Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-09
CLAIMED AT GRAVES|DE
DRAMATIC SCENE ENACTED IN
FLUSHING. N. Y, CEMETERY.
While Burying Woman Known as
Wife, Edward Chapman Charged
With Dual Life.

NEW YORK, September 9.-There was
a dramatic scene at the Lutheran ceme-
terry in Flushing yesterday on the arrival
of the hearse containing the body OF
woman who had died Tuesday from burns
received in saving her baby boy at Little
Neck. Those in the funeral party knew
the dead woman as Mrs. Edward Chap
man. wife of the foreman of the Dougles-
ton Realty and Construction Company.
But at the cemetery a woman con-
fronted Chapman and cried that she, not
the dead woman, was his wife. And as
the mourners stared the scene was made
still more dramatic. for j. F. Brandt Of
Jamaica came forward and said the dead
woman was his wife. not Chapman's.
The woman who said she was Mrs
Chapman asserted that Chapman had de-
find him until she read of the tragedy AZ
Little Neck in Wednesday mornings
papers. She then hurried to that town
and thence to the cemetery.
Planned Publicity.
There she met Brandt and made plans
with him for the confronting OF Chap
man beside the grave of the woman he
claimed as his wife. Brandt was ac-
companied by two boys, who. he said,
were his sons and the dead woman's.
Chapman denied that the woman with
Brandt was Mrs. Chapman and there
was violent argument. She produced
certificate, showing there had been a
marriage in 1900. and waved IL in Chap
mans face. Then Brandt showed what
he said was a certificate of his marriage
to the woman about to be buried. After
that the claimant OF Chapmans name,
wild with rage, showed him a photograph
of himself and her.
Certificates and photographs were ex-
hibited to the undertaken in charge OF
the funeral. He said that he must go
two boys forward, but the undertaken
proceeded with his work, and the woman
i'm the ccffin went into her grave as Mrs.
Chapman.
cemetery the self-styled Mrs. Chapman
called up Flushing newspapers on the
phone and informed them that the dead
woman was Mrs. j. f. Brandt. Then she
went to the Flushing Hospital. where the
baby saved at Little Neck is recovering
from injuries. and requested the superin-
tendent to inform Chapman's mother, at
No. 40 East i4Sth street, Manhattan, il
anything should happen TO the child.
IL was learned last night that when an
ambulance surgeon from the hospital first
called at the Chapman home in Little
Neck after Tuesdays tragedy Chapman
gave MS name as EDWARD Francis Red
wood. One of the Flushing papers print
ed the name of the woman burned 10
death as Mrs. Redwood.
An Investigation Ordered.
Later DIR. A. W. Jaggar went 10 the
Chapman house and was told the victim
was Mrs. Dorothy NJ. Chapman. Coroner
A r. Amber said last night that the
name appeared on his records as Chap
man. He added that he would subpoena
Chapman in order to investigate the state
ments made by the claimant of wifehood
and by Brandt.
Chapman did not return 10 his home at
Little Neck after the scene at the ceme-
terry.
The newspaper account that caused the
activity of the two visitors to the Gene
terry told how Mrs. Edward Chapman put
out flames that enveloped her baby. not
needing the fact that she herself was on
fire. Having eXtinguished the blaze in
the baby's clothing she flung of her own
garments. but by that time she had been
burned from head to foot. She died with
in few hours.