Show PRIEST lIT AT liliAn IS LAID T AT R ST EHL S MONI I fr Franciscan n Order Pays Lost Tribute TO father Leo Heinrich Vast Crowd A in storm to Honor Prel te y 1 t r X J J. March 2 With With i iJ J more ore than forty fort priests monks and Jay lay I brothers a solemn j mass the tho last rite rites wore std said today toda over I the body bod- of Father Leo Heinrich the priest ri st who was vas m murdered b while 1 adminis administering the sacrament at St. St Elizabeths Elizabeth's 1 church in Denver DeD Col by Guiseppo Alio Mio the anarchist Tho services took place at nt the St St. Bonaventura monastery and were eon conducted bv by tho Franciscan monks The mass was sung sung by tho the Rev fic Father Edward Bishop John Jobu J. J OConnor O'Connor of the Newark c ark diocese and many m other dignitaries d of the Roman Catholic olie church were present Tho The funeral services were er simple but most affecting Thousands IhO s of persons unable to obtain admission to the tho monastery rr stood outside tho buil building in in the tiny tiny- ing sleet to do llo honor to the time dead priest Father L o was until last September in ill inthe iii the Newark Non diocese He lie was wag sent west at that timo time because of failing health only to bo be struck down by a tt foul ouI as aS- S. S sassin Ten t thousand persons ler on yesterday ester a looked upon the till taco lace of the tho Rev I Father ather Leo 0 O. E. E M. M at nt St. St B na monastery hi iu in which tho mur murdered priest was for years a pastor The bod body Jay lav in in state from rom noon until 11 ii 0 o'clock dock last night and during these hours i an n. n unbroken procession sion of ot mourners mourners mourners mourn mourn- ers ers p passed paned the tho bier So great I was tho the throng that a n detail o of fifty policemen was required to main main- I taip taiji tho the formations of t two o lines that extended for blocks block Through a succession sue sue- cession of snow sleet elect and rain min storms outside the parishioners stood for hours patiently waiting their turn There was no unto untoward ard demonstration Because Be cause of failing health Father Leo was as transferred last September to Den Den- ver At noon the body was borne into the church proper from the rectory where it ft t had reposed since tho the arrival here hero of tho ho funeral party Saturday morning The casket was placed upon a Ii raised catafalque directly in front of tho the main altar and was surrounded b by a guard suard of honor lonor t The body body- r rested in a white hite satin satin- lined ined ca casket with silver trimmings The martyr martyred d priest wore ore the plain brown garb of f his order the feet being in in in- closed in sandals while hile about the neck was a a purple and gold old stole It n had been given iven out that the thc body boch would not be brou brought ht into the church until 2 o'clock in in tho the afternoon and duning dun dur- in ing ng the first two hours the number pf persons who wh passed about the bier was not as great as might have hae been expected ex ox- b ing composed entirely of the them m members of St. St Bonaventura par parish pariah h. h But at at- 2 o'clock the people came in droves droes from all sections of the city and surrounding sur sun rounding to towns ns and streets on the thc intersection in in- of which the the monastery stands were soon choked with a struggling struggling gling mass of humanity A All creeds and nationalities were represented represented rep rep- resented in ni the thron throng which sought ought for admission to thc but bat impressed with the tho solemnity of th the occasion n all nIl were cre orderly thou though b the thc act of the assassin assassin as as- sassin asin was vigorously i condemned on all aU i sides and anarchy it itself elf bitterly de Je- Je le I |