Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-10
COURT ORDER At BIER
Conway Boys Father Enjoined
From Disturbing Funeral.
APPLIED FOR BY MOTHER
Says Divorced Husband Had Made
Attempt to Get Body.
FEARED A SCENE AT GRAVE
Lad Killed in Motor Accident at
Burke's Station to Be Buried
This Afternoon.

The law was invoked in the house OF
mourning today when Mrs. Annie b.
Conway. mother of James B. Conway.
the nineteen-year-oldb boy who met with a
fatal accident in a motor race at Burkes
Station. Va. last Thursday. applied to
the District Supreme Court for an injunc-
tlon to prevent the boys father. Albert +.
Conway from disturbing the funeral ar
rangements made by her. The funeral was
set for 2 o'clock this afternoon, and Mrs.
Conway in her petition to the court eX-
pressed the fear that unless restrained
the husband would cause a scene at the
obsequies. The parents were divorced
last year.
Justice Anderson. to whom the wife's
petition was presented by Attorneys r.
Ross Perry & Son. issued a restraining
order and set the matter for hearing next
Friday. The order also enjoined DR.. w.
G. Woodward, District health officer.
from revoking a burial permit issued to
the mother. II is stated that the father
has petitioned the health officer to revoke
the permit and give him an order to bury
the boy, and that Dr. Woodward had the
matter under consideration.
Wife Alleges Desertion.
Mrs. Conway in her petition in which
her father, Daniel B. Street of 1000 9th
street northwest joins, informs the court
that she was married June 26. 1888. to
Albert P. Conway. whom she DESCRIBES
as a book agent. who has been without
regular employment for two years. Her
husband. she says, deserted her and the
boy in May. 1902. and since November.
1906 she swears, has not contributed to
their support. During the interval she de-
clares she and the child have been de-
pendent upon the earnings Of her moth
er. sewing teacher in the public schools.
and what little the boy earned from time
to time. She was granted an absolute
divorce June 6. 1907. she declares.
After the boys accident last Thursday.
Mrs. Conway says, he was taken to
Emergency Hospital. where he died. His
remains were removed to her father s
home. where she and the boy lived. and
she proceeded to employ an undertaken
to prepare for the funeral and purchased
a lot in a local cemetery where she de-
sired her boy to be buried.
Father Demanded Remains.
Yesterday. she tells the court. Mr.. Con-
way demanded that the interment take
place in his family lot in another ceme-
terry. To this she strenuously objected,
she says. for the reason that she wanted
her boy buried in lot In which She
might hope to lie beside him.
On her refusal to accede to this request.
she says. the husband wrote the under
taking firm employed by her forbidding
them to make the proposed interment. and
also applied to DR.. Woodward for a revo-
cation OF the burial permit.
Mrs. Conway says she has no objection
to the boys father being present at the
funeral services and at the interment; in
fact, she declares she has invited him.
But she states she is afraid that unless
the court interveneS 1t may be impossible
to preserve decorum and prevent un-
seemly conduct at the funeral.
Papers Served on DIR. Woodward.
DR.. w. c. Woodward. health officer.
was served with the order Of the court
restraining him from revoking the
burial permit early today, and when
asked what he proposed to do he said.
Why. obey the court. of course"
He said that the revocation Of the
burial permit was requested by the
father of the boy.