The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1911-01-27

IaIS VI uSlS SiSued ny JuuSe 1lllihul
at his house earlier in the evening
forbidding them to allow the body
TO leave their premises. 1t vas a
hearing to make. this temporary or
der permanent that brought the
matter before Judge Tailman he
held with w. A. P. Myers attorney
for Mrs. Wood that the law gave
the widow the right to dispose Of
the body though urged by Fulton
that precedent showed that senti-
ment should govern. The dead man,
Mr.. Fulton argued, was known in
every hamlet in his state, and be-
longed to many organizations there,
while his first wife was buried in
the Rapid City cemetery The law
will not permit me to decide other
wise than l have done,S said the
judge, but l trust that Mr.. Myers
may be able to persuade the widow
to send the body to Dakota l am
sure that after the strife and grief
have worked away, the bereaved
will feel better to have it that way"
Myers said he would not undertake
to comply with the judges request.
The sons will return to Dakota as
soon as the formal hearing before
Judge Tallman is over to attend to
their law practices. From there
they will direct the fight for the re-
turn of their fathers body to that
state when the matter gets into the
supreme court
They are receiving flood of tel
egrams, including one from Cover
nor Wesley, of South Dakota, and
from members of the legislature
urging that the body be returned to
the state.
The action of Mrs. Wood is
prompted by nothing more or less
than the rankest kind of unjustifed
jealousy" said Buell. R. Wood. al
ter Judge Tallman's action. "She
came to Seattle because the people
in South Dakota would not receive
her, and she is determined my faith
er shall not lie beside his first wife
in the place where he lived his life
and won the respect of the whole
state. My father lived in South Da-
kota thirty-five years; he has been
mayor of Rapid City and was for
many years prosecuting attorney of
remington county. He was the
nominee of his party for congress.
for supreme court and for the gov
ernorshlp OF the state. In the cam
palgn last fall for governor he re-
peatedly assured the people of
South Dakota that he would never
| make his home in Seattle, and that
it was his desire to lie among them
when dead. This man, Frank. whom
my father has practically supported
tor ten years, is the real instigator
OF the effort to keep the body here
Frank tried to practice law in Ran
i'd City and made an ignominious
failure"
There stands the man who can
tell your honor the real reason for
burying my father here" exclaimed
Ben M. Wood. almost weeping, to
Judge Tallman, after the second or
der had been made, pointing to
Frank, "and if that man will BRING
the widow into the court room she
can tell your honor the pecuniary
reasons for their course"
Frank assured the court that he
had tried to persuade Mrs. Wood to
appear, but that she refused. Only
last summer the dead man and his
wife adopted Dorothy Wood. aged
six, by order of tile supreme court
here. The petition as set forth in
the order stated that Dorothy was
found on the doorstep Of her foster
parents when but two months old
and that nothing had been found re-
garding her real parents.