The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-01-18 00:00:00

OVERBOARD.

A CAPTAIN DROWNED BY PALLING

Ao inroad ass held at the Council Chacaiar on Monday.
boore Mr. G. B. Aldridge, Borough Cironor, wit' Mr. J.
P. Go I wur, foreman of the jury, on the bridy of Henry
Evans. captain of a maid lying On the Wait Shore.
Richord W 1114401. able seaman, said the ritioek, of
which the deceeeed wee captain, was railed the Prances,
and bailed from Carnarvon, North Wale', loaded with
slates for Hay and Haaell. Their crew wail only three.
The vowel *al lying off the Wait /Joey. They arrived
lost Tueeday. He net saw the deceltoed alive ohout
goorter to 'Lab% ou Saturday night, at the King's Head.
He came out with him and another Welsh capt on. The
deceased was in sober aa could be then, and he I-ft them
at the doe. He could not tell what time he himself went
on board. It was about midnight or one o'clock, but he
did not nee anything of the captain. During the oight,
revolt 91) minutes alter he had been below, he beard a
voice on &CY. He went up, and saw •inin in the water
crying out for help; be wag hallooing "Oh, don't at we
be dlowned, don't :et inc be drowned." He threw a rope
t him, and he got ho .3 01 it. En was (late certain he
did the. He tried to pull him up, but he kept Blipping
down the rone, and h- could not inane,' to got held of
him. He threw everything over that he could, inciatiny
the gangway. D 0 sod got .11 of it, but kftior raids cave
it up and went bock ward, out of his sight. He then rui
to. West schooner, lying near the bridge, and woke them
up. It war, be believed, the neared lying to him. They
turned out, and than th-y went together round the
town and fond • policeman, awl returned on hoard They
road see the body of the captain floating in the water.
The upper part of the roil of the vestal woe .boot sis teat
shove the water, so he e.oold not reach him by the hand.
When the sce,dent occurred be (waiwee) we. SA sober se a
judge, but bad had tailor three SlaSeeeduring the evening.
With the oasis.anee of the police the body was taken out
of he weer.

By th. Foreman : The third man was nut on beard, but
wa 'fl thr nr. . . . . .

William lean.. eteplen of oie doesreed, who cried very
much during tb to wind, sail ileteesed wee not a Dotter
mar. tie wee 42 retire of etre. He sailed from Cernarvon
on the Wiz of December last.
P.C. John Hoch., veil at" 2 50 on Sunday nrrning he
en.iin ditty over te Avtel •riii and ea. the wittiest
Wiliinme with the • other ...men. They told liirn there
We. a msn overb.aid round the Shore. He took a long
ho.it hook from the Iletlvoirmaeter'e nine. and Arcola.
panted them to the piece. Ile went on hoard the smack,
end leaned over the lutwerks, and I.y his light sew the
body of. man flyiting He honked him by his anerneey
and ant him on bosrd. His tronisers were down to his
knee., and he had no doubt he bad fallen over the lid..
We boots and and hat were In the cable, and hie bed
appeared as if someone had Piet gee out of it. H. was
quit deal. He Tenoned the case at the etation. and Dr.
Veneele we. culled in, sled having in-petted the body, it
we. removed to the deid-bouse. There week 241. on the
body. . .

By the Fdr•man: The ,stamen who called him *P.
pe•reel ocher hut etcach elartneel.
Williams recalled •sid he shoeld think the dees.ed
must helm been in the water before the police arrived
shout half-an-hour.

A juryman &eked how it was eben be bad procurvd the
beln of the mimeo he did 114 at once try to get bun out
with tern instead of looking fora policeman t
Wien.. maid 'ha inan's life rmc gone before he left him.
PC. Rnhert Leo .aid he.. Williams &Malt One 0%.1,,,k
on S unlit), morning in Towngate-itreet. 11.9 we. reeling
and mock ti. worge for liquor. He had no hat and his
coat wait very dirty. Al tie could n.t with without
aatibtance he to kk him on hoard his verge!.
. . .......

The Clroner exgreued hie opinion that Williams was ia
surh a h-iplus state of drunkenness at the time that he
wu unable to help the man, and to that be t• 1 probably
Inst his life. . .

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The jury agreed with thia and found verdict that the
deceased met his death by "Accidental Drowning.'