Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-12
SUTHERLAND'S BODY
is BORNE TO GRAVE:
MOURNERS ABSENT
Little Old Woman Lays Peonies on
Breast of Dead-Widow Weeps at
Bier-Does Not Follow Hearse
to the Cemetery

Unshriven, unkempt and unsung, the
inanimate clay which in life had been
Carl d. Sutherland yesterday afternoon
was laid in an obscure grave in Rose
Lawn cemetery.
Without benefit of clergy, with
dearth of sympathy and lack of kindly
hand the body was prepared for the
grave and sent to its last resting place
with only the undertaker's assistants
and the gravediggers to officiate.
There was but one floral offering to
be laid upon the plain black box in
which was placed the body of the MUIR
derer and bandit, and that a small
bunch of peonies taken from the gar
den plot of some back yard.
Early yesterday morning, before the
morbid and curious had begun to gath
er at Pierce Brothers morgue, little
old woman dressed in a plain gray
skirt and waist, with a black toque
hat on her head and heavy veil over
her face came to the morgue door and
asked the attendant if that was the
place where the body of Sutherland
lay.
Answered in the affirmative she re-
quested permission to see it, and she
was taken to where the body was.
idOCo OH OISdSh
She did not glance at the dead face.
She expressed no emotion at the sight
of the body whatever, but quickly I'M
wrapping from a newspaper the bunch
of peonies she placed them upon the
breast of the dead man.
Without another word she turned
and passed out. thanking the attend
! ant at the door for his kindness in ad-
hitting her.
Peonies-anger, hate, animosity.
This is what the flowers placed on
the breast of the dead murderer sig
Nifty. With that silent symbolical mes
sage from the unknown source still
upon his breast the body of Sutherland
was removed from the morgue and car
ried to the grave.
All day yesterday until shortly after
the noon hour people came and went
at the morgue, viewing the body. They
We're the idly curious and the morbid
of mind. More than 1000 people passed
in line and viewed the face of the dead
bandit. There was not one to shed a
tear, to utter a word of sympathy or
give a kindly glance.
None came to view but in whose
heart was the feeling of satisfaction
that the bandit had died even though
by his own hand.
Shortly after noon Mrs. Sutherland,
the widow of the dead criminal, ar
rived at the undertaking parlors, and
from that time all others We're barred
from the morgue.
The body was placed in a plain black
coffin and removed to the chapel
where for an hour the little woman
who called the murderer husband was
| left alone with her dead.
She was then joined by her brother
| Charles Sinclair, and two woman
friends and another man. and after
they had taken a brief glance at the
face of the dead man they led the
widow from the room.
Widow Returns to Long Beach
They We're ushered out by a side
door to avoid the crowd which wa.
gathered in front, and then they wen
east on Ninth street past the spo
where Sutherland had shot down Cap
tain Auble, and on to Main street
where they took Long Beach car anC
returned to that city.
After Mrs. Sutherland and hel
friends had gone the undertakers' mel
screwed down the lid of the coffin, {
and the box lifted into it.
With only the driver on the seat
with no pallbearers and no mourners
even without those of idle curiosity
the body was taken away to the little
plot in the cemetery and there deliv
cred to the gravediggers.
There was no one at the grave eX
cept these men, paid so much by the
day to do this class of work, and with
out delay, with no sentiment anC
merely in a matter of fact way the cot
fin was lowered into the ground ant
quickly clod after clod fell upon the
lid of the box. giving forth as they
struck the hollow, muffied sound which
was dirge, requiem and benediction.