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Show CBAWFORDCLMB Tflfl HiS WOMJILL IEi I Famous American Novelist W Bnsy When the Sum- wi mons Came. Jf SOKRENTO, Italy, April 10.-Th neral of F. Marion Crawford, tho An H ican novelist, who died hero ycatcr't c) will not be held until Monday. -j 3,rc, church docs not permit tho eclebra' W of the funeral mass during holy w aiU The services, which will bo prr ' and very simple, win )Ct hf,w .joo. 1 Capuchin church, to which Mr. ciPfioi ford made generous contributions. Kcr Crawford, who was deeply religious, eeived all the comforts of religion Wiv ing his last days. The hotly willffij placed temporarily in tho chapel of& little .cemetery of Sant Angollo tffcl on the will has been examined and it nW' learned whether Mr. Crawford f Ui pressed in it any wishes regarding! , last resting jdace. f re' A delegation from the municipal1 of Sorrento, headed by tho mayor W"vcrf today to Sant AngcHo to beg fork150' honor ol. having Mr. Crawford's "rr: i 4;,t ,horrf,"lo-t JIr- Crawford ropfe I that although she aprociated tho h t0V highly, it her husbnnd's bodv reniijfcfr0" in Thily it must lie at Sant AnOfcfl th whero he worked and lived. The. nuHj" of Sant Angollo hns issued a nmniffc" 1 inviting tho people to follow tho hcTciny of tho "illustrious and honorary-Jit it zen who immortalized the beauticAofa Italy in his works." JEi bef Mr. Crawford's physician said tftb that his pauent had died of sudMit t cardiac paralysis, following oxtrj3 n weakness resulting from pleurisy 4iihip suffered greatly from" asthma, tt aH i seemed to find relief in oxygen. Utiu-c-tv the last moment Mr. Crawford waalvc to put his papers in order, and alhtTfllK his last act was to road tho maaiiscLi snd ot an unfinished romance, "Tho Wt ai Sivter," to a member of his fanfjkei He leaves forty completed works, andf nn had gathered together material for? "i a masterpiece, an exhaustive acconnr ,i the. mediaeval communes of Italy, z.T volumes of which have been coniplof ' i&re I |