The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-08-11
GREAT CROWD
IN ATTENDANCE.
Emery A. Wise Was UnmOved
During tire Funeral Services.
HE EXHIBITED NO EMOTION
Had Remarkable Control Oter His Feel
inss-Mrs. Byeriy Frustrated BY
the Succession of
TryinEEvents.

| mBs-mrs' byeTly frostnsteu ny
the Succession of
TryinE:Events.
The services at the double funeral at
Greentcwn Tuesday were conducted ac-
cording to arrangements previously
made and printed In the News-Demo-
crat. The only thing that could not be
definitely programmed was the action of
the people most directly interested.
The curtain falls on the tragedy for
time at least; and when it went down
there was much left fer the people Of
the villageto talk about. They stood
In groups about the center Of the. town
Tuesday evening and talked over the
incidents connected with the largest
funeral ever held in Grsentown Or vi
cinity. They discussed she position of
the two bodies at the home of Mrs.
Sarah Byerly3 the daughter on the
porch and the mother inside the house.
They talked Of the surroundings, Of the
singing and Of the sermon. The SER
mon was not sensational in any degree,
yet some mentioned the fact that the
preacher had said the sins OF the father
were visite6s on the children to the,
third and fourth generation, and won
dered what it meant.
The interment took place at $50,
o'clock. Those who bore the remains
of Mrs. Wise, the slayer Of her daugh-
ter, to the grave were w. F. Ream,
Milton Wise, John Ever C. Deffen-
derfsr, Henry Wise and E. Baum
Those who carried the victim of herr
mothers peculiar affection were Leo
Bishop, George Boyer, Joseph Cal
hour, Simon Slayer, Arthur Taylor
aud Thomas Wolf.
/ Some of the people in the country,
about Greentown thought the funeral
would be held at 10 O'Clock in the,
morning and they camo from miles
around at that hour. The town was
crowded with people all day. Every
one who came did not appear to mourn.
Curiosity was what brought the big
crowd. Kate Wise's funeral, under
other circumstances, would have been
attended by probably enc hundred per-
sons and her daughters by about
the same number. But everybody
was at the funeral Tuesday who could
get there and who had ever heard of
the family. They wanted to see the
corpse OF the daughter whose mother
loved her so that she killed her. They
wanted to see the corpse of the mother
who entertained that kind OF affection.
| Maybe some thought that one who had.
possession CfSthat sort OF love would
better be corpse thanna living and
moving being, but that feature waSnot
discussed. Nor did the. people come
exclusively to see the aorpses. They
wanted to sae the old mother whose
daughter wanted to save her from be-
ing disgraced. They saw her-a pleas
ant old LADY, nearly 7E6y years of age.
She is yet strong mentally, and COM
paratively strong physically, Or was
sill her daughter took it into her head
that she should be saved from disgrace.
Now she Is tottering wrecS, her
NERVES strained to too great tension
and"her heart bowed down with grief
at the loss of her only child.
But the people wanbed to see the man
who slept through 1t all. They wanted
to get glimpse of Emery A. Wise,
whose tears did not flow,
lowing to the magnifceat COM
mand he has over mis- feelings. They
saw him, or as many as got near to-
to the residence saw him. He sat in.
the room where his wife was laid out.
Near him sat Mrs. Byerly. She was
weeping and lamenting i1er loss.
Emery A. Wise also felt deeply. His
feeling was 80 deep that he had perfect
control over 1t. He did not lament.
He did not put his arm around his old
motder-in-law and assist to'assuage her
| iAH Ia oof 90
, ed. His command of his feelings was
superb. No tear dimmed his eve that
. the'spectators observed. His was an
internal, consuming grief The old
mother was the chief mourner for Kate
Wise and the husband would naturally,
be second. May be he felt that way,
, for he did NOT ride in the same car
rfage with her to the grave. She was,
Isupported by other friends and Emery
|; A. Wise went In another conveyance.
: EWhen the shovelfuf of dirt ratified
down on the coffin-a nerve racking,
distressing custom that many hope the
: Methodist church and other churches
a Will one day abandon-the mother
. ialrly shfieked. Emery A. Wise was q
, stole at this supreme moment.
!, On Sunday when Wise was getting
/ the clothes for bhe dead, at his house.
, the gentlemen who were with him
!, started to leave the place. He begged
a them not to go as he said he would not
/, for the world be In the house alone.
q He told DR.. Hanson TO take the razor
!, as he never wanted to see it again. He
j. talked as II he would never want to
:. look at the home again. Now he says
he believes he will go back there and
live. Whether he will or not has not
d developed, but he said he did not see
}, why he should not go back.
}. Mrs. Byerly had farm OF 25 acres.
q 1t is good and 1t is paid for. She also
9 has some money. 1t was believed that
n she would leave 1t all to the girl Ruth.
r. Wise has mentioned that feature to
It Greentown people. The death OF Ruth
,, and OF Mrs. Wise removes the proba.
p bility OF any OF 1t ever getting to that
? branch OF the family with which Wise
IF was connected. It ia said that the