The sun., 1903-06-22
STOPPED BURIAL OF WOMAN.
BODY or MRS. SNYDER, VINO DIED
HERE, SENT TO PASSAIC.
She Was HOusekeeper for Passaic Couh'
ciIman-(r rOrOner SchOler Orders IN
yestigatiOn-TNO Causes or Death
Are Given h Death Certineates'

Are Given III Dtdth NV''""'
pAssAIc. n. j., June 2l-Under the
order Of Coroner Scholer OF New YORK
county. Dr.. Mcbride Of Passaic county
.topped the interment this afternoon OF
the body Of Mrs. Cora Snyder, who died
at 100 East Eighty-fourth street on frioay'
The services this afternoon we're con-
Quoted by the Rev. DR.. George w. Smth
NJ the Passaic Methodist Church. After
wand the body was taken to Cedar Lawn
and placed in the receiving vault until the
relatives and friends had gone home. when,
uuon the orders of Dr. Mcbride, the BODY
VA taken 10 Undertaken Lucas's Office
IN this city.
Mrs. SNYDER has been housekeeper for
Thomas Foxhal a Councilman and mill
owner In this city, for year. Two weeks
non abe went to the address given In New
York, where she died
II was said that she was suffering with
dyspepsia and she said that she wanted
N be under the advice OF her old family
physician, DR.. Goldwater OF SO East ll2th
street. A Mrs Fellows was employed as
her private nurse
When the undertaken went to the New
York Board of Health on Friday 1t was said
the physicians death certificate had not
been filed out properly by DR.. Goldwater,
and he issued another one This was ac-
cepted by the Board Of Health and the BODY
was brought to this city,
Councilman Foxhall said tonight that az
far as he knew Mrs. Snyder died OF APP
pendicitis This information he said he
got from Mrs Fellows. the nurse Inc
burial permit in the hands OF Undertaken
Ia,cas gives the cause Of death as perl
tonitis.
If there is anything wrong about this
affair" Mr.. Foxhall said, Il know nothing
about lit. l received word from DR..
Mcbride that the body must not be buried,
and it was following his instructions that
the interment was deferred.
Mrs. Snyder was at one time a music
teacher in New York and she came here
after having met my daughter while the
girl was taking music lessons.
Councilman Foxhall is we'll known in this
oity. He is a member Of the special COM
mittee from Passaic on the Passaic River
Publication Commission.
Chief of Police William Hendry said
tonight that he had received no official
information OF anything wrong in the
woman's death He has had several con-
ferenoes with the New York officials on
the matter, but was not prepared tonight
to make any public statement.
Coroner Scholers attention was called to
the case OH Saturday night when woman
called him up on the telephone and said
that he would find out something If he
investigated the death Of Mrs Snyder.
He learned at the Board of Health that
the cause OF death was given as apPen-
dicitis. At the house in Eighty-fourth
street he found Mrs. Brecht, a midwife.
in charge She told the Coroner that the
woman died on Friday morning as a result
Of childbirth, and the child, which was
born on June 1s, died two days later.
The Coroner thought the circumstances
suspicious and telephoned TO the authorities
in New Jersey to stop I he burial.
Il telephoned to Dr. Goldwater, said
Coroner Scholer last night, and he told
mo at first that the woman died OF appen-.
that death was caused BY peritonits."
DR.. GoldYater, when seen last night.
said that he had given the cause of death
as septic peritonits, but that the Board
Of Health authorities objected and the
certificate was made out with -appen-
dicitis' substituted He said that the
woman was an acquaintance OF his and
abe oame tp him six weeks ago and re-
quested that he attend her.
The woman chose the place In Eighty
fourth stre6 herself, DR.. Godwater said