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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6147, 30 July 1881, Page 7

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A very a itional scene took place at the funeral otjpealthy' jeweller named Robert Tittsburg "/recently. InJ the morning,,; ong/Ithe ..numerous, carriages which dr up to the house of the dead was; ie containing .the, wife from whom ' hi had ','b'een ' divorced several; months ag When the carriage, opened in front of J former -house the woman stc id out "and rang the door bell.. One of the nily saw her and slammed the door in hei ce; > The coffined remains /were removed t lie . Twenty-fifth Street Methodist Churc] ml placed in the middle ; aisle among themiimers. ' Tho woman was not. permittedjg come near'the coffin, and during theiremonies stood beside the pulpit. During'th(2d services she hurst into tears and exclaiej frequently, " Jly. husband.' Oh, my hijaM !" There was no.one near her, bitterly, and was conscious that she w, regarded as an offensive intruder. Rev. D. 4McCready, pastor of the congregation, ofaated. When the address closed, the lid wtremoved from the. glass of the casket, anthe minsiter invited those present to look foiSe last time.on the face of the dead. who during all. this time was seemgfy more affected than any one else in thehhrch, moved frantically toward the coffin, *<j was within a-few feet of it when Mr. Sith, a brother of the deceased, threw his Sns. ov'cr...the.glass .face and prevented ffi from looking in remarking, " Go back, g|p away ; you cannot see him." Rev. Mr. JJCrcady motioned her to leave, and said, 'Vo away ; you have no right to see him, shall not see him." The woman maijji desperate effort to get to the coffin, serc-jing, "Ob, my God! I must see my husffiid. Stand aside, I will see him, in ,spite ofrbu ! I will see him!" Mrs. Smith, theiiitherof the deceased, ordered her to to lerjj, and Miss Smith, herdaughter shouted, Stay away; you ruined my brother, arj'ySCi cannot look at him." While the eldest confusion prevailed in the church the 1. was fastened to its place, and the frantic woirnjcrowded and shoved toward the pulpit. -The carriage of the divorced wife followedt the end of the cortege, and at the grtiai in the cemetery she made the most fetching appeals to those who superintentUihe rites to allow her just one glance at theaiSc of the man she had learned to love, but to -hotn it was claimed she had also been the occuon of much domestic infelicity. The saddestshapter of the mournful narrative remainsjfet to be related. The impressive ceremedes "had been rendered at the grave, the dffin had been lowered into the earth, the Imister had Jsaid, "Ashes to ashes and (\irt;to dust," while a spadeful of clods h& been dropped on the lid of the coffin. Th mends in their carriages had deserted the plcij nnd the grave-diggers had begun to fill in;ae earth, when the recreant wife ran and lot od in. The tears streamed down on the ru ;h box while she pleaded most those about to allow her to see the dead ini. This privilege was once more refused, si I, as the carriage which contained her was H ins; driven out of the cemetery, her cries -j re moat heartrending.