The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22
GIRL MURDER
VICTIM BURIED
Funeral of Madalynne Lat
liner Touches Hearts of
All Appleton.
SEARS RITES TUESDAY

Between two rows of boys and girls
her lifelong friends--the body of
Madalynne Latimer was carried to its
last resting place at Appleton this
morning and the curtain was lowered
on beautiful career-cut short by the
hand of an assassin.
The funeral cortage left the modest
little home on Washington street, IN
Appleton. at nine o'clock for st. Mary's
Catholic church where Msgr. w. j..
Fitzmorris read the service. The bur-
ial was in st. Mary's cemetery,
quaint little place, well cared for, and
far out from the rush and hustle of
modern things.
Detectives from Milwaukee and Ke-
nosha mingled incognito in the fun
eral crowd but nothing of any value or
Importance was brought out in this
way.
The sorrowing mother stood by val
iantly. She was weak and on the verge
of collapse. All day yesterday friends
of the family had come into the little
home where the remains lay in state,
and all tried to console Mrs. Anna
Latimer, the little mother. The bier
was covered with flowers. Dozens of
large floral pieces stood as sentinels
offering silent tribute to the dead.
Mother Won't Believe She's Gone.
The most tragically dramatic part
of the entire time since the remains
were brought to Appleton occurred just
after the few supper dishes had been
cleared Sunday night. A bit of fruit
was given the mother but she would
not eat. Seated around the dining
room table comforting the mother
were lifelong friends both of herself
and the children-rnen with gnarled
hands, stiff collars, and Sunday shoes,
and women. mothers who had fastened
with the supper work in order to at
tend the holy rosary. From time to
time the mother rose from her chair,
the one rocker in the room, and entered
the room where the body of her "Mad"
rested in its last peace.
Supported at all times by the COM
forting arms of one of her children,
she seemed never to tire of standing
before the casket - looking as though
she could never take her eyes away
from the pale girlish face that looked
up as if in sleep.
Many Left to Mourn.
Before the dead girls coffin, short
ly after the old fashioned eight-day
clock on the mantel shelf doomed the
quarter hour past eight, knelt those
who loved her best to pay their final
tribute, while the priest led them in
the rosary.
Then the friends left the home one
by one and there remained nothing but
silence, interpreted with a sign or,
sob from the little mother or Evelyn,
the twin-sister, or from Bernice and
Richard, the other brother and sister.
Until this morning when the funeral
came The mother selected lifelong
friends of Madalynne's as honorary
pail bearers. They we're, Agnes Toonen,
Lillian Rogers, Loretta Nooyan, Mar
garet Plutz, Alice Schelkie and Vesper.
Chamberlain. The pail bearers were
boys who had attended school with che
twins in Appleton. They were George
THESE, Harold Barrow, Claude Rogers,
Claire Brill and Carl Van Loan.
In the meantime the body of James
Sears lies in state in a little morgue
in Union, N. c., the former home of
his late parents. The funeral services
for the second victim of the brutal
hand of the assassin will be held on
Tuesday. Accompanying the remains
in North Carolina are Jimmie's two
brothers, Carl Sears and Worthington
Sears.