Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-06
Provision in Joint Will for
Burial of Couple in West
minister Not to Be Granted.
MARINE OFFICERS WIFE
MADE EFFORT TO TALK
Funeral Services for Slain Woman
Will Be Held Tomorrow, With
Interment Beside Mother.

A strange request in the joint will
OF Lieut.. Col. and Mrs. Richard Ben
nett Creecy, that, If they died together,
grave of Mrs. Creecy's mother in West
minister, Md, Cemetery, will not be
J granted. The will was drawn I'D last
December.
Mrs. Creecy. her lips sealed in uncon-
seriousness since she was attacked with
| hatchet by her husband a week ago
/ In the Mayf1ower Hotel, will be buried
tomorrow afternoon where she re-
| quested in the will, but her husbands
| body will remain in the grave at Ar
nngton National Cemetery, where it
was laid with full military honors last
Wednesday by fellow oficers of the
Marine Corps.
The strange request in the Joint will
OF the Marine officer and his wife was
discovered the day after Col. Creecys
funeral, when members of Mrs. Cree
cys family were notified of it by the
Safe Deposit 81 Trust Co. of Baltimore.
trustee for legacy of Mrs. Creecy and
depository for the will.
Tried to Talk.
The 45-year-old wife of the Marine
omcer died without reviving from the
coma which had persisted since she was
found week ago Sunday in a room at
the Mayhower Hotel, her skull fractur-
ed by three Ratchet blows.
Col. Creecy,s body lay nearby, shot
through the heart. The police, like a
Marine board OF inquiry, concluded
tnat Col Creecy had gone suddenly in
sane and attacked his wife before shoot
ing himself. Authorities expected that
MRS. Creecy would revive suficiently to
GEAR up what mystery remained
only last Saturday night Mrs, Creecy
gave signs of regaining consciousness.
and doctors pronounced her much i'm
proved" She rolled half over and her
ups framed .incoherent words.
Hospital attendants said the patient
seemed to be trying desperately to tax
Every effort was made without avail
TO make some sense of what the delirious
woman wanted to say. She died.
PHYSICIANS said, without making a
single ineligible utterance.
Burial to Be Tomorrow.
! Mrs. Creecy's funeral will be con-
| Quoted at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow after
noon from the Ascension Episcopal
| Church in Westminster. and she will
| be buried in the family plot in West
minister Cemetery beside her mothers
| grave
The services will be conducted bv
Rev. II. j. c. Martin, pastor of Ascension
church, and Rev. S. Hilton Orrick of
Baltimore, an old friend of Mrs. Creecy's
| FAMILY. The pallbearers, all friends. will
friends of Mrs. Creecy since her
be Guy w. Steele, Mrs. Creecy's at
torney; w. Frank Thomas, DR.. Louis K.
| woodward, Joseph N. Shriver, John L.
| Bennett and Benton Gehr.
Col. and Mrs. Creecy had regarded
westminster as their home, and at the
time OF the tragedy were negotiating to
buy home there and return to it
| after Col. Creecy completed his tour OF
! duty at Haiti
Col. and Mrs. Creepy came here when
the officer received furlough. They
] had planned to return to Haiti and
neld reservations to sail from New
York on the day the tragedy was dis
I covered by hotel attendants.
The police were able to locate the
man who sold Col Creecy the gun
which lay beside his body
! A clerk in a hardware store later
Identified the dead man as a stranger
! who had bought a Ratchet from him
a week ago Saturday.
Board to Meet Again.
Another meeting of the special board
OF inquest. tnquiring into the death of
| Col. Creecy. will be held before the final
report Is drawn up, about the latter
part of the week, and made 20 Mai.
Gen Ben H. Fuller. commandment of the
Marine Corps, who appointed it, The
board, under the Craftsmanship of Col.
Louis McCarty Little, in charge of the
Division of Operations and Training.
Marine Corp headquarters, held a meet
ing this morning and went over the in
formation it has thus far compiled. No
| information on Its deliberations was
made public.
| The board has been holding its
meetings and adjourning from time to
time, in the hope that Mrs. Creecy
/ might be able to throw some light on
the motive for the tragedy Now that
| she has died, this avenue of informant ton
Is shut of and the board has compiled
all other available information. Lieut..
Conndr. George p. Carr of the Naval
Medical Corps, a member of the board,
has been studying Col. Creecy's medical
/ record closely and the board has lis
tened to testimony from DR.. Edward J.
Cummings of 1885 I street. a former Of
f1cer of the Naval Medical Corps. who
treated Col. Creecy and is now in private
practice here.
The boards report, which is expected
| to be made late this week, will be sent
| to Gen. Fuller, who will forward it to
| Secretary Adams and Rear Admiral
David F. Sellers. the Judge advocate
| general of the Navy. who will pass on
the legality of the proceedings. Marine
] Corps officials said that Secretary
| Adams would likely make public the
findings of the board II that course Is
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