refused Admittance to
 the House. THEY WILL GO TO COURT. A Bitter Fight Expected-How Perry Sears Pared at the Hands of
 His Sister.
THEY WILL GO TO COURT.
A Bitter Fight Expected-How Perry Sears Pared at the Hands of
 His Sister.
Special Dispatch to The Call

SONOMA, Aprll S.-FOr the second time prayers were said over the body of John S. Enos. and once again friends assembled around his coffin, but still the man is not yet buried. He lies in the city vault of Sonoma, while the widow and the other woman fight over his bones, and not until the courts have finally decided who shall have the corpse will he be allowed the rest of the grave.
 There were perhaps twenty-five or thirty people to follow the hearse. most of them friends of Mrs. Enos; on the former occasion there were as many at the house of Mrs. Snyder, most of them friends of Mrs. Snyder, but this time there was funeral procession as well as funeral ceremonies, and so Mrs. Enos is one point ahead.
 The funeral services were set for half-past F to-day, and at that time there were more people waiting around outside than entered the house of the undertaken where the body lay. There was a suspicion that Mrs. Snyder would attend the funeral, and it was known to many that if she appeared she would not DC allowed in the house. She was not there, however, and the services passed off without any un- pleasant incident Rev. Charles E. Chase of the local Congregational church said few short prayers at the house, and then there were a few more at the vault; the niche for the coffin was closed, and the widow and her daughter took the afternoon train for San Francisco. That was all, but 1t was only after invoking the aid of the law that the widow secured even that consolation.
 The first funeral services were held at Mrs. Snyder's house last Friday, but an injunction from the Santa Rosa court stopped any attempt at burial; Mrs. Enos had thereby secured posses sion of the body for one day, and in that day she laid away the remains of her husband herself.
 On the completion of the fight in the courts there will very likely be another funeral, but when that fight will ter minate is a question no one can an- swer. Neither woman will surrender except under legal compulsion, and both are ready to fight as long as the courts will let them.
 In Mrs. Snyder the widow has an ene- my who has shown a vindictiveness which at one time aroused the country round and caused the somewhat unus- ual spectacle of a town turning out with a brass band to welcome home man who had been acquitted of the charge of murder.
 The man was Perry Sears, a brother of Mrs. Snyder, and it was not her fault he was not hanged. He had killed a man named Reibli who had leased from Mrs Snyder a ranch upon which Perry Sears had lived and from which she evicted him. The ranch was owned by Sears and his sister, and just before the depression in the wine market six or seven years ago he filled his cellars with wine and held it for a raise against the advice of his sister; he would not sell, and finally she fore closed a mortgage she held on the place and then rented it to Reibli Reibli l came to take possession and Sears | drove him from the ranch. He came back, and meeting Sears made at him with a pitchfork, whereupon Sears shot | him dead.
 Sears was tried for murder and was acquitted on the ground of self-defense, but all through the trial Mrs. Snyder was the prosecutor and 1t was a lawyer hired by herself who conducted the case and fought to have the prisoner hanged. On his acquittal Sears went back to his old home in SonOma, and the whole town turned out to meet him. There was blowing of horns and shooting of anvils and the brass band of the town met the guest at the station and es- corted him to his house, where there was more celebrating. In the mean while Mrs. Snyder was burned in effigy.
 There will be the same bitterness in l the battle for the body of Enos, unless years have worked a change in the wo- man for whom he left his home. If Mrs. Snyder would bury the man with his own people the widow would be willing to let it be done by her, but Mrs. Snyder will put the body with her own dead if the court gives it to her, and because of that the fight will be a bitter one