New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-11-12
NAY BE TAKEN TO COURT.
MYSTERIOUS BURIAL sTIRs UP RESIDENTS
OF WHITE PLAINS

There Is great Indignation among the res'oe"''
Of White Plains. particularly the fashiohap,e -
ple living In the neighborhood OF the fHst r'eos
| terrain Church graveyard. where the pody Oh wy
late Mrs Ruth II. Prime was so quietly ouiie
against the wishes of the church trustees an
contrary to the village ordinance. Until the s'o'y
was printed yesterday many had not hearo "
the mysterious burial DR.. Charles H. p''
Health officer Of White Plains, and one Oh 'i'o
coroners of Westchester County, Is MAXINE u"
Investigation TT
A reporter called last evening on Dr. u. ~
Nagness the president Of the Board OF Health
mr. Nagness said: THE Board OF Health begun
to-day an investigation OF this mysterious nu''a
You can say that the burial or Mrs Prime !" NV
Presbyterian Cemetery was contrary W ia"' "
that interments in that cemetery are no 'ohse'
permissible. Burals In this same cemetery To-
caused us trouble before but we have never pee"
outwitted before. | firmly believe that Tue oo''
will be exhumed soon as our boaru 'a" ..
ton and this town will certainly sehu u W '
Potters' Field IL nobody is there 10 receive H.
am only surprised that two such repu'aoe Inc,
| as the late Mrs Primes sons, VINO are po'n
lights in the legal profession. should even attenP'
such thing The body will be taken up, OF that
| am certain" g.,
When asked what action would be taken TOT
violation OF the village ordinance prohioitihs puia'
in the graveyard of the Presbyterian Churcn' VIZ
lage President Miller declined to discuss the
ra,ter hut said IT would receive proper attention
&, a comnlaint is presented at the meeting Oh the
Village Trustees tomorrow night secretary fe'-
ris of the Board of Health. declared last night
that the Board had taken action. ana begun d"
investigation In the matter Oh o''0'"'
having been called to IT,
MANY visited the cemetery yesterday ana III
spected the grave which was barren OF anything
that would indicate whose body rested there
Several OF the church trustees. while not desiring
TO give the affair any publicity. said that IL was
an imposition 1t is said that the sons OF the iate
Mrs. Prime, who are well known lawyers TOOK
the only course they could to bury their mother
in their family plot, and that they VIII nght the
matter in the courts before they Will alio" the
body to be taken up. 49,, - -. ohurcb
As an evidence of the strict action or the cnuloh
in prohibiting buras In the cemetery. !ne uun
tees a few weeks ago refused TO allow the pougS
Of Mrs Sarah g. SeareS to be buried In the Gnu!
graveyard Mrs. Searles for thirty years KEPT d
Young ladies' seminary in Broadway she was oIIe
of the oldest members OF the church. ana at he'
dea IN owned the largest plot in the cemetery:
The burying ground was presented 10 the ~
some sixty years ago one. or the covenants ~.
the deed was that 'burials shall be made IN III -
graveyard as long as grass grows and water nO"I.
II NAV be remembered that some years ago the
Rev Edgar L. Heermance. the pastor OF S ms
church entered the pulpit at o'clock on a SUNDAY
afternoon and committed suicide by shooting MN
self through the head. The present pastor OF the
church is the Rev. DR.. a. r. Macouorey ana .,i u,
congregation includes many OF the wealthy PeoP'e
of he