New Britain herald., 1926-04-06
Interment in COnsecrated Ground in Mt. St. Bene- dict Cemetery, Just Over Line in Bloomfield -Bap- tized Roman Catholic, Condemned Man De- cIined Last Rites of Mother Church.
SHEAN'S CASE TO
 COME UP VERY SOON

Hartford, Conn. April LP)-In a plot of ground in Mt. St. Benedict's cemetery just over the Bloomfield line, lies today, the body of Gerald Chapman, who was hanged at the Wethcrslicld prison in the very early morning.
 No Priest at Service
 No priest went with the body to it's final resting place and there was no service of the Roman Catholic church. The body was claimed, as was possible under the law, by Rev. Michael F. Barry, Roman Catholic chaplain of the prison, who had said he would see that it was given burial such as he would desire a friend should have. Father Barry did not go to the cemetery with the body. He had already departed on q vaca- i tion of two months leaving no word of what had transpired during the three hours he was in the room across the entry from the death chamber with Chapman.
 Priest is silent
 There had been hope that the priest would tell something about the murder, something which he 1 could reveal of the singular charac- l uritl1 bnTf1 ha friar1 ly terms, something which would not enCroaCh upon the privacy of the relations of priest with the man, but the reverend father had said that he would say no word, answer no questions for to him the life of the man was a closed book.
 Chapman's body was hurried from the prison at 12;S0 this morning by Undertaken J. c. Dillon, his automo- bile hearse being followed by many other vehicles. At the undertaking parlors here several hundred persons had gathered and these were driver away by a squad of police.
 MT. Dillon refused to permit any one 10 enter his place, and turned away a number of the Curiously in clined who put forward various ex cuses which they thought entitled them to look upon the face of tn, dead man.
 Funeral Time Secret
 The funeral arrangements wer, kept secret, and the fact that tn body was buried in Mt. St. Benedict cemetery was made known by Fred erick J. Grochl, chief of Chapman counsel, just before he left for Nev York. It is understood that at frs it was suggested that Chapman body be buried in New York city bu | instead it was taken to the littl 5 cemetery which lies partly in thi city and partly in Bloomfield
 Was Roman Catholic The grave is in a plot of groun
 which has been Consecrated, it hay . ing been found that Chapman ha 2 been baptized in the Roman Catholl
 church as an infant and in his boy
 hood days had served on the alta II of the church which his parents al - tended.
 . No particulars of the burial weI
 made known which took place shor
 ly after the sun rose in the east
 all its brightness as the forerunn, ', of day of spring sunshine. n Sister Is Present . It was understood that there wei ' present besides Mir. Dillon, Nj ', Groehl and Attorney Ray Nj. Vile '' of Springfield. Mass, a sister
 Chapman, who came from out of Il
 city. No further mention was mat
 of her identity.
 No priest went with the body
 it's last resting place. Chapman ha
 not accepted the proffer of religio'
 consolation of the mother Churt
 from Rev. Father Barry in tho
 hours the two were together in Il n room which holds the death ce N This had been understood when q
 priest walked into the death char
 Der with Chapman carrying no CT
 cifx and offering no assistance z the man. He had stepped ahead
 the condemned man and taken l
 position a few feet away against |
 left side wall, intently watchil
 Chapman in those few seconds b
 fore the black cap was drawn. B
 the man made no sign towards { ty priest who with folded arms watch l. the body ierked high in the air or m to fall back q little with jar as t e- rope frightened.
 sr Refused Last Rites
 Father Barry kept his eyes on { al inert figure for several minutes a ls then, as the physicians came forwa ht to examine the body he nov es slightly away and averted his ga
 The man to whom he had been on willing in months gone by to give n- the consolation of his church, h W refused all in those last f II" moments.
 en Father Barry left the de5 H. chamber with the rest Of the W Ss' nesses, and returned with them he the prison offices and then went ( na
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