The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-21
RACE TO CEMETERY
With FRANKS BODY
Motor Hearse Travels Through
Brooklyn at Rate Of 35
Miles an Hour.
No DELAY At THE GRAVE

TIE h1dy Of Leo 81 Frsn< vas bur
,sd yes srdsy in the N.unt carmel Gem
etsry 81 Cypress HI. after oeinx
~hirIed from hs fathers house IN an
sg;omsbils hssrse through BrOosiyn at
ths rate 0f thI-ty-hvs miles ar hou-.
The hea-se u,s followed ~ four Other
automobiles h...d 18th members Z the
family. ard FAR o@a.rd were three ma.
mir. carrysrz reporters. one Of rh.ch
broke Soun 9-Ier tire pare
Toe service a. tho grave. conducted
b. Rsbbis Lyon and Marx. took Just
seven minutes. and then tlN fun~ra!
parry hurried back % The ~s8t0nooil-s
and vas driven back 70 ,hs Fra h ne
at Is: UnderhiiI averus
rndN-'sksr Strauss described = as
the quickest fu-e-al he had Sye- seen
tn -Usua and somewhat ~u..deriug
rate at which 'hinzs we're lone being
due 10 tire desire ~ the family 20 avoid
TIRE pJss Billy o. such sc--ss a. marked
The funeral Of Charles BsckAr
There wee othe- t1,nz- ta4f marked
a.. funeral Il Frank-ths curious crowd
90 women and ch.ldr-r. With '.r> ard
there = feV men. w1o watched quietly
q, the Jddy 0a- carrfed from tA- hou~-
W. VI "a ~ - wv ~ ~"
widow the affective Inc OF police
guards. the group Of reporters. pho;os-
rapher- ard moving picture mn 10
recorded ne last .hap,@r u the Prank
cas-
Little Rect In Frank Hosse.
Tn.rs mad be.n little rec, n the
Prank house the night befors. LEh:
from bshi-d the curtains ard now
and then a shadow showed where some
ore Of his relatives passed before 4
window or AT waiting So- the day
Preparations FOR the funeral began early.
Sut stu earlier a few persons gathered
or tire opposite SIDE y ne street 70
make sure that they would miss nothing
Of what might take pace
~ : O'Clock Their Ts-e about leo
persons there. kept back 0y policemen
undsr command Of Inspector Murphy
ard acting Captain smith. ne;1@- o.
hem b. u-!f-rm A taE4cab drew %
tefors the house and a man s1d sonsn
dressed in mog-rs-g hurried Up ~
step@ The undertake. arrived ard the
door ope--d before ne asd a chance 70
ring. The services began ? lttle b~-
fore , o.c.ogk. and at 80 - door
opened and the black caskst covered
with a purple ciotl appeared. oor7e b.
four p~aUbea-=-s. and vas placed N me
fearsr
Ms. I<o Frank. Weeping quietly ard
supporrat by ono o. the men OF the
family. then came down the steps With
Prank father r. mother Just behind
her and then the rest Of 'hs funeral
part. A. they stepped INTO auiono-
tleS the first incident % the remarkable
ride to the cemetery occurred Tne
hearse spAd ~ and before me other
sutOmoO les had started vas a block
away. going a. = rate which threatened
30 leave the rest % the party ,ar be-
hind
tap QuirLI, Closed.
pu. ne chaureurs ~ the oth~r ar,
also picked w spSe1. cio-ti ne gap
t.tween them and -" hsarse ana ~.
procession went srayinE humping and
swinging around corners II forced one
IN think Of tina; last ride o: Frank
through the back roads Of Georgia. the
ride Of which 49, yet the world knows
soothing. except that az The end OF Il the
ceath which ne had feared 20. eeeks
overlook in.
The miles TO the cemetery were
covered in a fev minutes and then ~.
hssrse vas halted nea- the grave. be-
ID which stood abog- forty persons,
riend OF the Frank family wi'h TO
delay Rabbi Lyons began the service
BY reading the Hebrew prayer FOR The
dead and Rabbi Marx said a few words.
There Eere no unusua demonstrations
OF grief-on.y what might BE expected
OF relatives placed in sucn trying cir
cumstsnces-
Twenty minutes from the time the
funeral procession had iNfr the Frank
home he mourners hed left the zrsy.
ard were reenterinz their automobiles
A. The house later memo@Ts OF the Fam
fly denied themselves 20 callers and W.
fused 10 say anything further about the
case