Frenzied with grief and excitement over the death of her mother, Mrs. Victoria Collins, 1824 McHenry Street, last night drove her relatives a a number of friends from the house in which the body lay and then destroyed a large mirror in the room. She took one of the large candelabra apart, almost drew her mother's body off the catafalaque and created a general havac in the room before she was finally stopped by the police and taken to the Southwester Police Station.
Her mother was Mrs. Catherine Christie, and she died early yesterday morning of pneumonia. The body was embalmed and placed in the front room of the house by Undertaker William J. Nugent and the arrangements for the funeral had practically been completed.
Mrs. Collins' brother, Joseph Christie, it is said, had gone to the office of the agent who had insured his mother's life, leaving his wife, Annie , and her brother, William Dahl in charge, who were chased from the house by Mrs. Collins. The dead woman is said to have been about 49 years old.
Source: The Sun (Baltimore, MD) March 3, 1904
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Her mother was Mrs. Catherine Christie, and she died early yesterday morning of pneumonia. The body was embalmed and placed in the front room of the house by Undertaker William J. Nugent and the arrangements for the funeral had practically been completed.
Mrs. Collins' brother, Joseph Christie, it is said, had gone to the office of the agent who had insured his mother's life, leaving his wife, Annie , and her brother, William Dahl in charge, who were chased from the house by Mrs. Collins. The dead woman is said to have been about 49 years old.
Source: The Sun (Baltimore, MD) March 3, 1904
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Frenzied with grief and excitement over the death of her mother, Mrs. Victoria Collins, 1824 McHenry Street, last night drove her relatives a a number of friends from the house in which the body lay and then destroyed a large mirror in the room. She took one of the large candelabra apart, almost drew her mother's body off the catafalaque and created a general havac in the room before she was finally stopped by the police and taken to the Southwester Police Station.
Her mother was Mrs. Catherine Christie, and she died early yesterday morning of pneumonia. The body was embalmed and placed in the front room of the house by Undertaker William J. Nugent and the arrangements for the funeral had practically been completed.
Mrs. Collins' brother, Joseph Christie, it is said, had gone to the office of the agent who had insured his mother's life, leaving his wife, Annie , and her brother, William Dahl in charge, who were chased from the house by Mrs. Collins. The dead woman is said to have been about 49 years old.
Source: The Sun (Baltimore, MD) March 3, 1904
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Her mother was Mrs. Catherine Christie, and she died early yesterday morning of pneumonia. The body was embalmed and placed in the front room of the house by Undertaker William J. Nugent and the arrangements for the funeral had practically been completed.
Mrs. Collins' brother, Joseph Christie, it is said, had gone to the office of the agent who had insured his mother's life, leaving his wife, Annie , and her brother, William Dahl in charge, who were chased from the house by Mrs. Collins. The dead woman is said to have been about 49 years old.
Source: The Sun (Baltimore, MD) March 3, 1904
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