Show A WOMANS c nie WILL her body was a ihen for fifteen rif teen daye arter death there is an at jdant at the odd fellows cemetery whose duty it is to ente antei a vault there at brief intervals and look into the face of the dead he has been doing this for several days and nights fighte and his vigil will continue till fifteen lays days have come and gone he is performing the work in obedience to in a av asli expressed in the will of tho the late mrs airs augustine berichon Pe richon a frenchwoman who died in this city recently mrs pc richon entertained a fear that it would bo be her lot to be buried alive how she came to dread this is told it ir the story of her life she was born bom in orleans france iii if 1826 in 1848 when she was but twell ty two years of age 1 she came to thu thit country and soon thereafter was mar ried in new yolk city from earl earil childhood she loved to read tales tal es of romance and fiction but nothing no thin had bad a greater fascination fasci natio n for her than a stor stora of some poor unfortunate whose fate it was to be buried while in a trance 11 ia said that she accumulated the printed announcements announcement of all the most horribly ari bac incidents of this kind that have been re corded during the last half century ce IL 1854 she crossed the continent to sat sar francises francisc br two 7 ye years after her arrival here sino obtained bained t a divorce from her husband but soon married again her husband died did in 1858 1838 besides ii abey fe t personal effects she has left money aud and i jewelry JP to the value of nearly goby gO fy but she has no relative either in amer ev or france to inherit from her although alt houg during the last few years of her life spent much time and money in trying to trace eouse coin one descended from eithel her father or her mothers line she directed in her will that after the doctors pronounced her dead her bode should be placed in a coffin and then in ill the it of the odd fellows aeme cemetery tery the lid of the coffin be so ar 1 ranged that her face could be seen ano and fomo one should be paid liberally tr to visit the vault and look upon it at brief bri ea intervals this was to be ke fiuren lays days during which time tiona were to be made to place the body in its last resting place in the same cemp I 1 tery some Som years eyears ago mrs airs berichon Pe richon pur chased a plot iu in that cemetery and he hc will directs that a vault be built in it s equitable eui u table for the reception of three bod ies les her ber own and those of two friends frien lb the exact dimensions of this grave are arc given and an iron framework is to IP placed at the bottom upon which by side ride the three coffins are to rest batides this directions are given in regard regard to the headstones and the epitaphs the shall bear as well as minute details ol of matters of less importance of the two friends who are to sharf thu tho grave with the remains of airs peri ebon chon one is still livings living nobue seems to know why these two of the many formed the circle of cf friends of the de ceased should be singled out and if mrs Peri Pe richon elion were living her frie friends rids sa sho would declare it to be no n 0 ones Es busi ness but her own the two are J bonde a frenchman who died about EVO eve ye years ITS ago and whose body now lies in the odd fellows cemetery and william weiss manna mann a german the latter is seventy years of ago age and is an inmate of the soi sol tiers liers homo home at santa monica he ila hay been notified of the provisions in tir th will of his old friend san Sarf Franci Francisci examiner |