AT THE GRAVE.
Photograph of a Corpse Taken at the Last Moment.
NEW YORK, Dec. 1. - What, with its original ghastly details, gave a strangely weird and uncanny look to the circumstances attending a recent interment in Greenwood cemetery, upon investigation turns out to be nothing very extraordinary, although savoring a little of the ghastly. On October 3, last, the body of Charles C. Badeau was interred in Greenwood. Previous to interment a photographer took a picture of the corpse in the casket, which had been placed in a nearly upright position, leaning against a monument.
Mr. E.C. Darling, the undertaker, living at Smithtown, L.I., where young Badeau died, when asked how this photographing at the grave happened to occur, said: "This young man persistently refused to have his picture taken, and so there was no photograph of him when he died. There is no photographer in Smithtown, and so, at his mother's request, I telegraphed for a photographer to meet me at the grave, and he did so, and a picture was taken, and that is all there is in the story."
The casket, as the original story ran, was taken out of the hearse and laid by the side of an open grave. Then the lid was removed, the corpse lifted out, and having been placed on its feet and stood bolt-upright against a monument, a photograph was taken of it.
The Arizona Republican; he (Phoenix, Arizona.
December 2, 1891; Page One.
Photograph of a Corpse Taken at the Last Moment.
NEW YORK, Dec. 1. - What, with its original ghastly details, gave a strangely weird and uncanny look to the circumstances attending a recent interment in Greenwood cemetery, upon investigation turns out to be nothing very extraordinary, although savoring a little of the ghastly. On October 3, last, the body of Charles C. Badeau was interred in Greenwood. Previous to interment a photographer took a picture of the corpse in the casket, which had been placed in a nearly upright position, leaning against a monument.
Mr. E.C. Darling, the undertaker, living at Smithtown, L.I., where young Badeau died, when asked how this photographing at the grave happened to occur, said: "This young man persistently refused to have his picture taken, and so there was no photograph of him when he died. There is no photographer in Smithtown, and so, at his mother's request, I telegraphed for a photographer to meet me at the grave, and he did so, and a picture was taken, and that is all there is in the story."
The casket, as the original story ran, was taken out of the hearse and laid by the side of an open grave. Then the lid was removed, the corpse lifted out, and having been placed on its feet and stood bolt-upright against a monument, a photograph was taken of it.
The Arizona Republican; he (Phoenix, Arizona.
December 2, 1891; Page One.
AT THE GRAVE.
Photograph of a Corpse Taken at the Last Moment.
NEW YORK, Dec. 1. - What, with its original ghastly details, gave a strangely weird and uncanny look to the circumstances attending a recent interment in Greenwood cemetery, upon investigation turns out to be nothing very extraordinary, although savoring a little of the ghastly. On October 3, last, the body of Charles C. Badeau was interred in Greenwood. Previous to interment a photographer took a picture of the corpse in the casket, which had been placed in a nearly upright position, leaning against a monument.
Mr. E.C. Darling, the undertaker, living at Smithtown, L.I., where young Badeau died, when asked how this photographing at the grave happened to occur, said: "This young man persistently refused to have his picture taken, and so there was no photograph of him when he died. There is no photographer in Smithtown, and so, at his mother's request, I telegraphed for a photographer to meet me at the grave, and he did so, and a picture was taken, and that is all there is in the story."
The casket, as the original story ran, was taken out of the hearse and laid by the side of an open grave. Then the lid was removed, the corpse lifted out, and having been placed on its feet and stood bolt-upright against a monument, a photograph was taken of it.
The Arizona Republican; he (Phoenix, Arizona.
December 2, 1891; Page One.
Photograph of a Corpse Taken at the Last Moment.
NEW YORK, Dec. 1. - What, with its original ghastly details, gave a strangely weird and uncanny look to the circumstances attending a recent interment in Greenwood cemetery, upon investigation turns out to be nothing very extraordinary, although savoring a little of the ghastly. On October 3, last, the body of Charles C. Badeau was interred in Greenwood. Previous to interment a photographer took a picture of the corpse in the casket, which had been placed in a nearly upright position, leaning against a monument.
Mr. E.C. Darling, the undertaker, living at Smithtown, L.I., where young Badeau died, when asked how this photographing at the grave happened to occur, said: "This young man persistently refused to have his picture taken, and so there was no photograph of him when he died. There is no photographer in Smithtown, and so, at his mother's request, I telegraphed for a photographer to meet me at the grave, and he did so, and a picture was taken, and that is all there is in the story."
The casket, as the original story ran, was taken out of the hearse and laid by the side of an open grave. Then the lid was removed, the corpse lifted out, and having been placed on its feet and stood bolt-upright against a monument, a photograph was taken of it.
The Arizona Republican; he (Phoenix, Arizona.
December 2, 1891; Page One.
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