Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 180, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1915 — BURIAL IS STOPPED BY LAW [ARTICLE]

BURIAL IS STOPPED BY LAW

Woman Get* Injunction t«) Prevent Interment of Her Uncle in Chelsea (Mass.) Cemetery. Boston, Mass. —Injunction proceedings to prevent the burial of her uncle, Arthur G. Norse, at the naval cemetery in Chelsea, Mass., because it will cause her grief, humiliation and an irreparable loss if his interment takes place there, have been begun in the equity session of the superior civil court of Suffolk county by Helen V. Pearson of Philadelphia. She asks possession of the body “for proper burial in a proper ground." Her action is aimed against George Lee of Boston and George Doherty of Somerville as defendants. Lee, she sfiys, engaged Doherty, an undertaker, to bury her uncle’s body without consulting her. The grave hna been prepared at the naval cemetery. Judge McLaughlin ordered counsel to complete pleadings for a hearing.