Obituary: Andrew Cullinan of Montreal, QuebecPaid Their Last Tribute
Obsequies of Former
Chief Detective of Montreal
Large was the number of those who paid their last tribute of respect to the memory of
Mr. Andrew Cullinan yesterday morning by attending his obsequies. the cortege which was headed by a squad of
fifty police under the command of Captain Fennell and Lieutenant Murphy of the family residence, 68 Colborne Street
at 8.30 proceeded to Saint Ann Church where a Mass of solemn requiem was sung and thence to Côte-des-Neiges.
At the church the remains were received by Rev. Father Rioux and Rev. Father Cullinan, son of the deceased, was
the celebrant of the Mass, with Reverend Father Shea of Saint Anthony's Church as Deacon and Reverend Father
Bourassa of Saint Bernard Church as Sub-Deacon. Among the clergy who occupied seats of the sanctuary were Rev.
Father Kiernan of Saint Michael's Parish, Rev. Father Faudrouge of Lachine and Rev. Fathers McPhail and O'Flynn of
Saint Ann's Parish, Rev. Father Donnelly, Saint Anthony's Parish, Rev. Father Killoran, Saint Patrick's Parish,
Rev. Father Freedy, Rev. Father McDonald, Rev. Father Prudent, director of the Christian Brothers. While the
Libera was chanted left the clegy left the sanctuary and stood around the catafalque which was brilliantly lighted
with candles and while the remains were being born from the Church, "Nearer My God To Thee" was sung.
The chief
mourners were Rev. Father Cullinan, Messrs. W.P., P.J. and J.J. Cullinan, sons, J. Shea and Charles McKinley,
sons-in-law, M. Bermingham and P.J. Ryan. Of all those who followed the remains were Judge Lafontaine, Police
Kehoe, Inspectors Leggett and Lamouche, Chief Detectives of the Silis, Detectives O'Keefe, McLaughlin and
Gallagher, Riopel, Samson and Leger, Lt. Col. J.J. Barry, Alderman, D. Kelly, M.P., Messrs. C.A. McDonnell, T.J.
Finn, Thomas Thomson, P. Kelly, Bernard Tansey, Michael O'Connell, F. O'Keefe, J. Boyle, J. Kelly, Patrick Carroll,
F.C. Lyton, Thomas McGrath, Frank Gechan, John P. Heffernan, Joseph A. Heffernan, James Rogers, P. Jones, William
Howlett, Francis Connelly, N. Dineen, M.J. Ryan, J. Shea, James McCarthy, F.J. McKenna, E. Cunning, H.R. Ibbotson,
T.P. McCracken, John Crowe, J.T. Crowe, Alderman Thomas Conroy, H. McLaughlin, John Gallagher, J. Johnston, Captain
Beattie, Michael Griffin, James Barry, W. Powell, P. Martin, H. Twomey, James Murphy, J. Harnett, Bernard
O'Reilly, J. Curran, J.D. Altimas, Ex-Detective J. Robinson, Michael Delahanty, M. O'Shaughnessy, Andrew Finn,
Lieutenant Trempe, L. Harris, Arthur Jones, Thome, J. O'Connor, D.V. Lynch, J.S. Shea (Lachine), John Murray, John
O'Connell, H.A. Mooney, Emmett Quinn, Patrick Ryan, Patrick Ryan, John Ryan, H. Brady, J.M. McMahon, Alex Mur,
William O'Connor, Ward, Michael Clark, Michael Scanlan, John Ahern, James McGrath, M. Lemieux, William Harper, T.
Butler, J. Killoran, J. Flood, John Kane, Joseph Hammond, W. Bowles, E. Samson, P. Flannery, A. McGrath, P.
Vincent, O. Leger, A.J. O'Neill, Edward Scott, James Williams, P. Begnem, Edward Power, N.W. Power, Charles
O'Brien, Detectives Riopelle Demers, O'Keefe, GiguŠre, Barrett, C.J. Gervais, E. Leboeuf, Lebuquet, Gallegher, J.
Slattery, Thomas Moore, S. Doherty, Captain Doherty, Lalonde, Alderman Walsh, Alderman Dagenais.