Samuel Theodore Paisley

PAISLEY'S BODY

IS AT HIS HOME.

ARRIVED LAST NIGHT OVER THE

BALTIMORE & OHIO, ACCOMPANIED

BY WIDOW AND SON.

FUNERAL WILL BE HELD

THIS AFTERNOON.

DR. PRUGH WILL OFFICIATE.

POSITIVE DENIAL ENTERED TO THE

STORY THAT MRS. PAISLEY GAVE

OUT ANY INTERVIEW.

SHE HAS ALMOST COLLAPSED.

The remains of the late Samuel T. Paisley arrived at the Baltimore and Ohio depot at 8:10 last night from Newport News, Va. Quite a number of people were at the station at the time but their curiosity was not satisfied as the remains were taken out of the car and hurriedly taken by way of the rear of the station to a hearse that was in waiting and driven away before the fact became known that the corpse had reached the city. In addition to the hearse there were two carriages in which the party who accompanied the remains entered and were driven to the Paisley residence, 6023 Walnut street, East End.

The officials at the depot were very reticent about giving any information regarding the conveying of the remains over the railroad or the names of the party who accompanied them from Newport News.

A rumor was current that the Sampson undertaking establishment was to cremate the body. A call was made at the undertaking rooms of the establishment on Sixth avenue and the officials denied the story. They said that as yet they had received no word from any person in regard to the remains and did not expect to. The clerk based his opinion on the fact that if the family intended to have the remains cremated, they would have been notified previous to the remains arriving in Pittsburg so they could have taken the body from the depot. He further stated that the establishment does not cremate on Sundays and that it requires considerable time to prepare the crematory.

The body was taken in charge by Undertaker T. B. Moreland and was immediately taken to the former residence of the deceased, 6023 Walnut street, East End. The party which accompanied the body to Pittsburg was composed of Mrs. S. T. Paisley, S. T. Paisley, Jr., and John Land, of Washington, a brother of Mrs. Paisley. They were met at the depot by Mrs. S. T. Paisley, Jr., and George M. Hosack, of the law firm of Murphy & Hosack, who have acted as attorneys for the decedent since the discovery of the shortages in the bureau of highways and sewers.

During the evening quite a number of friends of he dead man and the Paisley family called at the family residence to tender their condolences. Mrs. Paisley, Sr., was almost prostrated and could not be seen by anyone except her physician, who was awaiting her arrival at the home, and the members of her family.

The funeral services will be held at the Paisley home this afternoon at 4 o'clock. Rev. Dr. J. H. Prugh, of Grace Reformed church, will officiate. The body will be interred in the Allegheny cemetery later in the afternoon, none but the members of the family and the minister accompanying the remains there. At 10:30 o'clock last night S. T. Paisley, Jr., said he was unable to give a list of the pallbearers, as they had not as yet been selected

In speaking of the interviews with Mrs. Paisley published in the daily newspapers in which she is quoted as saying that he husband had been the victim of others higher in the government of the city of Pittsburg and that the real culprit was even now spending the evil gotten gain in Paris, she denied that there was a word of truth in it.

"My mother," he said, "has made no statements of any kind either for publication or otherwise. Her condition has been such since the death of my father that it would be impossible to do so and in addition she told me that she had neither seen any newspaper men nor told Mrs. Adams, at whose house my father died, a word about any of his troubles. We know absolutely nothing except what we have seen in the newspapers and I assure you that not a word of it is true. My mother is now and has been constantly under the care of a physician and her condition is such that even I could not talk to her upon the subject of the allegations made against my father."

Mr. Paisley was urge to make a statement, but refused absolutely to do so, and reiterated that under no circumstances could his mother be seen.