Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-24
The nriasing Yachtsmen.

| The Identification of One of the sargents A Sunken Yacht Discovered -N News Received Last Night of the E'Oa1tive Identification Of the Remains of Young | HawkIng-Latest from the New Haven | Searching Party-On Receipt Of News They Abandon the Senrch-The Shore PatrOlIed= by Them from Old -R1ead Point to Plumb Island.
 | Yesterday morning several friends of the Sargent party who. were on board the ill.,
 fated yacht Mystery that left this harbor Fri
 day, August 10, went to West Falmouth,
 Mass, where the bodies were reported found 1 and identified one of them as probably
 being that of Rupert Sargent. These friends | were Thurlow Weed Barnes, of Albany; Ru- l pert Coffin. of Nantucket, and Mrs. Glenn, | of New York. They examined with great
 care everything connected with the body 1 washed ashore and telegraphed the immedi- ate relatives of the deceased that they felt positive as to the identity of the body. A
 dispatch received from New Bedford yester-
 day morning stated that sunken yacht had
 been discovered three-fourths of mile north
 east of the Hen and Chickens near the en- trance to Buzzard's Bay. It is supposed that
 the yacht was the Mystery of New Haven.
 private dispatch was received during the 1 day to the effect that one of the bodies had been partly identified as that of Leicester Sargent. When it washed ashore 1t had 1 nothing on except life preserver marked | ''C. H. Northan. :" The identification, how I ever, was not complete enough to be entirely | satisfactory. The Identification of the other ! body seems to be complete and u12mistakable. l Mrs. Leicester Sargent, who went with her father, MT. Glenn, of Cincinnati, to Boston, ! and thence to Wareham, Mass, telegraphs I that she has seen the shirt taken from the I body that was washed ashore at West Fal- { mouth, and is convinced that it is the one worn by Rupert Sargent.
 | It seems that the Mystery was heavy bal lasted, circumstance which with her large open cockpit made her unfitted to ride through any gale. The generally accepted theory is that the yacht was overtaken by \ storm and became manageable, and when the young men saw that she was filling they jumped overheard and attempted to reach the land It is stated that the crew of the Ferguson, of the New Haven Yacht club, saw ] yacht flying the New Haven club signal in Vineyard Sound, off Robinson Hole, on Mon day afternoon about o'clock. This yacht resembled the Mystery in several points. If { it was the Mystery she must have outllved the northeast storm of the 10th, 11th and 18th, and gone down in the many high seas or encountered some serious local disturb ance. News from the searching party that went out early Thursday morning from the New Haven Yacht club was received during the af- \ terncon. The steamer reached Long Island at Wading River at 6:3O d. m The first \ boat went ashore at 6:5O. Proceeding east I ward, boats were left with two men in each | boat every two miles patrolling the beach \ thoroughly. At 2 o'clock they arrived at | Inlet Point, thirty miles from the starting point. They found nothing pertaining to | the missing Mystery. \ The vouncr noen on hoard the Mvsterv were Leicester Sargent of this city, 26 years of age | and an employe in the office of Sargent & Co. ! in this city; Rupert Sargent, 20 years of age, \ son of George H. Sargent of New York, and \ an attache of the office of Sargent & Go. in \ New York; Robert H. Hawkins, 25 years of \ age, treasurer and secretary of the New Ha- ven Ruffle company of this city, and J. W. Bartlett, p years of age and an attache of ! the office of the Time Telegraph company in | New York
 Leicester Sargent and MT. Hawkins are prominent members of the New Haven gym \ nasium. Mir. Sargent was for several years [ one of the board of directors, and was presi- dent of the association during the years 1880 | and 1881. MT. Hawkins is 8 director and ! also the first vice president of the associa- I ton, having been chosen by unanimous vote for the latter office in December, 1882. THE LATEST.
 MT. Henry G. Newton, the attorney, last Y Swezey, president of the New Haven Ruffle
 company, dated at Falmouth, Mass, giving the information that the body of young Hawkins had positively and unmistakably ! bedn found andsidsntifed at Pocasset, Mass. I The body was found with the clothing on. MT. Newton was requested to telegraph back | to MT. Swezey at Buzzards Bay. Pocasset | is 8 railroad station just beyond Buzzard's Bay. From the tenor of the dispatch it was \ judged that both Mir. SweEey and MT. Par melee, who arrived at Falmouth yesterday | noon, had seen the remains. Another dis patch said that another body had just washed | ashore few miles from West Falmouth, and 1 that both the gentlemen had gone on to see it. Later, news came from the collector of the port of New Bedford, who telegraphed | to Mir. Bullinger, of New York, that another I body had been found. Mir. Bullinger tele- ! graphed the information to Mir. Swezey. l With the receipt of this dispatch it was ad- l judged that four bodies in all had been found. All doubt as to the fate of the young men ! seems to be dissipated in view of the proba- ! ble identification of the remains of one of ! the Sargent young men, and in the light of the dispatch so positive in character as to the
 finding and identification of young Hawkins | remains There seems to be little room for
 doubt but that the entire party has perished | and that the exact particulars of their last | hours will ever remain mystery. Further news from the searching party of
 the.New Haven Yacht club was received last
 night, which is given below. The dispatch ! 1 shows that the party had received such in-
 
 si7e reason for abandoning the search GREENPoRT, N. Y, Aug. 23-S p. m. Special to the JOURNAL AND COURIER. .. The searching party has just arrived here | after thoroughly patrolling Long Island shore ! from Old Field Point to Plum Island. We I now receive the information from West Fal- |
 mouth and will return tomorrow, weather
 permitting. J. G., JR.
 THE BODIES OF YOUNG SARGENT AND HAWKINS. | The following press dispatches were re- ceived at late hour last night, from which |
 it would seem that another of the ill-fated
 yachtmen's bodies is likely to be found soon: WEST FALMOUTH, Mass, Aug. 23.-Mr. Ru- fus Coffin, of Boston, has identified the body of the yachtsman found on the shore at Hog
 leland on Monday as that of young Rupert !
 Sargent of New York, one of the crew of the |
 missing yacht Mystery. Undertaken Lock |
 hard of Boston, will take charge of the re-
 mains. The yachts. that were sent out to |
 search the bay for missing bodies returned |
 this afternoon and reported not any success. WAREHAM, Mass, Aug, 23-The body found on the shore at Pocasset has been l identified as that of R. Fl. Hawkins, treasur- | CT of the New Haven Rufde compahy and ! one of the Mystery crew. A gold watch ta- !
 ken from the body was identified by MT. |
 Swezey, president of the company, as hav- ing belonged to the late treasurer. The | watch was stopped at just $40. People are l patrolling the shores tonight with torches, ! hoping to find other victims of the terrible |
 catastrophe. The excitement is still intense. l
 fisherman has just arrived and reports
 having seen floating body g mile of the |