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Show RECOVERS BODY : AFTER S SEARCH OF MANY YEARS J Mrs. Verona Pollock-Roach fj'; I Carries Out Dying- Request -JHB of Alexander L. Pollock, I Who Died in Salvador. ty'm WILL REST BESIDE 'M HIS CHILDREN HERE Victim of Yellow Fever in !jjjfl Far-OlT Foreign Land; Salt '11 Lake Editor Twenty vim Years Ago. .&JB -7 EUALLLXG probably the mo?t iylB t-J thrilling experiences that over '''IB JL V. "l' & contemporary American i 'fcH family of prominence, the, body , ;j. !fl of Alexander L. Pollock, .father of . . II (Jhuuning- Pollock, famou? dramatist ) ill and critic, is in Salt Luke and will bo II interred in Mount Olivet cemetery at ,'"rfB ;i o 'clock tomorrow afternoon. Mrs. , J.; ll Verona Pollock-Roach, mother of th 1 jl playwright, arrived yesterday after- fplB noon and is at-Ihc Hotel Utah. Alex- p IB ander L. Pollock, twenty years ago. il' IB was a Salt Lake newspaper editor and 11 "11 real estate man !"or ninotceu year3 .il his body lay in an unmarked grave. C l lost io the family. Mrs. Roach discov- Kt;"B crcd it through a man whoe life she SI saved. V l Dying Wish Granted. . ' f B It is to grant the dying request o . SI Mr. Pollock, who. as American consul ' I in Salvador, Ceutral America, during r. II tho Azcta revolution, fell a victim to j- I yellow fever, that Mrs. "Roach ha3 hnd 'Jj II the Uidy brought. hexa. "With 'bni a. '!f few moments to live, the consul begged " t that when hp was no more his body .I be taken to tho burying ground where tl his two young children. Lee I3erdan j 'ilB and Lillie Vilctt Pollock, lay in rhci'' il grave," The lot. is diamond shaped and ! IB near a waterfall. The din man said 't'iB he desired to be taken there, because 'ii'IB the cataract signified eternity. But t'IB the task of yetting tho coffin here ha 'fl been difficult. ; j l Alexander Tollock was a partner In ,j fl the real estate business In Salt Lake of : f I E. "W. "Wilson, now a San Franc! co 'iffl banker. .Mr. Pollock was editor of th 1' sfl old Salt Lake Times and subsequently '11 of the Herald. Effoits were made to 1 i'';lffl have him appointed an embassador, bin M" II Utah was a territory then and that l''fl formed the objection. So he was givon ,rSiiH the office of consul general and sent to ' 'jfl Central America. Mrs. Pollock, now , ,1 Mrs. Roach, and their two surviving chil- .H dren. Channlng and a daughter, now .Mis. V, H Robert Holmes of New York, went with i -;H him. Dies at His Post. i vl "The account that I could give of th .. revolution when ll wan at Its height.' -d. H siiid Mrs. Roach last night, ''would seem l-ti ;H Incredible. "We wero In constant dange- l'3fB of being scalped by the Indians in the L'f H revolution. In the midst of tho war the !'f'i-H children and 1 went to a coffee plantation " 'jji''! In the country. Mr. Pollock remained ih I at his office in the city of San Salvador. t H looking after the lntcrcata of American .jl v .1 stricken with the fever and involved In i ,! I the rovolullon. The epidemic overlook H him. He was stricken In his of.'ics, I B where he lay until the hist." '. H Mr.?. Roach panned and almost shud- ' H dcrcd as she strovo to remember the in- . H cldents In the order in which they oc- 1$ fl curred. She is scarcely past mlridlo age. jf ' H having been married when but IB. Shr j ' ,H did not have much difficulty with her ifl memory and spoke fluently and Impres- ',' sivcly. ( I 1 fl In Unknown Grave. Ml Continuing the narration of her ordca! fl at the time of her husband's death, Mrs. , r' M''H Roach said: a!;'' Ifl Whllo he was sick he telegraphed v:,H mo every twenty-four, hours for thre v H days, but that was the land of ma- ( :H nana (tomorrow) and thj ilittpntchcM ' 'IH wero laid aside, undelivered. In th! :H office of the plantation. Eventually, l? ':H I happenwl to walk In anil find thorn. ' . I hurried to his side. ''r-l'fl He was still In his ofrtcc when I :; ! arrived. I nursed him. Even as J hnVfl did, tho disease was In the courje ' IjfM'H of Incubation in my blood. 1 was In J .fH a. frightful condition mentally. When ; -11 he died and was placed in a box cof- . fin the Americana made a metal oov- r" f 1 erlng. The body had beon wrapped ;,fl In an American flag and placed In ' H the rccptucle- Although tho funeral . was elaborate, ho could not bc burled f ) ': WM walhln the comntery, in consecrated . . , ground, for ho was a Protestant, n v'iB Unitarian, and there was none but 'sl a Catholic graveyard. So they burled rVfr'H him ouUlde the ic.ncc. I was "there. ;' L but In no state of heulth or mind to h he practical. All I remembered 'il!vi' afterward whs that thu grave was Ifflfl'i near a tree alongside the Santa J 7j Tccla railroad. H 'j .Ji In a few dnya I was helpless with the Tover. Six times I had relapeos iftir'-l and my physician told mo frank' v il L-.hH that there wi no hone, li'it I iv,n tS'? ' (Continued on Pago Two.)t. POLLOCK FOUL TO BE HELP FRIDAY (Continued from Pago One.) determined to wot my children back home, and I did. 1 was still sick when I boarded tho steamer for Sari Francisco. Meanwhile tho newspapers on the coast published my obituary, roportlng that both Mr. Pollock and 1 were dead. Jlv mother In New Vork believed it. "When I arrived and she found out I was allvo the reaction was too great and she died. I was In Salt Laku only a (ew days on my return, hurrying cast lo my mother. I got there In time to see her body towered Into the grave. This is my first visit to Utah since. The body of Mr, Pollock preceded me here several duys, but just os I was pro-paring pro-paring to coma my daughter in New York, where we all live now, fell elck. 1 remained with her a week. She has recovered. Seeks Unmarked Grave. As soon as practicable after his death I mado efforts to carry out my husband's request. All sorts of difficulties diffi-culties wcro encountered. As he had died of a contagious disease the governor gov-ernor of Salvador Insisted that the corpse remain In tho ground fourteen years. Ho ' could not be convinced that It was in a metallic coffin. As I said. It wa5 placed In a wooden box lined with Iron afterward. Anyhow I wan compelled to wait. Nearly six vears wo had been ac-tlvcly ac-tlvcly engaged In our search for tho crravc. No records could bo found. The place was unmarked. About six months ago a man named Jeffries, whom T befriended during the revolution, revo-lution, was tho means by which wo discovered it. I do not remember his Christian name. ITo was an American Ameri-can and died a few months ago In San Francisco. Tells of Saving Life. Tt was with considerable difficulty that Mrs, Roach, because of her rcluctancy In talking about herself, was induced to lell any part of her personal history, but her tale of saving the life of Jeffries Jeff-ries was doublv hard to got. Induced at length to tell part of It. she said: He was a general in President Azota's army. They catmliL him and a largo numher of man and thoy were all condemnod to be shot, He was the only American In that crowd. Sly husband could do nothing to save him. but T saw an opportunity to do so. I look him Bomo clothes and ho slipped away undiscovered. I later hoard he reached San Francisco safely with $50,000,000. That may be exaggerated, but he wa3 In comfortable com-fortable circumstances, at . least, when he died. lie had attended Utr. Pollock's funeral fu-neral In San Salvador. Of course, the American consul thore had been assisting us. He asked every American Amer-ican and everybody else whom ho thought might know about tho grave. When Jeffries hanpencd to walk Into his office about six months ago, he, too. was questioned. Locates Lost Grave. "Yes. I know whero the grave Is," said he; "I have bought the ground and can walk right to it." He did. Thero Is no doubt now as to tho Identity of the caskot. But when the burial took placo there was a silver plate with Mr. Pollock's name on tho Iron lid. That was gone. A native had vory likely opened the grave and stolen It. Channlng PoMoolc was at first somewhat opposed to having tl "body exhumed, brought to Salt Lako and buried. Tho author of "Such a Llttlo Queen." "Tho Red "Widow" and numerous other theatrical theat-rical productions, Is an advocate of cremation. cre-mation. Nevertheless, when he found out how desirous his mother was to carry out the wiKhes of his father, he withdrew his objectioiif. Ho felt that In pleasu her would compensate him for a sacrifice affecting' his hellol's. Arrival Kept Secret. Tho casket axrived in San Francisco October IS. Permits from state health authorities had to be obtained, and It was not until the twenty-second of last month that It was placed on a tmln there for Salt Lake. 11 arrived here a-bout thirty hours afterward. Since then It has been at tho undertaking establishment establish-ment of Eber W. Hall, await Ins the arrival ar-rival of Mrs. Roach, who was delayed in New York by her daughter's Illness. The Rgv. F. M. Bennett, pastor of the Unitarian church, will offlclato with services serv-ices at tho gravo Friday afternoon. No clerical services were held In Salvador. It Is expected that those old frlcndH who knew Mr. Pollock Avlicn ho was part of Salt Lake's business and journalistic life will attend. It will b ono of thu most unique funerals over held In Utah. Notable Career. Air. Pollock was a native of Austria-Hungary- He began his newspaper career In Washington, D. C. Then ho was associated asso-ciated with Dr. George L. Miller In Omaha. Oma-ha. From there ho came to Snlt Lake. His wlfo Is tho daughter of John F. Larkin. Slix was born during the rlvll war three-fourths of a mile from Bunker 1IIII at Manassas, V.a. They had' been married fourteen years when Mr. Pollock died In Salvador. Five years later she married United Stales Sonator W. N. Roach of North Dakota, whoso body lies In the Congressional Congres-sional cemetery in Washington. D. C He died threo years aftor tho second inar-rhiso inar-rhiso of Mr. Pollock's widow. John Pollock, Pol-lock, another fon of Mrs. Roach. Is an associate manager of Martin Bock of the Orphcuin circuit. Ho was in Salt Lake la-st winter. Mr. Pollock was appointed j consul by President Grover Cleveland In the second term of I hat executive. Mro. Roach will remain at the Utah several days to receive old friends before returning return-ing to New York. |