The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-09-14
Mind Snaps AS Body is Being
Lowered Into Grave At
Cemetery
FORCED TO BIND HER
BY BURIAL STRAPS
Tries to Leap Into Grave of
Murdered BrOther-Hos-
pitals Refuse to
Take Her In

WASHINGTON. Sept. 13.-Mania
acute and horrible overthrow the
reason of slender dark-eyed Myrtle
Smith when they lowered the body Of
her brother. murdered and burned,
into his grave at Mt. Oiivet ceme-
terry to-day. Bound hand and foot
with the webbing used by under
takers. and hastily stripped from
around the little white casket, she
was lifted bodily into carriage and
after being refused admission to two
hospitals. Is in Washington Asylum.
At the Florida avenue home. dark
ened by the death of the little boy
who was found mutilated and burned
in the shop of Tony ,Milano. Sunday
morning. the mother and the younger
daughter lie Frustrated. Little May.
the younger child, Is in a critical
condition. Physicians and nurses are
in constant attendance
Home is Broken.
Harry Harry, oh. wait, III get
him. Hes my baby brother" she
means. She apparently knows moth
ing of what is going on about her.
The aftermath of death. sorrow and
tragedy has fallen heavily on the two
frail girls and the women. Their homo
is broken. and the physicians declare
that even they cannot tell what the
end will be.
Myrtle, the girl who in 8 frenzy
hurled herself upon Tony Milano at
the morgue during the inquest yes
terday, In In a critical condition. Ply
sicians may be unable to bring her
through the mania which now holds
her
May. the younger sister, was 5ast
recovering from an attack %! neF-
vous prostration when her brother
vas killed.
scenes OF Grief.
Almost Understandable scenes Of GRIEF
marked the final rites for Harry
Elton Smith. The little home On
Florida avenue rang with the means
OF broken hearted mother and the
shrieks OF Myrtle. who had idollzed
the boy.
In the little parior Of the home,
where fer two days the requiem tapSrs
have flickared upon masses or painted
flowers on the waii-the work OF N.Y.
ties slim white hands-~the girl sat
this morning by the side Of her slain
brother.
When friends arrived. and the I'M
dertaker's men attempted to HIT the
little casket 10 bear II tn the hearse.
the slender girl. clothed in deepest
black. shrieked. She fell upon the
coffin She demanded that the sealed
allowed to take a last look at the
dead child.
She was restrained. though, and.
march caifIter. " ent 10 st. Paaf $
church. where the coIian WAS borne by
iJr. Il. X. Leon, j. ). erAnser. John
Miller and Kaalln Madison, sal friends
oi the dead boy.
She sat through the service, calmly.
and MAS calm during the long rae
out to Mt, oiivet Cemetery.
She was foremost Oy the side OF
the grave, but SHE stood calm while
the arab clothed men. whose shoes
ed clay upon their soles. adjusted
the web straps about the little casket
and placed ii over the grave
Tries to Leap In Grave
Then as the LITTLE coffin began slip
pin downward tho girl shieksd. Sne
jumped Tor the open grave. Phssi-
clans and friends who had feared such
an outbreak grssped ner ara dragged
her backward from the yawnlng hole.
She fought with the strength of Ten
MEN. They held her by the greatest
difficulty, and It was finally necessary
tor them 10 take the webbing which
had been used In lowering the body
OF her slain baby brother and tie her
hands and feet
A physician administered an opiate.
was lifted into carriage and driven
hurriedly to hospital in the north
west part of the city. There the ply
sicians refused entrance TO the fren-
zied girl
Her friends leaped back into the
carriage and drove TO another hospi-
tally in another section or the city.
There they met with like refusa.
There was but one thing to do. Wash
ington Asylum Hospital. Away out
by the grim pile OF buildings known
as the District jail, where Tony Ma
limo, accused slayer of her brother.
sits to-day. was the one refuge for the
crazed girl.
Fate and circumstances that have
grimly TESTED through the whole Sick
sning tragedy that has come over the
lives Of the Smiths was at work again.
and this afternoon Myrtle Smith, as
much a victim of the sIayers fury as
the young boy found DEAD. lies raving
on a cot not a hundred yards away
from the building. where the man
charged with responsibility for this
ruin Is confined.