New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-20
FUNERAL SECRET;
ATDAWN FRANK
GOES TO GRAVE
Body Held at Undertakers
Until Late Hour-Last
Rites in Home.
FATHER SEES COFFIN
TAKEN FROM TRAIN
Sister Comforts WidOW-Wom'
en- in Crowd Near Station
Silent Tribute Paid.

Silent Tribute Paid.
Shortly after II o'clock last night
hearse swung from Grand into Under
hill Avenue at rapid gait, stopped
h.fore the house at 152 Underhil
Avenue. five men jumped from the
seats. the rear doors were opened,
black casket with purple covering was
lifted out by the attendants and car
r;od into the house, whose doors were
Immediately shut, and the body OF Lee
NJ Frank rested in the house OF hi'
parents. .L;. .;,,
yesterday morning.
The reserves of the Grand avenue
station formed line around the bloch
at the Frank home to prevent any pos
sible outbreak among the morbidly Gu
rious who had clustered in the streets
all day waiting to catch a glimpse Of
the coffin.
Owing to the lateness of the hour
there was only a small group Of people
in the street opposite the Frank house
When the hearse arrived they made.
rush forward, but were repulsed Dy
| the policemen. Three detectives ac-
com panied the hearse.
! When the coffin was carried into the
house the explosion Of a fashlight
/ made by a photographer caused a COM
/ motion in the neighborhood. as many
| thought that the report had been
caused by shot.
Otto Stern, brother-in-law Of the
dead man, said last night:
please don't ask me questions TO-
night. Come around tomorrow after
noon and everything will be all right,
| Franks body had been kept all day
/ at n Brooklyn undertaker's establish
ment.
According to the Jewish ritual burial
will take place at Cypress Hills Gem
/ etery at sunrise this morning.
/ The police estimate that fully ten
| thousand people paraded the street in
front of the Frank home during the
day.
The train bearing the body, due al
| the Pennsylvania Station at s o'clock
rolled in twenty minutes later. Negro
I porters, grouped on the balcony at a
point Just above Track @, on which the
train arrived, had been squatted behind
the railing for several minutes, peering
down. A score of other railroad en-
ployes assembled near the sliding gate
opening to the track stairway.
Twelve detectives, under Lieutenant
Van Twistern, kept guard near this
gate to check possible demonstra'
tons, and other city and railroad de-
( tectives moved watchfully around the
main station floor. Uniformed police
men took shifting posts inside and
outside the station.
There were less than fifty persons
in the station whom business had Dot
brought there.
Father Awaits Body.
Wheels grinding dismally against
the rails, and the steel of the cars
clanking-to the minds of those who
waited-gloomily, the train announced
itself as it slid out of the tunnel, and
/ the gate was opened to the train floor
Mrs. Otto Stern, Leo's sister; Rudolph
Frank, their father, and two friends
| stood together away from the otneI
persons toward the west end of the
platform.
Mrs. Leo Frank. eyes starey from
/ thought and sleeplcssness, was one OF
the first persons 10 leave the train
Mrs. Stern and Rudolph Frank stepped
| forward. They circled her shoulder:
with their arms and rested their face!
against hers affectionately. They trieC
to say something TO each other, blu
the words came out in unintelligibl'
mumbling. This weeping group wal
joined by Charles J. Jacobs, Of CHI
cago, Leo's uncle; DR.. David Marx, o
Atlanta, Leo's friend and spiritua
comforter; Alexander E. Marcus
brother-in-law of Mrs. Leo Frank
Herbert J. Haas, lawyer, and Henri.
A. Alexander, Leo's principal attor
ney, all of whom mad come up will
Mrs. Leo Frank.
Other passengers hurried from tn,
train and went upstairs, pausing no
even to wait for glance at tn,
vanished pine box that baggage clerk
were trying to take from the baggage
car. The clerks at first attempted Il
get the box out before the trunks an
other things, but that was impossible
Franks father came to the baggage
car door. A detective put his han'
on the aged mans shoulder
I'm his father" said the sufferer
and the detective withdrew his hand
The father stood silently beside tn
baggage truck on which the box wa
lifted and wheeled into the elevator
Then Mr.. Frank and the others wen
slowly up the stairs and crosse'
through the foot of the driveway
where a sort of automobile hearse ali,
a taxicab were waiting.
Lines of spectators had been forminl
for an hour at the south end of tn
Seventh Avenue side of the station
The police held them back from tn
mouth of the driveway.
The hearse whizzed up the drivewa,
and at Seventh Avenue turned north t
Thirty-second Street, through which i
sped to Fifth Avenue. Conversatio OIL
Of spectators in front of the station
was not loud, and there was no specia
indication by the men and the womel
standing respectfully there that Their
was anything unusual in the spectacle
But for the close proximity Of Motor
cycle Patrolman John II. Howe to tn
hearse, the swift carrier Of a lifeles
body would not have drawn a secon,
glance.
Few Recognize Frank Hearse.
From the automobile. directly be
hind the hearse, it was to be observe,
that not more than five or six persons
in auto, streetcar or on foot, who pase,
or were passed Dy the hearse, knew tina
the body of Frank was being carrie,
back to Brooklyn. Six years ago. las
January. after the wedding of his sis
terto Otto Stern. Frank went back t,
Atlanta. His departure at that time
living, probably attracted no less at
tention than his return yesterday. did
At her wedding Mrs. Stern last saw tn,
living face of her brother.
IN Tho fam tfpaas tha
moved rapidly down Fifth Avenue, tina
passersby guessed the identity of tn,
hearse's burden, these persons turned
| ahnut and aued liz nropress for I'll 70,