The Indianapolis times., 1927-01-27
Saint and Simmer
BIZ ANNE AUSTIN

Wealthy RALPH CLUNY. 6s. was
murdered lgst bef9rs gsr ae 3 3 yas e F hayse
note for her sister FAITH, saying she
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becomes known. News Of the murder ls
kept from Cherry's invalid. mother. but
she Enows Of Cher ShsTy seyera times
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sad satYSpsjiB pBGB az HATHAWAY. Faiths fianee
and nephew of Cluny.. -, .....,
to force the marriage, but protests her
Faith suspects Chris Wiley, thinking
M money ' to Cherry, Charles Reilly Neff.
cluny cH8 made made cherry his chief beneficiary
but IL Immediately she and her. husband
are arrested by DEVLIN. deputy district
Faith Is furious when Bob tells her AT.
ToRNEY STEPHEN CHURCHILL. whom
he employed thinks circumstances are
against Cherry and suggests a plea OF
self f-defense as the best chance OF her
Peculiar footprints and bit OF torn
strap suggest that the murderer miRht
be 4 cripple. but this evidence is rot
Cherry il indicted for first-deTTee
mother.
Two automobiles were needed to
carry the mass of flowers which had
come from friends and strangers to
testify sympathy with the Lane
family in their bereavement.
"People are kind" Faith muir
INJURED to Bob, as the undertaken s
assistants piled the hundreds of
wreaths and bouquets into the wait
ing automobiles. "They arc trying
to tell us that they believe in Cherry.
But Mother would have been,pleased
If she could have known she was to
receive so many, flowers"
The official funeral party was made
up of members of the family only,
except for Bob Hathaway, who
would become one of the family upon
his marriage with Faith. But the
unofficial funeral train, which was
more than half a mile long, was
composed of hundreds of cars, filled
with morbid sensation seekers, and
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Lanes tried to ignore that long line
of cars, to achieve some small mea.
sure of privacy in their grief. A
squad of policemen, ordered by Chief
Morehouse to protect the family
from annoyance, kept the crowds al
bay at the gates of the cemetery
but at least dozen reporters and
two photographers slipped past the
officers, who made little or no effort
to detain them, and watched the
final services almost at the elbows
of the mourners.
The last rites over the body OF
Martha Lane were read by the Meth.
odist minister who had "officiated'
at the brief services at the Myrtle
Street house. Faith shut her eyes,
leaning heavily on Bob's arm, while
her left hand gripped her father
hot, gnarled old fingers. She tried,
with all her will power, to disasso.
ciate the beautiful words of the
burial service from the unctuous,
professionally comforting voice of the
fat old preacher who uttered them.
81 am the Resurrection and the
Life, saith The Lord"
If only. she could believe that her
mother was free of her body some
where, gloriously well-free, free,
and looking down upon them with
infinite wisdom and loving under.
standing
20 teach us to number our days
that we may apply our hearts unto
wisdom
But her mother was dead, dead
and Cherry was in prison, charged
with terrible crime, and she was
left to carry the burden of the family
and somehow, oh, God, somehow
somehow to save Cherry! Her ears
strained again to catch word OF
comfort from the deeply intoned,
solemn words of the changeIess,
deathless ritual
For as much as it hath pleased
Almighty God in His Providence to
take out of the world the soul of our
deceased sister, -
Deceased! The word was like a
sharp knife turning in her heart
The mother whom she could remem.
ber as strong, cheerful, willing
worker, singing about the house
scolding and praising three trouble.
some little chiIdren--herself, Junior
and an adorable little elf called Cher
ry-deceased! No, no. she had es
capped from pain and sorrow and tbs
disgrace of Cherry's trial for muir
der. Suddenly Faith knew that she