The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-17
HIS SCIENTIST WIFE
TRIES TO RAISE DEAD
Mrs. Mark II. Burch Works All
Night Over Husbands
Body.

Mark ~. Burch. a vealtny cotton
goods merchant Of TEonyIs street.
dropped dead yesterday afternoon In New
Haven after the Yale Harvard baseball
game. according to two physicians who
examined him. but his wife, an ardent
Christian Scientist. would not adml: his
death and insisted on having the body
brought TO their city home at Euclid Hall.
Broadway and Eighty-sixth street. in an
automobile ambulance. refusing TO permit
the undertaken TO whom the conveyance
belongs to touch the body.
ON their arrival here. shortly before
midnight Mrs. Burch refused any assist
ance except that of a negro hallboy and
the superintendent of the apartment house,
who helped her in carrying the body up
stairs and arranging 1t on a couch. All
during the trip from New Haven she
and Mrs Huber Of Al West Nintieth street
sat by the body of her husband. while
the undertaken rode on the front seat
because they would not let him sit with
them or aid them in any way.
Wife Locks Herself In.
Once in her apartment Mrs. Burch who
Is member OF tho Christian Science
Church at Ninety-sixth street and Central
Park West, locked herself In and refused
to see any one except her son. Ralph. who
graduated from Yale in 1912, All ques-
lions as to why the body had been
brought here in such way and as to
whether Mrs, Huber had concluded yet
that her husband was dead went unan-
swered.
Mr.. Burch was 60 years old and had
suffered two paralytc strokes. A third
one came yesterday as he was walking 10
the place where his automobile was
parked, after the Yale-Harvard baseball
game
Beyond Aid, Say Doctors.
| A New Haven undertaken arrived in an
automobile ambulance and also two doc
tors, who at once said that the broker
was beyond aid. The undertaken started
to take the body away but Mrs. Burch
insisted that her husband was not dead
| and that under the proper Christian Sci
ence treatment he would emerge from
the condition" into which he had lapsed
| She demanded that the body be put In
her automobile. but was finally persuaded
| to have IL put In the undertaiSer's ma
| chine. Then she and Mrs. Huber, also
Christian Scientist, got in beside 1t and
started back for New York. after secur-
ing a permit to remove the body from the
New Haven authorities These formal
ties took several hours and II was MOI
until 1880 o'clock that the trip was be
gun.
Before leaving Mrs. Burch said tina
when she reached her home she would b.
able to determine upon the Christian Sci
ence treatment which would surely reviv
her husband.
Relatives Go to Apartment.
The Burches. accompanied by Mr.. ant
Mrs Il. &. Anness. left their summe
home In Allenhurst n. j., early yester
day morning for New Haven. Accom-
panying them were Mrs. Burch's sister
Miss Anna Paterson, and Mrs, Huber
Mrs Anness also "a sister Of Mrs. Burcl
and Miss paterson are Christian Scien
lists but not SO Interested in It's teachings
IL was said, as Mrs Burch and Mrs
Huber. They came back to New Yor
by automobile and went to the apartment
In Euclid Hall.
At O'Clock this morning word cam
from tn. Burch apartment that Mrs
Burch had nothing to say about her hus
bands condition, but that the body wa
! lying on N couch, surrounded by pillow
and that the Christian Science treatmen
hainU al Q red