The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1883-09-18 00:00:00

DISCOVERY Or ONE Or Tag BODIES.

On Suoday inorniug a fisherman, named John .
Hyatt, whilst in a boat in the We.t bay. discovered a
body &Boat. its brought it ashore. but although it
was so dialigured that ideutilication was imposeible, it
was thought probable, from the wristband of a shirt
on the arm—the only vestige of clothing on the body -
that it was one of the unfortunate seamen who jumped
overboard when the vesselstinck in the late gala Many
believed it to be the b aly of the man who wag 11 Atlas
about n the lite bug er so long • time.
Tah Ivllolll/
Was held on Monday at the Cove Inn, before Richard
Nichol.. Howard, Seq., ()Groner, and • jury, of whom
Mr. Henry Attsrooll was foreman. The following
evidence was taken :
John Hyatt stated: I am a fialierman at Portland,
and have le-ien for over 20 yenta. tin ,uuday, between
11 and 12. I was in • boat in the West iday, and saw
the body Sorting, which we brought hore. It is that
of • unto, and the same body the jury have seen. I
saw the bsrivie Cliriatiana go ashore on onuday, the
2nd inst., at the (jive, and two of the men were
drowoed. I cannot tell exactly, NM to the best of my
belief it is the same man who, when the vessel had
Imes stranded, lumped over the port quarber with a
life belt.
John Jeffery Drake: I am a medical practitioner at
Portland, and also medical officer to the Board of
Health. I saw the body on its befog brought &Aare
yesterday by the last witness, and made • Olulle exam-
ination of It. I saw no marks of any wounds, nor
any tattoo.; on the body. There were marks on the
body showing it had been in the water some days, but '
none showing that he came to his death other than
by drowsing, which, in my opinion, was the real cause
of death. From his appearance I should say that the
length of time the body had been la the water would
correspond with the time the Uhristiana had gone
ashore, via., the 2nd of Seotetniwr.
P.S. Walter : I saw the body when it was
brought ashore °I the h lust.. He had no clothing
on him, except the wristband of what had been •
shirt, and the colour of which correaponded with that
. of a shirt worh uy • man whojumped off the Christiana
, barque when she warn stranded on the 2nd September,
, and whom I saw struggliug amidst the breaker*, but
! who,
.notwithstandlug the eff nrtrn made, It was haws-
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Bibb; to save.
Hans liangenuu : I wee master of the Christians
barque at the time when rho strap led ou the Cove.
We were 10, ad told. Myself cud seven others were
saved, and two were lost. One of the seamen. named
John Olsen, whom I shipped lo Dtalialatal un the 10th
of Afloat, when the Yowl sti noir, jumper 1 overboard
to swim ashore, end was drowned. Another man also
jumps I overboard ant wee drowned. lied they
I remained on board ttsy c odd have been saved by
means of the ro,ket apparatus from the shore tree
same all myself ant the others. Toe body is so die.
figored that I can't identify it.
A verdict was returned that "Th. body was found
drowned, and from the evidence there was a strong
impression it wee the body of John Olean, who was
drowned by the stranding of the barque Christians,
but the evidence was not conclusive as to identifica-
tion."