Evening star., 1945-04-19
burial dress, with high neck and
long, tight sleeves.

burial dfeSS, Win nlgn neck anu
long, tight sleeves.
Attended SpirituaDist Church.
Police learned that the daughter
had attended Spiritualist Church
regularly and had sought advice
from medium about how to COM
municate with her mother.
The mother, 1t was learned, was
the widow of DR.. James B. Wood
ward, originally Of Montpelier, vt.
She was said to have died In st.
Louis March 13, 1912.
Police were told by a cousin that
the daughter refused to allow the
body of her mother to be buried In
the family plot at Waterbury, VT.
and this caused a family quarrel
which lasted for years, but eventu-
ally was softened by time. Other
members of the family, according
to this informant, assumed that
Mrs. Woodward arranged for her
mothers body to be buried some
where privately.
Mrs. Hattie May Quinter Of 3455
Holmead place, who said Mrs. Wood
ward thought of her as a daughter,
said Mrs. Woodward told her she
sent her mothers body to Egypt to
be preserved permanently by q
"mummif1er" whom the daughter
had met on one of her trips abroad
According to the version which
Mrs. Quinter said she got from Mrs.
woodward, the body was sent back
from Egypt and at first buried in
Prospect Hill Cemetery near Boston.
About "a years ago, Mrs. Quinter
said, Mrs. Woodward moved to
Washington and began worrying
over not obeying her mothers last
wish, which was that she and her
only daughter never be separated"
Cats Body Mummified.
So Mrs. Woodward had the body
exhumed, spent several thousand
dollars for the mahogany casket
and had it sent to her home here.
The rocking chair placed in the
room with the coffin also had be-
longed to the mother, Mrs. Quinter
recalled.
Every afternoon" said Mrs.
Quinter, "she would sit in the rocker
and commune with her mothers
spirit"
Several times a week Mrs. Wood
ward, according to neighbors, visited
a spiritualist who lived in the same
block.
On one of her trips to Europe,
they recalled, Mrs. Woodward ac-
quired cat, which she named
Pyrenees. Several years ago 1t was
bitten by dog and died. She also
sent its body to Egypt and had it
mummif1ed, they said she told them.
Mrs. Quinter took charge of the
pets that were alive. She sent the
cats to friend in Virginia and
gave the dog to colonel who had
been friend of Mrs. Woodward.
Burial Plans in Will.
At the Office of Isaac Hit. Mrs.
WoodWard's attorney, 1t was said
today that her will discussed her
mothers body and directed that
she and her mother both be buried
in the family plot in Vermont.
Coroner Macdonald said the
mothers body had been preserved
by some process more effective than
ordinary embalming. 1t was, to all
intents, mummified, he said.
Police, seeking more information
about how the body had reached
the house on Holmead place, pointed
out that it was against the law to
transport a body in interstate COM
merce without a license and any one
who helped would be subject to
prosecution.
Newspapers yellow with age lined
the floors Of the house when visitors
found the macabre scene. Reaches
and other vermin roamed the place.
The furniture was old and broken.
An overstuffed chair in the front
room had come apart and its in
sides were strewn on the floor.
Often Consulted Minister.
At a Spiritualist church in the
neighborhood, it was said that Mrs.
Woodward was In frequent attend
ance and often consulted the min
ister. 1t was denied, however, that
any one there ever advised her to