The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-11-27
Sun Scarcely Up When
Body Is Removed From
Home to Cemetery.
BRIEF SERVICE
BY HIS PASTOR
No Morbid Crowds Nearby as
Procession Moves Through
Silent Streets-B oyllood
Friends His Pall-Bearcrs,
With Family Only at
Last Sad Rites.

After lies httul fever, Henry Clay
Beattic. Jr.. sclr-confcssed and penitent
wifc-murdcrer. sleeps well.
While the sun was yet low in the far
horizon. and with only u few OF hl8
own beloved about the grave. they laid
him TO rest at TAO o'clock yesterday
morning. Frost lay upon the ground,
ana there was n biting chill In the air
Stark, saunt trees held up their lcafless
branches In Maury Cemetery, where
the boy now sleeps, and along tho sad
driveway the grass had turned into it's
autumnal sheen.
Above, a few clouds, rcddcninE in tho
dawn, strcakcd tho sky, and here and
there a few birds twitterod mourntully
from the bouShs. The morning was
bright and clear, and except for the
few who had come to mourn and nay
their last respects to tho dead, there
was no hint of sorrow in the dawning
day. ~
Brief Service ut Home.
1t had been planned to lay Henry
'chttio TO rest AT o'clock. II WAS
half an hour later when the last sad
rtes were performed and the body set
tled INTO the bosom OF eternal night &
The pail-benrcrs and ii few ncur
friends gathered In the Reattic home
shortly after o'clock. Rev. John j.
FIN, who had accompanied the boy and
consoled him during his last days on
earth, road the short funeral service
OF the faith in which Henry had sought
his last refuge. About tho cusK..t
stood the gray-haired father, the faith
ful brother, the young sister, the two
aunts who had never forgotten thn
crrinS youth. and some of the friends
of his boyhood.
Tho short services over, tho coffin
ug n In l,pn
cortesc moved to AIaury Cemetery y
lew women of the neighborhood Keep
or Jones and two police officers In plain
clothes werc waiting es
Tho hcarse stopped opposite the
Seattle section, and the seven carriages
containing tho family and pail bearers
halted on either aide. a light wagon
loaded down with flowers, had preceded.
Transferred to Grave.
L IL was but the work OF a moment to
transfer tho caskct to the open grave.
~ It's foot stood the immediate menu
bcrs of the dead boys family. Au
heads bowed as Mr.. Fix bent his brow
ana prayed over the body from which 5
the soul had fed. His face haggard.
drawn and deeply lined with The fur
rows of unuttcrablc sorrow, the father
ciutchcd his daughter tightly by tho
arm and remained still. with his eyes
fixed upon the grave. At tho right,s
'',SS' 't''f Nv " Cu tHc lclL StOOu
the brother
Relieved OF their burden. tho pail.
bearers stood on the east side of TIE
grave Several of them-thosc whoE
had been lifelong friends of tho dead
youth-wcpt openly. One among tIlem
was he who had sacrificed his all tn
save his friend. he who had blackene.s
his own chnractcr to spare stigma from
the others name f5t
Tears In Preachers Eyes.
though his voice was steady Mr..
Fix could not keep back tho tears Hs
had frequent recourse TO his handker-
chief.
In the solemn stiffness of tho morn
Ing, interrupted only by an tinsup-
pressed sob here and there, tho mia
istcr of God repeated the sacred words
OF burial. His lips clcnchcd tightly
and with his arm claspcd close 10 tho
girl by his side. tho aged father list
oned to the comforting words said
above his son. Grim. unuttcraDle GRIEF
was there, and about that never-to-
forgotten Picture of WOO the cur
tain must DO drawn.
No eye was dry tho coffin was low
cred into the pit. 1t was an exact
duplicate, silver braided, of that in
which his wife had been laid TO her
eternal rost. They sleep side by side.
At tho head Of the young wifes grave
stands granite memorial to her hus-
bands mother. There is as yet ne
memorial to her name. At tho HEIR
OF the other grave arc erected memo.
rial stones to a twin sister and brother
of Henry Bcattie. On the coffin were
inscribed the words. In silver plaic,
"Hcnry Clay Rcattie, Jr., twenty7sevcI.
years of age" ThS handles were OF
old silver is
Masses of Flowers.
Flowers were rfassed above both
graves. Chrysanthemups pink and
white roses and nutumnal leaves were \
strcwl, iavishiy above the two mounds. =
at the foot and joining both was
placed an arch built on two pillars OF T
pink roses md crowned with roses Of
white. Wcven among purple imn,or-s 3;
tellea were inscribed the words, United
Beyond tho River Thus in their eter-5
nal sleep tho young man and woman
were united again by the. unfailing
love of their friends Only foot OF
sod separates them now; Near the boy
sleeps his mother, And near is o place
for him who shall follow next va
Thn services wsra short and simpler
Striving TO keep back the tears. Mr..
Fix prayed III q soft, ssntls voice for