Since her coming to this city, she has
been a communicant of St. John's
Kpiscopal churcoh. Mrs. Wheeler
was chairman of the advisory board
of the Charity Organization society,
president of the Helpers; chairman
of the State Street House commit
tee of the Y. W. C. A., and member
of the finance committee of the or
ganization. She was a member of the
Rridenort Protective Atrenciattnn th.
I Wednesday Afternoon Musical club.
Ladies Charitable society, the Con
temporary club and a number of
other well known club and organiza
tions. Mrs. Wheeler leaves two children,
George Macy Wheeler, graduate this
year of Hotchkiss school. Lakeville,
who will enter Yale this fall, and Miss
Helen Lucy Wheeler, a senior at
Vassar College. Mrs. Wheeler had
been travelling through the Western
States in company of her husband
and children, and was taken ill when
they reached Seatle.
BANK MESSENGER
HOLD UP VICTIM
LOST $12,500
Boston.Aug. 25. Ray Scott Gurney,
a bank messenger employed by the
Fidelity Trust Co., was held up today
by four men who stole $12,000 which
he was taking to the bank from the
office of the Grocers' Baking Co. In
the Roxbury district.
Gurney was in a taxicab and had
Just driven through the gates at the
baking plant when four men climbed
aboard the machine. One of them
took his seat beside the chauffeur and
pressing a revolver to his head or
dered him to drive down the street
and make no outcry. The other three
entered the cab and forced Gurney to
hand over the money.
