Fredericka (Bherns) Warriner
Utica Saturday Globe, November 1911
Fredericka W. (Bherns) Warriner
1868 - 1911
Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]: After an illness of several years Fredericka W., wife of Ralph T. Warriner, died at her home on Grove avenue on Sunday last, aged 43. Funeral services were held from her late home on Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock and the remains were taken to Hamilton [Madison Co., NY] on Thursday morning for interment. Mrs. Warriner was born in Germany, March 7, 1868, and at the age of nine came to America. For a number of years she resided at Springville, Eric county. On June 9, 1891, she married Ralph T. Warriner, of Norwich, and since that time her home had been in this place. She was a member of the German Lutheran church, and a woman held in high esteem by her friends and acquaintances. Besides her husband, deceased is survived by five daughters, Florence, Clara, Hazel, Mary and Ruth, all of Norwich; by her mother, Mrs. Mary Bherns, of Springville, N.Y., by six sisters, Mrs. Frank Peabody, of Glendora, Cal., Mrs. Charles Peabody, of West Valley, N.Y., Mrs. Ashley Fronhister and Mrs. George Burr, of Springville, N.Y., Mrs. Edward Kumph, of Buffalo and Mrs. D.L. Hilliard, of Norwich, by one brother, Herman Bherns, of Springville, N.Y. [Glen Buell Collection, Guernsey Memorial Library, Norwich, NY]
Alfarata (Cole) Lutz
Utica Saturday Globe, November 1911
Alfarata (Cole) Lutz
1890 - 1911
Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]: There is a mystery enveloping the death in Chicago of Mrs. Alfarata Lutz, a former Norwich girl, that relatives and friends here are anxious to have unraveled. Mrs. Lutz was found dead in her room at 307 South Leavitt street on Friday afternoon. She was seated at a table with a gas tube in her mouth. Apparently it was a case of suicide and was given out as such by a student friend, Salvatore Manaco, who had been on intimate terms with the dead girl, visiting her frequently during the last six weeks. The Chicago authorities believed the young man's story and after an inquest, a certificate was issued that death was due to escaping gas. The body was embalmed and shipped to Norwich for burial.
Norwich relatives were not satisfied that the cause and circumstances of the death were clear and demanded an investigation. As soon as he learned of this, the girl's companion, Salvatore Manaco, disappeared from Chicago. He did not show up at his classes at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, where he is a senior, and at his home and the drug store of his father, Dr. Pasquale Manaco, where the youth put in his spare time as clerk, nothing was known of his whereabouts. Young Manaco found the body. He says he carried it to a window, which he opened and called for help. Neighbors who assert that the window of the girl's room was open at the time she is said to have asphyxiated herself wired to the family at Norwich urging a post mortem examination upon the arrival of the remains here. An autopsy was held at an undertaking room on Tuesday evening at which Coroner Wilcox was assisted by Drs. Harris and Fernalid. The body had been so thoroughly embalmed that it was impossible to definitely determine the cause of death. The organs were retained for more careful examination and chemical analysis.
A note evidently penned by the girl just before life departed read: "Dearie--received your letter, but it was too late." A faintly written line below read: "Ollie is dead." "Ollie" was Manaco's pet name for the dead girl. Her note referred to a lovelorn letter he wrote her following a quarrel in which she threatened to leave him and go to work. Despondency following this quarrel is claimed by the young man's friends to be the cause of her taking her own life. Manaco, his friends say, was in love with the girl and intended to marry her as soon as he had finished his course in college. His actions since her death had all been taken upon the advice of his father's attorney, to whom he turned in his trouble. The attorney alleges that women in South Leavitt street are to blame for suspicions aroused in the case. One of them telephoned to Monaco and demanded that he pay for an expensive coffin and other accessories for the funeral and the boy informed her that he was willing to do anything that was right. he had practically no money, his only income being an allowance from his father, who is far from wealthy. The woman declared that unless Monaco did as she told him she would stir up a scandal through the newspapers.
"Songbird" was the name by which the dead girl was known to some of her neighbors who looked upon her as Manaco's bride and almost envied her apparent contentment and happiness. Said one of these: "She was so happy that we called her 'Songbird.' I do not know whether she died from gas or something else. There were no clothes to cover her when she was taken to the morgue and if some of us had not taken the matter in hand the body would not have been decently clad for shipment. The undertaker furnished the undergarments and some of us made a dress for the poor child."
Mrs. Lutz, or Alfarata Cole as she was better known in Norwich, was only 21 years old. She was the daughter of a widowed mother, Mrs. James Cole, of this place. Her father died several years ago. Two brothers, Ervin and Perry, and a married sister, Mrs. Mary Wall, also reside here. A third brother, Charles E., lives in South Carolina. Alfarata Cole spent her girlhood in the Norwich schools and grew to young woman hood. Though small in stature, nature had fashioned her with attractive face and figure. She was always a cheery and vivacious girl. On May 30, 1909, she was married to John Lutz by Justice Fred L. Mallory. She left Norwich the week following last Christmas and had since lived in Chicago. Her husband was not in Chicago at the time of her death and as near as can be learned had not been there for some time. At present he is on the U.S.S. Wisconsin with the fleet now mobilized on the Hudson river. Mrs. Lutz had no relatives in Chicago. Since going there she had been employed in the Marshall Fields department store. In her last letter to her mother, dated October 15, 1911, she told where she was working and from the tone of her letter seemed to be in a happy and care free frame of mind.
The remains arrived in Norwich on Monday evening and were taken to an undertaking parlor, where an autopsy was held Tuesday evening. The funeral was held from the home of her brother, Ervin Cole, at Wood's Corners, on Wednesday afternoon. Rev. Paul Riley Allen officiated, the deceased having been an attendant of the Congregational Sunday school and a member of that church. Burial was made in Mount Hope Cemetery [Norwich, NY].
[Glen Buell Collection, Guernsey Memorial Library, Norwich, NY]
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