The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-01-26
WIDOW OF LATE DEMOCRATIC
LEADER DISPUTES WITH
SONS OVER BURIAL OF
REMAINS.

ton from superior court preventing
removal of the body and it is being
kept in a local u~ndertaker's vault
pending the outcome Of the fight.
Mrs. Bessie F. Wood, widow, wants
to bury her husbands body here,
while the brother want it to rest in
Rapid City, his home.
The hearing is being held today on
injunctions and the brothers have an
nounced that should the widow win
the suit they will carry 1t to the SUI
preme court of the state.
Buell. and Ben Wood are s%tepsons
of Mrs. Wood. Her own son, Fred
D. Norton, of Seattle, is blamed for
the fight. The sons will return to
the Dakotas as soon as the formal
hearing before Judge Tamman is ov-
er, to attend to their law practices.
From there they will direct the fight
for their fathers body returning to
this state when the matter gets into
the supreme court. They are receiv-
ing a flood of kilograms including one
from Gov. Robert Vessey Of South
Dakota and one from the democratic
members of the legislature, urging
that the body be returned to that
state.
Seattle, Wash.-The body of
.Chauncey Wood, former democratic
leader of the state of South Dakota,
who died in Providence hospital in
the city, following a second opera
tion for appendicitis last Sunday, is
in a bronze casket in an undertake
ing establishment in this city, and is
likely to remain there until the
courts of the state of Washington,
with a probability of federal courts
being implicated, give some one the
right to bury it. 1t is not expected
that the litigation will be cleared in
side of four or five months.
The widow, Mrs. Bessie F. Wood,
of this city, Saturday night had
Judge King Couth, of the superior
court sign a temporary injunction,
preventing Buel r. Wood of Lem
mon and Ben NJ. Wood, of Rapid
City, sons of the dead man, from TAX
ing the body to Dakota for burial.
This order was served at midnight.
Judge Tallman later made this
order permanent. AS soon as he
had done sc, attorneys for the sons
obtained an injunction preventing
the widow from removing the body
from the undertaking establishment,
until after such time as the matter
can be heard, and some agreement
reached.
The case was called before this
same court and though the two sons
were on hand, ready to defend their
stand, the woman remained in the
office of the clerk of courts, over
come with tears, and steadily refus-
ing to take a place on the witness
stand.
Mrs. Wood, the second wife to
the deceased, so the sons claim, is
persona non grata with the people
of South Dakota and especially
around the former home of her hus-
band. She has lived in this city for
five years, and has been visiting
here from time to time.
She was with her husband when
he came here in December, and was
expecting to remain until March.
There was some talk of a legal tan
gle, soon after the death, but actual
steps were not taken till after the ar
rival of the two sons on Monday ev-
ening.
The sons for the past few days
have been receiving great numbers
of kilograms from prominent people
in South Dakota, including R. s. YES
sey, governor Of the state, urging
them to bring the body back to the
mans native state for burial.
The sols will return to their ma
tive town after the formal hearing
Of the injunction they procured,