SINGULAR PROCEEDINGS AT A FUNERAL.
Yesterday afternoon Great King street was the scene of a very unusual occurrence in connection with a funeral. Pursuant to notice, made through the columns of the Star, the friends of a man named James Hayes, who died at the Hospital, met at that institution at 2.30 p.m. to follow his remains to the place of interment in the Northern Cemetery. The funeral, which was conducted under the auspices of Lodge British Hearts of Oak, 1.0. G.T., to which the deceased belonged, proceeded as far as the Northern District School, when a number of men, who had followed the hearse on foot, fell out from the ranks, and marched in a body to the head of the horses drawing the hearse. Seme conversation ensued between them and the driver (Mr Lewis), the result of which was that the latter turned the horses into Union street. We are told that the Good Templars, fearing that an unseemly disturbance might take place if they proceeded with their intention to bury the body in the Northern Cemetery, retired; and that those who remained prevailed on Mr Lewis to drive it to the Southern Cemetery, where it was interred shortly before six o'clock, a priest being present. The officers of the Lodge assert that before they took any steps to inter their deceased brother, wh > while an inmate of the Hospital had been on their sick list and drew from their funds, they waited on the Catholic clergy and inquired if the latter would supply them with a piece of ground in the Catholic portion of the Southern Cemetery in whieh to bury him ; but a negative reply was given, the reason for the refusal being, as we are informed, that on a previous occasion a piece of ground had been given the deceased to bury a child in, for which he had never paid. It was to save Hayes' receiving pauper burial that the lodge took the action it did. Those are the simple facts as related to us by a person on whose reliability we have confidence.
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Evening Star, Issue 4229, 14 September 1876, Page 3
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350SINGULAR PROCEEDINGS AT A FUNERAL. Evening Star, Issue 4229, 14 September 1876, Page 3
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