The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1914-02-07
WIFE CALLS BACK
HUSBANDS BODY
ANDSTOPS BURIAL
Services Halted at the Grave
on Affidavit of Suspected
Poisoning.
DIED NATURAL. DEATH.
Autopsy by Coroner Proved II
aCaSe of Chronic Heart
Disease.

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Just ~ the body OF James J. Burke
Of No. b2S East Ono Hundred and
Forty-nfth street was being lowered
into . grave in St. Raymond's Gem
etery. IN the westchester section Of the
Bronx. this afternoon. Coroner Je-
rome Healey. Assistant District-At-
torney Seymour Mork and Coroner's
Physician Riseslman arrived In An
automobile ana stopped tho fnterment.
BY direction Of the Coroner the coffin
WAS carried into . Toulouse. the
mourusrs following.
Then arrived Mrs Florence Sullivan
Burke. the dead mans widow. Half an
hour before she had nled With the
Coroner an afidavit In which she said
that she believed the death OF her hus-
hand. who left her last November. was
susplcious
The aindavit carried intimations that
Burke had died Of the effects Of poison.
Mrs.. Burke based her charges. she
said, On the fact that she had not been
permitted to go her husband, who died
In the homo Of HE father. James n.
NurkA
PROVED Nc DIED OF CHRONIC
HGAN oleEAoG.
Coroner Hsaiy conducted . dra.
matte inauisitlon In the little tool
houos. Durks's father and mother.
tive sisters and two daughters were
present with about twenty other rsla.
tives. ana thslr sobs and cries could
be heard throushout the cemetery.
Nra Josephine Burke insisted that
she believed her husband had been
poisoned. ana Coroner Hsalsy finally
ordered IN autopsy.
d. Riegslman reported that Burke
had died Of chronic heart dissAss.
aggravated BY kidney trouble. Mr..
Josephine Burke. over the protests Of
Burke's families. vas allowed to look
on the face OF her husband. and then
tho interrupted informant ceremony
was resumed.
Burke was fifty years old ana was
associated with biz father In a neck
tie faOtory and In the ownership Of
the Morris Park Garage ct Morris
Park avenue and DslAncsy Place. His
6rst wtfs died thrss years aso and no
married the woman who caused to.
day's proceeding about two yeArs
later.
The couple went 10 live at No. go
East One Hundred and Seventy ninth
street. Their married life was not
happy. and Burke. In November. 1918.
lsft his wife and went to live at the
homo Of bis father. He WAS III at
that time ana feared he had Bright's
disease.
TR,gp IN VAIN TO STE nGR
HUSBAND.
From the time her husband left her
Ars. Burke was unable to eco him
She made many visits to the Burke
homo. but was met At the door by
the father or daughters OF her hus-
band and refused admission. In De-
osmbsr she sought the aid Of the
courts In an action to compel hel
father-in.lAw to admit her to the
presence OF her husband but was un.
successful.
Burke died last wednesday. A Ger.
tificate signed by the physician who
attended him In his last illness gave
the cause Of death - nephritis.
A requiem high mass was sung ovsl
the RENAME Of Burke ct 10 o'clOcl
this morning Ia o. Jsromes Church
Alexander avenue and East One Hun
dred and Thirty eighth street. Mrs.
Burke appeared there. but was not al
lowed to at with the mourners ant
when she tried 10 approach the coffil
a. Il was being horne from the churcl
she was forcibly repulsed by Nom
bers OF the Burke family.